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20th Century Painting

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
1953
20th Century
28 in. x 40 in. (71.12 cm x 101.6 cm)


Emma Serena (Queena) Dillard Stovall (aka Queena Stovall)
(Lynchburg, VA, 1887 - 1980, Amherst County, VA)
Primary


Medium and Support: Oil on Canvas
Credit Line: Purchase made possible by special fund, 1965
Accession Number: M.1965.1


Bibliography: Object bibliography:
Eff, Elaine. Folk Art: The Heart of America. New York: Museum of American Folk Art, 1978.

Little, Pricilla Cortelyou and Robert C. Vaughan. A New Perspective: Southern Women's Cultural History from the Civil War to Civil Rights. Charlottesville: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 1989, p. 38.

Presenting the Works Of Queena Stovall.  Lynchburg, VA: Lynchburg Fine Arts Art Center, 1956.

Queena Stovall: An Exhibition of Her Work. Lynchburg, VA: Lynchburg College, 1975.

Reflections of Faith: Religious Folk Art in America. NY: IBM Gallery of Science and Art (catalogue), 1983-1984.

Rothermel, Barbara. "Queena Stovall: Reflections of a Country Life," Folk Art vol. 24, no.1 (1999): 38.

Schall, Ellen M., John Wilmerding and David M. Sokol. American Art: American Vision, Paintings from a Century of Collecting. Lynchburg, VA: Maier Museum of Art, 1990, pp. 144-145.

Sokol, David M. American Art in the Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia," Antiques vol. 136, no. 5 (1989): 1146.

Weatherford, Claudine. The Art of Queena Stovall: Images of Country Life. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1986, plate 2.

Williams, Mary Frances. Catalogue of the Collection of American Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College: A Selection of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977, p. 154-155.

Artist bibliography:
Jones, Louis C. and Agnes Halsey Jones. Queena Stovall: Artist of the Blue Ridge Piedmont. Cooperstown: New York State Historical Association, 1974.

Rothermel, Barbara. "Queena Stovall: Reflections of a Country Life," Folk Art 24.1 (1999): 38-45.

Weatherford, Claudine. The Art of Queena Stovall: Images of Country Life. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986.

Exhibition: "Presenting the Works of Queena Stovall," Lynchburg Art Center, VA, April 15-27, 1956.

"Virginia Artist 1957," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, March 2-April 28, 1957.

"17th Annual Spring Purchase Exhibition," Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA, May 12-June 16, 1957.

"Paintings by Queena Stovall," R-MWC, February 7-26, 1965.

"Paintings from the Collection of American Painting at Randolph-Macon Woman's College," circulated to Wilmington, DE; Oxford, PA; Montclair; Greensboro; Louisville; and Nashville, October 10, 1966-July 30, 1967.

"Queena Stovall: An Exhibition of Her Work," Dillard Gallery, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, VA; Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Colonial Williamsburg, VA; and the New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown, October 6, 1974-September 30, 1975.

"Folk Art: The Heart of America," Museum of American Folk Art, New York, Jun 26-October 15, 1978.

"Paintings: Queena Stovall," Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, December 13, 1980-January 4, 1981.

"Reflections of Faith: Religious Folk Art in America," IBM Gallery of Arts and Sciences, for the Museum of American Folk Art, New York, December 6, 1983-January 21, 1984.

"A Share of Honor: Virginia Women 1600-1945," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk; and Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, November 10, 1984-June 1, 1985.

"The Art of Queena Stovall: Genre Paintings of the Blue Ridge Piedmont," Maier Museum of Art, September 8-October 13, 1985.

"American Art: American Vision, Paintings from a Century of Collecting," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, January 25-March 4, 1990; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, March 17-April 29, 1990; Tampa Museum of Art, May 14-July 8, 1990; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, November 24, 1992-January 17, 1993; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., April 24-July 11, 1993.

"Women's Work," Maier Museum of Art, January 3-August 17, 2003.

"Queena Stovall: Reflections of a Country Life," Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College, January 19- April 12, 2009.

Provenance: R-MWC Art Collection. Purchase, 1965.

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