Honoring the POINT: The Gwynne McDevitt Sporting Dog Collection
By Vicky Moon
What could be more appropriate for this issue of ZEST, than to feature an exhibit from the National Sporting Library & Museum which includes many dogs. This collection of 84 works of art is on loan from museum supporter Gwynne McDevitt, and will be on view through March 23, 2025. A granddaughter of Walter P. Chrysler, founder of the Chrysler Corporation, Ms. McDevitt was the daughter of Col. Edgar William Garbisch and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, famed folk art collectors and philanthropists who donated and bequeathed their collection to numerous institutions. McDevitt grew up spending summers horseback riding and wildfowl shooting at her family’s famed 18th-century Georgian-style, Pokety Farms, on the Little Choptank River in Maryland many of which were included in an incredible auction which this writer covered for several national magazines. Don’t miss this, mark your calendars now.
Details: NationalSporting.org.
Robert Kennedy Abbett (American, 1926–2015)Gwynne at Doubledee Farm, 1989 oil on board, 23 7/8 x 36 inches National Sporting Library & Museum, Estate of Gwynne McDevitt, 2023
James Hardy, Jr. (British, 1832–1889)A Good Day’s Shooting, 1883 oil on canvas, 14 3/8 x 12 1/4 inchesNational Sporting Library & Museum, Estate of Gwynne McDevitt, 2023
Gustav Muss-Arnolt (German/American, 1858–1927)English Setter Head Study, 1913 oil on canvas, 9 1/8 x 8 3/8 inchesNational Sporting Library & Museum, Estate of Gwynne McDevitt, 2023
Percival Leonard Rosseau (American, 1859–1937)English Setters Drinking from a River, 1920 oil on canvas, 34 x 28 1/4 inchesNational Sporting Library & Museum, Estate of Gwynne McDevitt, 2023
Edmund Henry Osthaus (German/American, 1858–1928) Setters on Point, n.d. oil on canvas, 26 1/4 x 40 1/4 inchesNational Sporting Library & Museum, Estate of Gwynne McDevitt, 2023
Wright Barker (English, 1864–1941)Gordon Setter Head Study, 1884 Oil on board, 9 ¼ x 7 ½ inchesNational Sporting Library & Museum, Estate of Gwynne McDevitt, 2023
Robert Cleminson (British, 1844–1903)English and Gordon Setter in the Highlands, 19th century Oil on canvas, 16 x 24 1/8 inchesNational Sporting Library & Museum, Estate of Gwynne McDevitt, 2023
Robert Kennedy Abbett (American, 1926–2015)The Shootist, Duchess, and Domino, c.1997 oil on board, 21 5/8 x 36 1/2 inchesSporting Library & Museum, Estate of Gwynne McDevitt, 2023
Percival Leonard Rosseau (American, 1859–1937)English Setter on Point, n.d. watercolor heightened with gouache on paper, size 8 3/4 x 12 1/8 inchesNational Sporting Library & Museum, Estate of Gwynne McDevitt, 2023
