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Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer (Mary Anthony)
John Singer Sargent · 1880
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, London; given to Mary Anthony Dyer (born 1848; also Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer), 1880. Martin A. Ryerson (1856–1932), Chicago, by 1915; sold to the Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1915; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1915.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Special Exhibition of the Works in the Friends of American Art Collection, May 15–June 15, 1919, cat. 8.
- New York, Grand Central Galleries, Retrospective Exhibition of Important Works of John Singer Sargent, Feb. 23–Apr. 6, 1924, cat. 49.
- Milwaukee Art Institute, <em>An Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art</em>, Mar. 1–29, 1925, cat. 31, as <em>Mrs. Dyer</em>.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Survey of American Painting from the Permanent Collection of the Art Institute, July 21–Oct. 9, 1932.
- Museum of Modern Art, American Painting and Sculpture 1862–1932, Oct. 31, 1932–Jan. 31, 1933, cat. 90.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 476.
- De Young Memorial Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Exhibition of American Painting, June 7–July 7, 1935, cat. 194.
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Problems of Portraiture, Oct. 16–Nov. 28, 1937; Washington, DC, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Dec. 6, 1937–Jan. 3, 1938.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Art in Our Times, May–Oct. 1939, cat. 46.
- Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Institute, Survey of American Painting, Oct. 24–Dec. 15, 1940, cat. 194.
- Milwaukee Art Museum, Six Centuries of Portrait Masterpieces, Oct. 2–Nov. 15, 1942.
- Springfield, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, Fifteen Fine Paintings, Oct. 7–Nov. 7, 1948.
Literature
Published references
- Milwaukee Art Institute, <em>Catalogue of an Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art</em>, exh. cat. (Milwaukee Art Institute, 1925), n.p., cat. 31 (ill.), as <em>Mrs. Dyer</em>.
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 74.
- Annelise K. Madsen, et al., <em>John Singer Sargent and Chicago's Gilded Age</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), 17,
- 26–27, 69, 76, 121, 133, 203, 209, 211, cat. 8, fig. 6 (ill.).
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