This lithograph, "View of West Point" depicts a picturesque view of West Point around 1830, showcasing the landscape and early architecture of the military academy.
The Garbisch Collection was assembled by Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch. It was renowned for its focus on American primitive art and folk art.
Col. Edgar William Garbisch was born in 1899 in Laporte, Indiana. He entered West Point in 1921 and was an All-America football player as a center at the United States Military Academy in 1922, 1923, and 1924. He was elected to the National Football Hall of Fame in 1954 and the Helms Athletic Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame in 1959 because of his Army play and his participation in the first East-West Shriners Game in San Francisco in 1925, shortly before he resigned from the Army. In 1942, Col. Garbisch had his business career interrupted by WWII when he returned to active duty with the Corps. of Engineers. He was a retired corporate executive that passed away at the age of 80 in Cambridge, Maryland in 1979.
Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, was the second daughter of Walter P. Chrysler, the founder of the Chrysler Corporation. She studied art and languages in Paris before getting married. Mrs. Garbisch was a major collector of American Folk Art, collecting 3,000 early American paintings and numerous other examples of American folk art. she began collecting in the 1930s while her husband pursued a career. Mrs. Garbisch was well known in the New York area for her charity work as well as her art collection. She passed away hours after her husband in Cambridge, Maryland at the age of 72.
Colonel Garbisch and Ms. Chrysler were married in 1930 and had two children.
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Measures: 19.5 inches x 23 inches
