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Magnolias on Light Blue Velvet Cloth
Martin Johnson Heade · 1885–95
Provenance
Ownership history
- Private collection, Chestnut Hill, Penn., by 1975; Spanierman Gallery, New York Cit, 1983; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York City, M. Knoedler and Company, The American Vision, Paintings 1825–1875, Oct. 8–Nov. 2, 1968, cat. 43.
Literature
Published references
- Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade (Yale University Press, 1975), p. 276, no. 331.
- A Record of Sharing (Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), p. 24 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1983–1984, (Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), p. 9, fig. 8.
- Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Little, Brown, and Company, 1988), p. 92 (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).
- 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. 38 (ill.).
- Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection, (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2017) p. 88.
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