Margaret ("Gretchen") Strong
c. 1909
Painter, American, 1862 - 1951

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 76.8 x 64.2 cm (30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in.)
framed: 90.8 x 78.1 x 3.2 cm (35 3/4 x 30 3/4 x 1 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1992.66.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Commissioned by the sitter's parents, The Reverend and Mrs. George Alexander Strong, Boston; by inheritance to their daughter, the sitter, Margaret Wendell Strong Withers [1892-1973] and her husband, Captain Clarke Withers [d. 1983], Massachusetts and St. Michael's, Maryland; by bequest 1983 to Captain Wither's first cousin once removed, Elizabeth Clarke Hayes [Mrs. Francis W. Hayes], St. Michael's, Maryland; gift 1992 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1989
Frank W. Benson: A Retrospective, Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York, 1989, no. 28.
2007
Loan to display with permanent collection, Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, 2007-2008.
2012
Impressionist Summers: Frank W. Benson's North Haven, The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, 2012, fig. 57.
Bibliography
1989
Bedford, Faith Andrews. "Frank W. Benson: A Biography." In Frank W. Benson: A Retrospective. Exh. cat. Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York, 1989: 66, no. 28.
1994
Bedford, Faith Andrews. Frank W. Benson: American Impressionist. New York, 1994: 106, repro. 107.
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: 28-31, color repro.
Inscriptions
lower left: F.W. Benson / [four blurred digits, possibly 1910]
Wikidata ID
Q20191267