Civil War Regalia of Major Levi Gheen McCauley by George Cope
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Civil War Regalia of Major Levi Gheen McCauley

George Cope · 1887

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. 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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