Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams by Thomas Eakins
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Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams

Thomas Eakins · 1899

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist, Philadelphia; by descent to his estate and to Susan Macdowell Eakins (1851–1938), Philadelphia, 1916; sold to Babcock Galleries, New York, 1939; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1939.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York City, Kleeman Gallery, Thomas Eakins, Oct. 31–Nov. 25, 1939, cat. 6, as Lady in Black.
  • Milwaukee Art Institute, WI, Six Centuries of Portrait Masterpieces, Oct. 2–Nov. 15, 1942, as Woman in Black, Mary Adeline Williams.
  • IL, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, <em>A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago</em>, June 10–16, 1957, no. 13, as <em>Addie, Woman in Black</em>.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
  • Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Thomas Eakins, A Retrospective Exhibition, Oct. 8–Nov. 12, 1961, cat. 73, as <em>Addie, Woman in Black</em>; <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4169/thomas-eakins">Art Institute of Chicago</a>, Dec. 1, 1961–Jan. 7, 1962; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Feb. 1–Mar. 18, 1962.
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Thomas Eakins, Artist of Philadelphia, May 29–Aug. 1, 1982, cat. 137, as Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams (Addie, Woman in Black); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Sept. 22–Nov. 28, 1982.
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Thomas Eakins, Sept. 30, 2001–Jan. 6, 2002; Paris, Musee d'Orsay, Feb. 3–May 12, 2002, New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 10–Sept. 15, 2002.

Literature

Published references

  • Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late Thomas Eakins, exh. cat., (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1918).
  • “Thomas Eakins 1844–1916,” The Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin, 25, 133 (Mar. 1930), entire issue.
  • Lloyd Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1933).
  • Thomas Eakins, 1844–1916: A Retrospective Exhibition of his Paintings (Baltimore Museum of Art, 1936).
  • “Last of Eakins,” Art Digest 14 (Oct. 1, 1939), 14.
  • J.W.L. “Eakins Reviewed in Two Exhibits,” Art News 38 (Nov. 11, 1939), 11–12.
  • Frederick A. Sweet, “Two Paintings by Thomas Eakins,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 34, 3 (Mar. 1940), 38–40.
  • A Loan Exhibition of the Works of Thomas Eakins, 1844–1944, exh. cat., (M. Knoedler, 1944).
  • Thomas Eakins Centennial Exhibition, 1844–1916, exh. cat., (Carnegie Institute, 1944).
  • Margaret McHenry, The Eakins Who Painted (Weathwood, 1946).
  • National Gallery of Art, Thomas Eakins, A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, 1961), 105, cat. 73 (ill.), as <em>Addie, Woman in Black</em>.
  • Sylvan Schendler, Eakins, (Little, Brown, and Company, 1967).

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