The American Primitive Paintings Exhibit

About the exhibition

The Triton Museum of Art organized this 1968 exhibition of American paintings for the de Saisset Art Gallery at the University of Santa Clara. The organizer and the actual host are kept distinct; documented paintings include portraits and narrative scenes. Exact surviving examples are George Ropes’s Mount Vernon (1806; oil on canvas) and Erastus Salisbury Field’s Man with Vial (c. 1827; oil on canvas). This is a partial checklist reconstructed from the objects’ museum histories; precise opening and closing days remain unknown.

Also recorded as: The American Primitive Paintings Exhibit, organized by the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California, for de Saisset Art Gallery, University of Santa Clara