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Olivia Simes Morris
James Peale · 1814
Provenance
Ownership history
- Olivia Simes Morris (1790–1838), Philadelphia; by descent to her daughter, Elizabeth Morris Sellers (1810–1895), Philadelphia; by descent to her son, Alfred Harrold Sellers (1838–1911), Philadelphia, then Los Angeles; by descent to his son, Frank Harrold Sellers (1864–1939), Chicago; by descent to his spouse, Mary Morley Sellers (1870–1940), Chicago; by descent to her estate, 1940; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1940.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Carson Pirie Scott & Co.: window display, Apr. 14–30, 1952.
- Springfield, Illinois State Museum, Nineteenth–Century American Paintings: a Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 5–Apr. 24, 1966; Iowa, Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, May 19–June 5, 1966; Muscatine, Iowa, Laura Musser Art Gallery and Museum, July 24–Oct. 2, 1966; Peoria, Illinois, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Nov. 30, 1966–Jan. 8, 1967.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/6239/american-art-of-the-colonies-and-early-republic-furniture-paintings-and-silver-from-the-private-collections-in-the-chicago-area"><em>American Art of the Colonies and Early Republic: Furniture, Paintings and Silver from the Private Collections in the Chicago Area </em></a>, July 17–Sept. 13, 1971, cat. 88.
Literature
Published references
- David A. Hanks and Charles E. Buckley, <em>American Art of the Colonies and Early Republic: Furniture, Paintings and Silver from Private Collections in the Chicago Area</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1971), 69, cat. 88 (ill.).
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