The American Scene including Important Photographs from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation
The American Scene including Important Photographs from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation
Sold by the Art Institute of Chicago
George Fuller
The Gatherer of Simples
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Sold by the Art Institute of Chicago
George Fuller
1822 - 1884
The Gatherer of Simples
signed G. Fuller (lower left)
oil on canvas
36 by 47 7/8 in.
91.4 by 121.6 cm
Executed circa 1880.
Estate of the artist (by 1884)
Mrs. F. D. Kimball, Boston (acquired from the above in May 1844)
Vose Galleries, Boston (by 1922)
Ralph Cudney, Chicago (acquired from the above in May 1922)
[with] Babcock Galleries, New York
William T. Cresmer, Chicago (acquired from the above circa 1936)
Acquired by bequest from the above in 1955 to the present owner
Sidney Dickinson, “George Fuller,” Bay State Monthly, vol. 1, Boston, no. 6, June 1884, pp. 375–6
The Art Amateur, vol. 11, New York, June 1884, n.p.
Charles DeKay, “George Fuller, Painter,” Magazine of Art, New York, 1889, p. 350
William Dean Howells, Josiah B. Millet, & John Greenleaf Whittier, George Fuller: His Life and Works, Boston, 1884, p. 91 (as The Simple Gatherer)
Boston Journal, 15 March 1884, George Fuller Papers, reel 610, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Boston Journal, 22 March 1884, George Fuller Papers, reel 610, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Charles H. Caffin, American Masters of Painting, Garden City, 1913, illustrated (as The Simple Gatherer)
William H. Downes, “George Fuller’s Pictures,” International Studio, vol. 75, New York, July 1922, pp. 264, 270, illustrated
“Fuller Centennial An Attractive Show,” The Art News, vol. 21, New York, no. 5, April 14, 1923
International Studio, vol. 77, New York, May 1923, no. 145
“The Babcock Art Galleries Snap Back,” Art Digest, New York, 15 March 1936, p. 14, illustrated
Royal Cortissoz, “The Centennial of George Fuller: An Exhibition of His Works at the Metropolitan Museum,” New York Tribune, New York, 15 April 1923, p. 7, illustrated
Letter from William T. Cresmer to Daniel Catton Rich, 1 June 1955
William I. Homer and David M. Robb Jr., “Paintings by George Fuller in American Museums and Public Collections,” The Art Quarterly, vol. 24, Denver, no. 3, Autumn 1961, no. 290
Sarah Burns, “George Fuller: The Hawthorne of Our Art,” Winterthur Portfolio, vol. 18, Chicago, 1983, pp. 124–7, 134, 136, 143, 145, nos. 2, 3, illustrated