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For Sunday's Dinner
William Michael Harnett · 1888
Provenance
Ownership history
- John Hedges, Philadelphia, (not documented). Joann Kolodny, Baltimore, by 1953. L. Manuel Hendler, Baltimore; Baltimore Museum of Art, from 1957 to 1958; M. Knoedler and Company, New York City, 1958; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1958.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, National Academy of Design, Seventh Autumn Exhibition, Nov. 19–Dec. 15, 1888, cat. 44.
- Phliadelphia, Wanamaker's Department Store, late 1888/early 1889.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
- La Jolla Museum of Art, The Reminiscent Object, Paintings by William Michael Harnett, John Frederick Peto, and John Haberle, July 11–Sept. 19, 1965, cat. 21; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Sept. 28–Oct. 31, 1965.
- Philadelphia, Peale Galleries of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Two Illusionist Painters, William Michael Harnett and John Frederick Peto, Mar. 11–Apr. 17, 1966, cat. 2.
- New York City, Coe Kerr Gallery, One Hundred–Fifty Years of American Still–Life Painting, Apr. 27–May 16, 1970, cat. 32.
- Sacramento, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Munich and American Realism in the Nineteenth Century, Oct. 28–Dec. 10, 1970, cat. 37.
- Cincinnati Art Museum, Munich & American Realism in the 19th Century, Apr. 20–May 28, 1978; Milwaukee Art Center, July 13–Aug. 27, 1978; Sacramento, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Oct. 28–Dec. 10, 1978.
- New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art, William H. Harnett, Mar. 16–June 14, 1992; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum, July 17–Oct. 18, 1992, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Nov. 14, 1992–Feb. 14, 1993, Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Mar. 14–June 13, 1993 (New York only).
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/1399/art-and-appetite-american-painting-culture-and-cuisine"><em>Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine</em></a>, Nov. 10, 2013–Jan. 27, 2014, cat. 23; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Feb. 22–May 18, 2014.
Literature
Published references
- Alfred Frankenstein, After the Hunt, William Harnett and other American Still Life Painters, 1870–1900 (Berkley, University of California Press, 1953), no. 116.
- Frederick A. Sweet, “Two Americans Paint a Still–Life,” Quarterly of The Art Institute of Chicago, 52, 4 (Dec. 1958), 95–99 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 210.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1968), 216.
- William H. Gerdts et al., American Still–Life Painting (Praeger, 1971), pl. XVI.
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, One Hundred Masterpieces (Rand McNally and R.R. Donnelley, 1978), 105 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago. Pocketguide to The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1983), p. 37, no. 51.
- Tom Armstrong, “The New Field–McCormick Galleries in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques, 134, 4 (Oct. 1988), 822–35, pl. XVIII.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Little, Brown, and Company, 1988), 96 (ill.).
- Doreen Bolger et al., William M. Hartnett (Abrams, 1992), 57, 80, 88, 95, 166, 282, pl. 42.
- Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998).
- 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) p. 40 (ill.).
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