Mother and Mary
1922
Artist, American, 1862 - 1938

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 112.1 x 127.5 cm (44 1/8 x 50 3/16 in.)
framed: 130.8 x 146.1 cm (51 1/2 x 57 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1967.1.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Purchased 1923 by Elva A. Belcher [Mrs. George E. Belcher], Stoughton, Massachusetts; her daughter, Gertrude H. Belcher [1872-1966], Brockton, Massachusetts; her estate; by bequest 1967 to Miss Beatrice Monk and John Hill, Boston; gift 1967 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1923
Exhibition of Paintings by Edmund C. Tarbell, Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, February 1923, cat. no. not known.
The Art Club of Philadelphia, January 1923, probably no cat.
Thirty-sixth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, November-December 1923, no. 218.
Twenty-second Annual International Exhibition of Paintings, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, April-June 1923, no. 50.
1971
French Impressionists Influence American Artists, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 1971, no. 170.
1989
Loan for display with permanent collection, Minneapolis Institute of Art, 1989-1990.
2001
Impressionism Transformed: The Paintings of Edmund C. Tarbell, The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, 2001-2002, pl. 40.
2007
Loan to display with permanent collection, Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, 2007-2008.
Bibliography
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 114, repro.
1978
Reitz, Susie. Journal of the American Medical Association 240 (1 December 1978): 2516, 2538, color repro. cover.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 247, repro.
Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1980: 130, repro.
Pierce, Patricia Jobe. Edmund C. Tarbell and the Boston School of Painting 1889-1980. Pierce Galleries, Inc., Hingham, Massachusetts, 1980: 92, 106, 207, repro. 128.
1981
Williams, William James. A Heritage of American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1981: detail 189, 194, repro. 195.
1988
Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Rev. ed. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988: 152, repro.
1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 366, repro.
1998
Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 200-202, color repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: Tarbell.22.
Wikidata ID
Q20192417