Mrs. Potter Palmer by Anders Zorn
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Mrs. Potter Palmer

Anders Zorn · 1893

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Commissioned by Mrs. Potter Palmer (died 1918), Chicago, 1893; by descent in the Palmer family; given to the Art Institute, 1922.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Sarasota, Fla., John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Palmer Family Collections, February 23-March 24, 1963.
  • Mora, Sweden, Zorn Museum, Anders Zorn, June 1-August 20, 1989; Kiel, Germany, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, September 3-October 22, 1989; Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, November 1, 1989-January 10, 1990.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago’s Dream, A World’s Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago 1893-1993, 1993, no cat. no.
  • Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Anders Zorn: till ögats fröjd och nationens förgyllning, September 15-December 11, 1994, cat. 59; Göteborgs Konstmuseum, December 26,1994-March 26, 1995.
  • Chicago History Museum, Bertha Honoré Palmer, May 23, 2009- January 3, 2010, no cat.
  • Boston, Isabella Steward Gardener Museum, Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America, February 28 – May 13, 2013, cat. 4.
  • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Anders Zorn: Sweden's Master Painter, November 9, 2013-February 13, 2014; New York; National Academy Museum, February 26-May 25, 2014.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, John Singer Sargent and Chicago's Gilded Age, June 27-Septembet 30, 2018.

Literature

Published references

  • Karl Asplund, Anders Zorn: His Life and Work (London, 1921), p. 42.
  • G. Boethius, Zorn: tecknaren, målaren, etsaren, sculptören (Stockholm, 1949), p. 547, fig. 156.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 488.
  • Chicago Historical Society Quarterly 3, 7 (Spring 1953), pp. 214 (ill.), 197.
  • Ishbel Ross, Silhouette in Diamonds: The Life of Mrs. Potter Palmer (New York, 1960), p. 96, ill.
  • Jeanne Madeline Weimann, The Fair Woman (Chicago, 1981), p. 579-81 (ill.).
  • Douglas K. S. Hyland and Hans Henrik Brummer, Zorn: Paintings, Graphics, and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Birmingham Museum of Art, 1986), p. 24, ill. 10.
  • Hans Henrik Brummer, ZornMCMLXXXIX, exh. cat. (Mora, Zornsamlingarna, 1989), no. 67 (ill.).
  • Margaret Carroll, “Art Institute Owes Much To 1890s Patrons,” Chicago Tribune (July 15, 1990), ill.
  • Brigitta Sandtröm, Portraits by Anders Zorn, exh. cat. (Mora, Zornsamlingarna, 1990), p. 52 (ill.).
  • Colin B. Bailey, “Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg),” Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting. New Haven: Yale University Press and The Frick Collection, 2012. p. 128, fig. 4.
  • Oliver Tostmann, ed., Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America, exh. cat. (London: Paul Holberton, 2013), 76, 89–90 (ill.).

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