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In 1938 The Cellist was "discovered" in a private collection by Edith Halpert, director of the Downtown Gallery in New York. She added the painting to an exhibition in her gallery the same year, and by the time the show was sent on to Washington, the painting was published as belonging to the Phillips Memorial Gallery. Duncan Phillips, who had a strong appreciation of music, must have responded to its musical theme as well as to the pleasing composition. He hung the painting in the company of other painters whom he felt shared Bradley's "primitive" vision, such as Henri Rousseau and Edward Hicks.
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