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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1948.15.3
People
Cecilia Beaux, American (Philadelphia, PA 1855 - 1942 Philadelphia, PA)
Title
Study for a Portrait of Dr. Henry Sturgis Drinker
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1923
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229496

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvasboard
Dimensions
22.7 x 17.7 cm (8 15/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
framed: 25.7 x 20.3 x 1.9 cm (10 1/8 x 8 x 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: back of board, black ink, in artist's hand: Study for / portrait of / Dr. Henry S. Drinker / C. B.
  • stamp: back of board, black ink, stamped: M. H. HARTMANN / DEALER IN / Artists' Materials / Pictures, Frames, Etc. / 65 WEST [58th?] STREET / Phone Circle 0223

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
By descent from the artist to her nephew, Dr. Cecil K. Drinker; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1948.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Cecil K. Drinker
Accession Year
1948
Object Number
1948.15.3
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • The Paintings and Drawings of Cecilia Beaux, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA, 1955), p. 47
  • Cecilia Beaux: Portrait of an Artist, exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA, 1974), no. 75, repr. p. 120
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 40, cat. no. 16

Exhibition History

  • Cecilia Beaux: Portrait of an Artist, Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadephia, 09/06/1974 - 10/20/1974; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 01/21/1975 - 03/02/1975

Verification Level

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