Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
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Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)

Portrait of Mrs. Joseph W. Drexel

Details
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
Portrait of Mrs. Joseph W. Drexel
oil on canvas laid down on board
47 x 37 in. (119.4 x 94 cm.)
Painted circa 1900.
Provenance
The artist.
Estate of the above.
Susan Macdowell Eakins, wife of the artist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Charles Bregler, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Joseph Katz, Baltimore, Maryland.
M. Knoedler & Co., New York.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, acquired from the above, 1961.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1966.
Literature
L. Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work, New York, 1933, p. 191, no. 339.
M. Knoedler & Co., A Loan Exhibition of the Works of Thomas Eakins (1844-1944) Commemorating the Centennial Year of his Birth, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1944, p. 15, no. 60.
L. Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: Retrospective Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1970, p. 71, no. 81.
G. Hendricks, The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins, New York, 1974, pp. 247-48, 323, no. 85, pl. 50, illustrated.
P.D. Rosenzweig, The Thomas Eakins Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 1977, pp. 172-73, illustrated.
J. Wilmerding, "Thomas Eakins' Late Portraits," Arts Magazine, May 1979, pp. 111-12, illustrated.
L. Goodrich, Thomas Eakins, vol. II, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982, pp. 55, 64, 177-79, 288.
J. Wilmerding, Important Information Inside: The Art of John F. Peto and the Idea of Still-Life Painting in Nineteenth-Century America, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1983, pp. 189-90, illustrated.
K.A. Foster, Thomas Eakins Rediscovered: Charles Bregler's Thomas Eakins Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, New Haven, Connecticut, 1997, pp. 210, 280, 443, 455.
Exhibited
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and elsewhere, Thomas Eakins Centennial Exhibition, 1844-1944, April 8-May 14, 1944, no. 93.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., and elsewhere, A Loan Exhibition of the Works of Thomas Eakins (1844-1944) Commemorating the Centennial Year of his Birth, June 5-July 31, 1944, no. 60.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Thomas Eakins: Retrospective Exhibition, September 22-November 21, 1970, no. 81.

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