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1898 · Art Institute of Chicago

Dorothea and Francesca

Cecilia BeauxWikidata

painting by Cecilia Beaux

Wander from here
Date
1898Wikidata
Art Institute of Chicago: 1898
Medium
Oil on canvasArt Institute of Chicago
Wikidata: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions
203.5 × 116.8 cmArt Institute of Chicago
Wikidata: 203.5 × 116.8 cm
Gallery
Gallery 273Art Institute of Chicago
Genre
portraitWikidata
Materials
oil paint, canvasWikidata
Inventory no.
1921.109Wikidata
Credit line
A. A. Munger CollectionArt Institute of Chicago

Provenance

Where it has been

  1. 1922 –
    Art Institute of Chicago
    high confidenceWikidata · collection

Exhibition historyArt Institute of Chicago

New York, National Academy of Design, Loan Exhibition of Portraits, Dec. 14, 1898–Jan. 14, 1899, cat. 24, as Dorothea and Francesca. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Sixty–Eighth Annual Exhibition, Jan. 16–Feb. 25, 1899, cat. 92, as Dorothea and Francesca. London, The International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers, A Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures at the Second Exhibition, May–July 1899, cat. 150. Buffalo, Pan–American Exposition, Exhibition of Fine Arts, Exhibition of Fine Arts, May 1–Nov. 1, 1901, cat. 686. Providence, Tilden–Thurber Company, “Green Gallery,” May 1902. New York, Durand–Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Cecilia Beaux, Mar. 3–14, 1903, cat. 14. Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Third Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, Apr. 30–Aug. 30, 1908, cat. 10, as Dancing Children, incorrectly cited as lent by Richard Watson Gilder, Esq. New York, NY instead of Cecilia Beaux; St. Louis Museum of the Fine Arts, Sept. 15–?, 1908. Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Miss Cecilia Beaux, Feb. 24–Mar. 17, 1912, cat. 14, incorrectly cited as lent by Mrs. Gilder instead of Cecilia Beaux. New York, Women’s Cosmopolitan Club, Jan. ?–Feb. 9, 1914. San Francisco, Panama–Pacific International Exposition, Department of Fine Arts, Feb. 20–Dec. 4, 1915, cat. 3033. Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, June 2–Sept. 6, 1921, cat. 6, as The Dancing Lesson. Art Institute of Chicago, Thirty–fourth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Nov. 3–Dec. 11, 1921, cat. 15, as The Dancing Lesson. Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery, Portraits by Cecilia Beaux, Landscapes by Chauncey Foster Ryder and Max Kuehne, Wood–Block Prints by Gustave Baumann, Sculpture by Bourdelle, Lachaise, Derujinsky and Ripley, Dec. 1923, cat. 5, as The Dancing Lesson. New York, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Exhibition of Paintings by Cecilia Beaux, Nov. 14, 1935–May 3, 1936, cat. 16, as The Dancing Lesson. Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, Jan. 5–Mar. 3, 1936, cat. 131, as The Dancing Lesson. Scott Hall, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Apr. 2–9, 1954, as Dancing Lesson. Chicago, Charles A. Stevens Store, Mar. 27–May 27, 1956, as Dancing Lesson. Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center, Cecilia Beaux: Portrait of an Artist, Sept. 6–Oct. 20, 1974, cat. 57; : Indianapolis Museum of Art, as The Dancing Lesson. Mansfield Art Center, Ohio, The American Figure, H. Daniel Butts III, Mar. 11– Apr. 8, 1984, cat. 22. Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Cecilia Beaux, American Figure Painter, May 12–Sept. 9, 2007; Tacoma Art Museum, Sept. 29, 2007–Jan. 6, 2008, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Feb. 2–Apr. 13, 2008 (Atlanta only). Detroit Institute of Art, Dance! American Art, 1830–1960, Mar. 20–June 12, 2016, cat. 2; Denver Art Museum, July 10–Oct. 9, 2016; AK, Bentonville, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Oct. 22, 2016–Jan. 16, 2017.
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