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Flower Girl in Holland
George Hitchcock · 1887
Provenance
Ownership history
- George Hitchcock, Egmond-aan-Zee, Holland, 1887; Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago, by 1888; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1888.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Chicago, Sixteenth Annual Inter–State Industrial Exposition, Sept. 5–Oct. 20, 1888, cat. 203, as Flower Seller, Holland.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings in the New Galleries, Apr. 5, 1890, cat. 14.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Room XIII, Collection of Paintings from Various Sources, Aug. 1890, cat. 2.
- Art Association of Richmond, IN, Ninth Annual Exhibition of the Art Association of Richmond, Indiana, June 6–20, 1905, cat. 50, as Flower Girl in Holland.
- Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Paintings by Famous Victorian Painters, Nov. 7–Dec. 3, 1938, as Holland Flower Girl.
- Evanston, IL, Scott Hall, Northwestern University, Mar. 18–Apr. 2, 1954.
- Springfield, Illinois State Museum, Nineteenth Century American Paintings: A Collection of the Chicago Art Institute, Mar. 5–Apr. 24, 1966, as Flower Girl in Holland; Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Iowa, May 19–June 5, 1966, Muscatine, Iowa, Laura Musser Art Gallery and Museum, July 24–Oct. 2, 1966, Peoria, Ill., Lakeview Center for the Art and Sciences, Nov. 30–Jan. 8, 1967.
- Detroit Institute of Arts, The Quest for Unity: American Art Between World’s Fairs 1876–1893, Aug. 22–Oct. 30, 1983, cat. 145, as Flower Girl in Holland.
- Shanghai Museum, <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, Sept. 28, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 26.
Literature
Published references
- George Hitchcock, “The Picturesque Quality of Holland,” Scribner’s Magazine (August 1887): 160–68.
- George Hitchcock, “The Picturesque Quality of Holland: Interiors and Bric–a–Brac,” Scribner’s Magazine 5, 2 (Feb. 1889): 162–71.
- Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1889 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1889): 26.
- “George Hitchcock,” Art Amateur 22 (Feb. 1890): 54–56.
- Lionel G. Robinson, “Mr. George Hitchcock and American Art,” Art Journal (London, Oct. 1891): 289–95.
- Lionel G. Robinson, “The Picturesque Quality of Holland: Figures and Costumes,” Scribner’s Magazine 10, 5 (Nov. 1891): 621–29.
- Rilla Jackman, American Arts (Rand McNally and Company, 1892), pl LII.
- Helene L. Postlethwaite, “Some Rising Artists,” Magazine of Art 17 (1893–94): 113–18.
- “Modern Paintings,” Art Amateur 32 (Dec. 1894): 19.
- Charles Francis Browne, “The Permanent Collection in the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago.” Brush and Pencil 2 (Sept. 1898): 252–61, no. 237.
- Florence Levy, ed., American Art Annual (MacMillan and Company, 1898): 141 (ill.).
- Arthur Fish, “George Hitchock: Painter,” Magazine of Art 21 (1898): 577–83.
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