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Frederick Carl Frieseke

Peace, 1917

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 101.6 × 152.4 cm (40 × 60 in.)

framed: 120.02 × 170.18 × 7.94 cm (47 1/4 × 67 × 3 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)

Accession Number

2014.136.13

Artists / Makers

Frederick Carl Frieseke (painter) American, 1874 - 1939

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Inscription

lower right: F. L. Frieseke / 191[7?]

Provenance

The artist; (William Macbeth, New York); purchased 1921 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington;[1] acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The decorated cradle in the painting was made by Ferdinand Gély (1881-1941) for the artist's daughter, Frances Frieseke (1914-1998), at the time of her birth. Gély was Frances' uncle, married to her mother's younger sister. The cradle remained in the artist's family until it was donated to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 2003 by the artist's grandson, Nicholas Kilmer, who had discovered it in an outbuilding on the artist's property in Normandy the year before. After the Corcoran closed in 2014 the cradle was given to the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, as part of the distribution of the Corcoran collection.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1918: 113th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 3 February - 24 March 1918, no. 437.

1918: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, 7 November 1918 - 12 January 1919, no. 77.

1918: Department of Fine Arts Exhibition, Canadian National Exhibition Gallery of Fine Arts, Toronto, 26 August - 7 September 1918, no. 14.

1918: Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, Toledo Museum of Art, 23 June - August, 1918, no. 180.

1919: 34th Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture. John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, 19 January - 2 March 1919, no. 117.

1919: First annual Exhibition of Contemporary International Art, Dallas Art Association, 18 - 27 November 1919.

1920: Exhibition of Paintings by Honorable Members, Boston Art Club, 20 December 1920 - 7 January 1921, no. 6.

1920: Second Annual Exhibition of the New Society of Artists, Gimpel and Wildenstein Galleries, New York, 8-27 November 1920, no. 50.

1921: 16th Annual Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists, City Art Museum, St. Louis, 15 September - 25 October 1921, no. 35.

1921: 28th Annual Exhibition of American Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, 28 May - 31 July 1921, no. 34.

1921: Eighth Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 18 December 1921 - 22 January 1922.

1921: Ninety-Sixth Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 5 March - 3 April 1921, no. 62.

1924: Special Exhibition of Paintings by Frederick Carl Frieseke, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 4 - 30 March 1924, no. 18.

1939: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Frederick C. Frieseke, N.A., Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 21 March - 5 April 1939, no. 10.

1949: De Gustibus: An Exhibition of American Paintings Illustrating a Century of Taste and Criticism, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 9 January - 20 February 1949, no. 44.

1982: Impressionnistes Américains, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna; Art Museum of the Socialist Republic of Romania, Bucharest; National Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria; 1982-1983, no. 23.

1998: The Forty-Fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907–1998, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 17 July - 29 September 1998, unnumbered catalogue.

1999: American Impressionism: Selections from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Strathmore Hall Arts Center, Bethesda, Maryland, 1999, unnumbered catalogue.

2001: Frederick Frieseke: An American Impressionist, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis; San Diego Museum of Art; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, 2001-2002, no checklist.

2002: The Gilded Cage: Views of American Women, 1873-1921, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002, unpublished checklist.

2003: The Impressionist Tradition in America, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003, unpublished checklist.

2004: Figuratively Speaking: The Human Form in American Art, 1770-1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2004-2005, unpublished checklist.

2005: Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 2005-2007, checklist no. 75 (shown only in Houston, Southampton, and Charlotte).

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

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

Bibliography

2011: Napolitano, Laura Groves. "Frederick Carl Frieseke, Peace." In Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Edited by Sarah Cash. Washington, 2011: 218-219, 279, repro.