Inscribed "GENERAL WASHINGTON/NOBLEST OF MEN/ HIS HOUSE HIS HORSE HIS CHERRY TREE & HIM". Dimensions: 30 1/2 x 53 in. Provenance:
Private Collection, Richmond Virginia Olde Hope Antiques, New Hope, PA., circa 1985 Kristina Barbara Johnson Collection Christie's, New York, Important Americana, "Favorites From The Collection of Kristina Barbara Johnson" January 24, 2014, lot 192 Sold for $32,400 (incl. BP) C. L. Prickett Antiques, Yardley, PA. Distinguished New York Collection of American Furniture and Folk Art. Literature:
Leslie Linsley, Hooked Rugs: an American Folk Art (New York, 1992), pp. 84-85. (Illustrated and discussed) Barbara Johnson and Wendy Lavitt, American Classics: Hooked Rugs from the Barbara Johnson Collection (Princeton, 1998), p. 63. (illustrated and discussed) Wendy Moonan, ANTIQUES; Hooked Rugs Snag Buyers of Folk Art (New York Times, February 20, 1998), section E, p. 40. "The finest rug in Ms. Johnson's collection is a hooked tribute to George Washington" (New York Times, ANTIQUES; Hooked Rugs Snag Buyers of Folk Art by Wendy Moonan, February 20, 1998). Exhibited:
Princeton, New Jersey, the Squibb Gallery, American Classics: Hooked Rugs from the Collection of Barbara Johnson, December 22, 1998 - January 29, 1989.
Condition
In a remarkable state of preservation