Riter Fitzgerald

1. The artist, Philadelphia; given to Riter Fitzgerald (1844–1911), Philadelphia, 1895; by descent to Geraldine Maude Hubbard (born 1894; also Mrs. Jacob K. Spare), Philadelphia, 1911; sold to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1930; sold to M. Knoedler and Company, New York, 1950; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Philadelphia, Earles’ Galleries, Eakins Exhibition, 1876.
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Sixty–fifth Annual Exhibition, Dec. 23, 1895–Feb. 22, 1896, cat. 112, as Portrait of Riter Fitzgerald, Esq.
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late Thomas Eakins, Dec. 23, 1917–Jan. 13, 1918, cat. 112, as Portrait: Riter Fitzgerald, Critic.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Thomas Eakins 1844–1916, 1930, cat. 76.
• Pittsburg, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Thomas Eakins, 1844–1916: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Apr. 26–June 1, 1944, cat. 23.
• New York, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Jan. 17–Feb. 16, 1958.
• 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, Smithsonian Institution, Thomas Eakins: A Retrospective Exhibition, Oct. 8–Nov. 12, 1961, cat. 65; Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 1, 1961–Jan. 7, 1962, and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Feb. 1–Mar. 18, 1962.
• New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, A Loan Exhibition of the Works of Thomas Eakins, 1844–1944, Sep–Nov. 1970.
• San Marino, Calif., Huntington Museum, July 10, 1986–Apr. 17, 1987.

• Riter Fitzgerald, “A Great Exhibition,” Philadelphia Evening Item, Dec. 22, 1895, 8.
• “Industrial Art,” Philadelphia Evening Item, Oct. 8, 1895, f.p.
• “The Academy,” Philadelphia Evening Item, Dec. 23,1895, f.p.
• “Thomas Eakins,” Philadelphia Evening Item, May 12, 1896, f.p.
• “Riter Fitzgerald Dies on Train,” Philadelphia Sunday Item, Mar. 5, 1911, f.p.
• N.N., “The Thomas Eakins Exhibition,” Nation 106 (Feb. 18, 1918), 217–18.
• Alan Burroughs, “Catalogue of Work by Thomas Eakins,” Arts (June 1924), 328–33.
• “Thomas Eakins 1844–1916,” Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin 25, 133 (Mar. 1930).
• Lloyd Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1933), ill.
• Thomas Eakins, 1844–1916: A Retrospective Exhibition of his Paintings, exh. cat. (Baltimore Museum of Art, 1936).
• Roland McKinney, Thomas Eakins (Crown Publishers, 1942), 72.
• Margaret McHenry, The Eakins Who Painted (Oreland, Penn., Weathwood, 1946).

Study for "William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River"

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams

Art Institute of Chicago

The Zither Player

Art Institute of Chicago

Knitting

Art Institute of Chicago

Spinning

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for Artist and His Father Hunting Reed-Birds

Art Institute of Chicago

Thomas Eakins

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for "Swimming"

Art Institute of Chicago

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