Hannah Lemmon Corcoran (Mrs. Thomas Corcoran)

c. 1802/1810

Charles Peale Polk

Painter, American, 1767 - 1822

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Arthur Hellen)

  • Dimensions

    overall: 91.44 × 66.36 cm (36 × 26 1/8 in.)
    framed: 109.22 × 83.19 × 8.26 cm (43 × 32 3/4 × 3 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.136.66

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

By descent through the family of the sitter to Mary Ellen Thom Wood; by inheritance to her son, Arthur Hellen, Washington; gift 1947 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1951

  • Progress of a Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951, no cat.

1966

  • Past and Present: 250 Years of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, unpublished checklist.

1976

  • Corcoran [The American Genuis], Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1976, no checklist.

1981

  • Charles Peale Polk (1767-1822), A Limner and His Likenesses, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg; Dayton Art Institute; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga; Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Massachusetts, 1981-1982, no.

1988

  • Creating the Federal City, 1774-1800: Potomac Fever, Octagon Museum, Washington, 1988, no checklist.

1996

  • The Peale Family: Creation of an American Legacy, 1770-1870, Philadelphia Museum of Art; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996-1997, unnumbered checklist (shown only in Washington).

2008

  • The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, unpublished checklist.

2009

  • American Paintings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 6 June-18 October 2009, unpublished checklist.

2013

  • American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

2011

  • Miles, Ellen G. "Charles Peale Polk, Hannah Lemmon Corcoran (Mrs. Thomas Corcoran)." In Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Edited by Sarah Cash. Washington, 2011: 60-61, 255, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q46626165

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