ANTIQUE 1882 AMERICAN GEORGE FULLER DEPICTS 1857/58 ALABAMA SLAVE CABIN PAINTING

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An exceedingly rare 1882 oil on canvas painting by American artist George Fuller (1822 - 1844) of the interior of an Alabama slave cabin in 1857 or 1858 titled "Interior of a Negro Cabin" measuring approximately 20 x 24 inches. Fuller's works are owned by major institutions such as the Smithsonian, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and other major museums. There are few depictions of slavery by American artists, especially in oils. Third listed picture is for comparison purposes only. See more details and my research below. Thanks for looking.Oil on Canvas20 x 24 inchesStable craquelure, grime, and convex indention to the right of seated, relined canvas with clear glue evidence en verso, gold frame paint remnant lower right, foldover upper left and other minor blemishesSigned G Fuller lower leftEn verso has early 20th century paper label "Interior of Negro Cabin, Fuller, Museum of Fine Arts Boston April 24, 1886"[error should be 1884] cut paper label with first three letters legible "No. 292? picture" and painted in red ink, "S.L. 1130"Created in 1882 (based on an 1858 sketch of an Alabama Interior scene)Authenticated through comparison to published photograph from the Raydon Gallery, New York, contained on page 58 of "IMAGES OF SLAVERY:George Fuller's Depictions of the Antebellum South." Sarah Burns, The American Art Journal (Summer 1983):35-60Standing individual is holding a chicken with the subjects reflecting the light from the fireplaceA scarce depiction of slavery in Alabama in the 1850sGeorge Fuller Deerfield, Mass. 1822-1884 Brookline, Mass. George Fuller was born in 1822 on his father's farm in Deerfield, Massachusetts. He probably received artistic encouragement from his aunt, uncle, and half-brother, all of whom were painters. Initially, however, he worked for a short time as a clerk in Boston and spent several years (1837-1839) on a railroad surveying expedition in Illinois and Ohio. Returning home, he attended three terms at the Deerfield Academy before moving to Boston in 1840 to launch his career as an artist.After a short, unfruitful experimentation with the daguerreotype process, Fuller became an itinerant portrait painter, traveling in upstate New York with his half-brother and aunt. In 1842 he spent several months studying in Albany with sculptor Henry Kirke Brown, a friend from Deerfield whom he had met on the surveying trip. When Brown left for Italy, Fuller returned to Massachusetts, joining the Boston Artists' Association in 1843. For the next five years he executed portrait commissions, dividing his time between Boston and the interior of the state. He then moved to New York City, where he registered in the antique school of the National Academy of Design in 1848. He became an associate member of the Academy in 1853.His years in New York and Brooklyn (to which he moved by 1852) were interrupted by occasional summer trips to Deerfield and three excursions to the southern states, where he sought portrait work and made a series of genre sketches, with particular attention to the slave population. At the time, his circle of New York friends included adherents to the American Pre-Raphaelite movement, but aside from a characteristic carefulness of execution, his work does not seem to have been greatly influenced by Ruskinian precepts. Fuller's hitherto undistinguished career came to a halt, however, when his father died in 1859. The artist decided to move to Deerfield to manage the family farm, but he first took a six-month tour of Europe in 1860. Upon his return, he married Agnes Gordon Higginson and settled down to raise cranberries and tobacco.Fuller intended his farming career to be short, but he ended by remaining at Deerfield for fifteen years, painting little and exhibiting only infrequently. In 1875, however, the price of tobacco fell and he was forced to declare bankruptcy. Fuller's "second" career began the next year, when he exhibited a group of paintings in Boston in an effor. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 63907-1707

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