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Bust of Mary Harris Thompson, MD
Daniel Chester French · 1902
Provenance
Ownership history
- Commissioned by the Friends of Mary Harris Thompson, Chicago, 1902 [Schultz 2001, 879]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1903; permanently lent to the Mary Thompson Hospital, Chicago, 1929; returned to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1992.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- William M. R. French, <em>Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, and Other Objects in the Museum</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), 77, cat. 964, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t59c9q90w"> https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t59c9q90w</a>.
- George William Eggers, <em>Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings: Part I: Architecture and Sculpture</em>, vol. 1 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 80, cat. 964, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015036764952">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015036764952</a>.
- Adele Hast, "Thompson, Mary Harris," in <em>Women Building Chicago, 1790–1990: A Biographical Dictionary</em>, ed. Rima Lunin Schultz (Indiana University Press, 2001), 879, <a href="https://archive.org/details/womenbuildingchi0000unse">https://archive.org/details/womenbuildingchi0000unse</a>.
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