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Civil War Regalia of Major Levi Gheen McCauley
George Cope · 1887
Provenance
Ownership history
- Commissioned by Levi Gheen McCauley, West Chester, PA; by descent to his nephew, Louis G. McCauley, Binghampton, NY, by 1922; by descent to his son Robert G. McCauley; Schwarz, Philadelphia, by 1997; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2000.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Philadelphia, Bailey, Banks & Biddle, Oct. 1887.
- Greensburg, PA, Westmoreland Museum of Art, Penn's Promise: Still–Life Painting in Pennsylvania, 1898–1930, 1988, cat. 13, as Civil War Accoutrements.
- Shanghai Museum, <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, Sept. 28, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 4.
Literature
Published references
- Robert Devlin Schwarz, "150 Years of Philadelphia Still–Life painting," Schwarz Philadelphia (1997) no. 74 (ill.).
- Sarah E. Kelly, “The Civil War Regalia of Major Levi Gheen McCauley,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 1 (2004): 20–21 (color ill.).
- Clare Kunny and Andrew Walker, “Introduction,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 1 (2001): 4–6, (ill.).
- Judith A. Barter, "True to the Senses and False in Its Essence: Still–Life and Trompe l'Oeil Painting in Victorian America," Museum Studies 31, 1 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2005): 42 (ill.).
- Yang Zhigang, ed., <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, exh. cat. (Shanghai Book and Painting Press, 2018), cat. 4.
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