Miss Julia Marlowe

1901

Irving R. Wiles

Artist, American, 1861 - 1948

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 69


Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Julia Marlowe Sothern

  • Dimensions

    overall: 188.6 x 140.4 cm (74 1/4 x 55 1/4 in.)
    framed: 204.5 x 156.8 x 8.9 cm (80 1/2 x 61 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1951.6.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The sitter, Julia Marlowe Sothern [1866-1950], New York; her estate; bequest 1951 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1902

  • Seventy-seventh Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design, New York, 1902, no. 317, repro.

1903

  • Seventy-second Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1903, no. 74.

1904

  • Universal Exposition [Commemorating the Louisiana Purchase 1803], St. Louis, 1904, no. 865.

1905

  • Loan Exhibition of Portraits, Art Institute of Chicago, 1905, no. 144.

1909

  • Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia [Venice Biennale, 8th Exhibition], Venice, 1909, no. 43 in Room 17, as Ritratto.

1944

  • Stars of Yesterday and Today: A Loan Exhibition of Portraits of Famous Personalities of the Opera, Stage and Screen and Portraits by Distinguished Contemporary Artists, Wildenstein Galleries, New York, 1944, no. 62 (see errata in catalogue).

1967

  • Loan for display with permanent collection, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1967-1981 [sent to Folger Shakespeare Library March to November 1976].

1971

  • Portraits of the American Stage 1771-1971, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1971, no. 40, repro.

1976

  • Shakespeare in America 1776-1976, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., 1976, no cat.

1981

  • American Portraiture in the Grand Manner: 1720-1920, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1981-1982, no. 68.

1988

  • Irving R. Wiles, National Academy of Design, New York; The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Fine Arts Center, Cheekwood, Nashville, 1988, Pl. X (shown only in New York).

  • Loan for display with permanent collection, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1988-2000.

2000

  • Rave Reviews: American Art and Its Critics, 1826-1925, National Academy of Design, New York; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa; Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2000-2001, no. 59, repro.

Bibliography

1902

  • Howard, H. N. "National Academy of Design Exhibition." Brush and Pencil 9 (January 1902): 286.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 122, repro.

1971

  • Portraits of the American Stage 1771-1971. Exh. cat. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1971: 90, pl. 40.

1975

  • Schweizer, Paul D. "Genteel Taste at the National Academy of Design's Annual Exhibitions, 1891-1910." American Art Review 2 (July-August 1975): 84, 86, pl. 78.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 260, repro.

1981

  • Williams, William James. A Heritage of American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1981: repro. 186, 187.

  • Quick, Michael. "Achieving the Nation's Imperial Destiny: 1870-1920." In American Portraiture in the Grand Manner: 1720-1920. Exh. cat. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981: 71, 200, pl. 68.

1988

  • Reynolds, Gary A. Irving R. Wiles. Exh. cat. National Academy of Design, New York, 1988: 19, pl. X.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 382, 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: 265-268, color repro.

Inscriptions

upper left: Miss Julia Marlowe / Irving R. Wiles 1901; lower left: Copyright 1901 / by Irving Ramsay Wiles

Wikidata ID

Q20190786


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