About This Artwork

Joshua Johnson
American, c. 1770-after 1825

Mrs. Andrew Bedford Bankson and Son, Gunning Bedford Bankson, c. 1803/05

Oil on canvas
81.3 x 71.1 cm (38 x 32 in.)
Restricted gifts of Robin and Timm Reynolds and Jill Zeno; Bulley and Andrews, Edna Graham, Love Galleries, Mrs. Eric Oldberg, Ratcliffe Foundation, and Quinn E. Delaney funds; Walter Aitken, Dr. Julian Archie, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Herst, Jay W. McGreevy, John W. Puth, Stone Foundation, and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick G. Wacker endowments; through prior acquisitions of the George F. Harding Collection and Ruth Helgeson, 1998.315

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Andrea D. Barnwell and Kirsten P. Buick, “A Portfolio of Works by African American Artists Continuing the Dialogue: A Work in Progress,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, 2 (1999), p. 185.

Andrew J. Walker, “Portfolio,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, 2 (1999), p. 189, no. 1.

Margaret Rose Vendryes, “Race Identity/ Identifying Race: Robert S. Duncanson and Nineteenth-Century American Painting, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 1 (2001), pp. 82-99, fig. 3.