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Thomas Eakins

Annie C. Lochrey Husson (Mrs. Louis Husson), c. 1905

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 61.1 x 50.9 cm (24 1/16 x 20 1/16 in.)

framed: 79.4 x 69.2 x 7 cm (31 1/4 x 27 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Katharine Husson Horstick

Accession Number

1957.2.2

Artists / Makers

Thomas Eakins (artist) American, 1844 - 1916

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Inscription

upper right: T.E.; on reverse: TO KITTY HUSSON / FROM HER FRIEND / THOMAS EAKINS

Provenance

The sitter's daughter, Katharine Husson Horstick [Mrs. Simon M. Horstick, d. 1956], Hatboro, Pennsylvania, c. 1905, at least by 1930; bequest 1957 to NGA.

Associated Names

Horstick, Simon M., Mrs.

Technical Summary

Painted on a medium-weight, plain-weave fabric that was commercially prepared with a thin, white ground before the fabric was stretched, the painting is unlined and secured to its original four-member, mortise-and-tenon stretcher, which has a damaged paper label identifying the colormen: "F. WEBER & CO. / Succe[ssor to JANE]N[TZKY &] WEBER / 1125 CHESTNUT [STREET,] PHILADELPHIA. / BRANCH HOU[SES:] / [ST. LOUIS, MO., 709 L]ocust St. / [BALTIMORE, MD., 5] N. [Charles] St. / ---- " The white ground is visible in places, perhaps because of abrasion from a past varnish removal. There is discolored inpainting in the face and background, and the varnish is uneven and discolored.[1]

[1] A paper label affixed to the cardboard backing reads: "cleaned and revarnished with Mastic by C[harles]. Bregler Phila. Pa June 1938." The NGA conservation report notes the 1957 varnish.

Bibliography

1930: Goodrich, Lloyd. "Thomas Eakins, Realist." Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin 25 (March 1930): 27, no. 188.

1933: Goodrich, Lloyd. Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work. New York, 1933: 202, no. 430.

1967: Schendler, Sylan. Eakins. Boston, 1967: repro. 279.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 52, repro.

1974: Hendricks, Gordon. The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins. New York, 1974: 170, repro. 171.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 150, repro.

1980: Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1980: 116, repro.

1981: Williams, William James. A Heritage of American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1981: 169, repro. 171.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 553, no. 839, color repro.

1988: Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Rev. ed. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988: 134, repro.

1989: American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Detroit Institute of Arts. Washington, D.C., 1989: repro. 126.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 168, repro.

1996: Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 176, color repro. 175.