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John Nicholson
Charles Willson Peale · 1790
Provenance
Ownership history
- The Nicholson Family. Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison, by 1952; given by them to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1952.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, Two Hundred Years of American Painting, Mar. 8–Apr. 3, 1955, no. 7 (ill. 7).
- Detroit Institute of Arts, The Peale Family: Three Generations of American Artists, Jan. 18–Mar. 5, no. 42 (ill. p. 59).
- Utica, NY, Munson–Williams–Proctor Institute, Mar. 26–May 7, 1967.
- Chapel Hill, N.C., The William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, The Age of Dunlap: The Arts of the Young Republic, Nov. 1–29, 1968.
- Harrisburg, Pa., State Museum of Pennsylvania, The Commonwealth and the Constitution, May 1, 1987–Feb. 28, 1988, no. cat. published.
Literature
Published references
- Charles Coleman Sellers, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 59 (1969), p. 74.
- Carl B. Lechner, Erie: Link to the Great Lakes (Erie County Historical Society, 1994), p. 21 ill.
- 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).
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