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Man with a Tune Book: Mr. Cook (?), (painting). Artist:  Field, Erastus Salisbury, 1805-1900, painter. Title:  Man with a Tune Book: Mr. Cook (?), (painting). Other Titles:  Nathaniel Cook (1811-70), (painting). Dates:  ca. 1838. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  35 x 29 in. (89.1 x 73.8 cm) Inscription:  (On tune book, left:) OLD HUNDRED L. M. (On tune book, right:) EASTPORT C. M. Description:  Three-quarter-length seated portrait of a man, possibly Mr. Cook, holding a book of music in his lap. His right arm rests on the back of a sofa. At left, a window looks out onto a landscape. Subject:  Portrait male -- Cook, -- Knee length Object -- Written Matter -- Book Object -- Written Matter -- Sheet Music Object Type:  Painting Owner:  National Gallery of Art, Fourth Street & Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20565 Accession Number: 1978.80.6 (2740) Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of McCondack, Thomas, West Lebanon, New Hampshire Harding, Winifred, Woodstock, Vermont French, Reginald, Amherst, Massachusetts Thacher, Thurston, Hyde Park, New York Gift of Garbisch, Edgar William & Bernice Chrysler, Remarks:  Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin, V. 28, No. 4, 1963, no. 31 lists title as "Nathaniel Cook." References:  Chotner, Deborah, "American Naive Paintings," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1992. National Gallery of Art, 1988, 1990. Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin, V. 28, No. 4, 1963, no. 31. Black, Mary, "Erastus Salisbury Field: 1805-1900," Springfield, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1984. Illustration:  Black, Mary, "Erastus Salisbury Field: 1805-1900," Springfield, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1984, fig. 29. Chotner, Deborah, "American Naive Paintings," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1992, pg. 127. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 81320376   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 81320376 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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