East Building Ground Level, Gallery 103-C
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 41.3 x 33.8 cm (16 1/4 x 13 5/16 in.)
framed: 49.9 x 41.9 x 4.1 cm (19 5/8 x 16 1/2 x 1 5/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1994.59.15
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Acquired from the artist November 1924 by the estate of John Quinn [1870-1924], New York; (his estate sale, American Art Galleries, New York, 9-12 February 1927, 3rd day, no. 477, as Girl Reading a Letter); (Joseph Brummer [1883-1947], New York); John Quinn's sister, Julia Quinn Anderson; 1934 to her daughter, Mary Anderson [Mrs. Thomas F.] Conroy; 1970 to her husband, Thomas F. Conroy; acquired by 1975 by private collection; sold 1986 through (Davis & Langdale Company Inc., New York) to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia;[1] gift 1994 to NGA.
[1] Provenance from Cecily Langdale, Gwen John: With a Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings and a Selection of the Drawings, New Haven and London, 1987: 169.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1975
Gwen John: A Retrospective Exhibition, Davis & Long Company, New York, 1975, no. 102, repro.
1982
Gwen John: Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of John Quinn & Others, Stanford University Museum of Art, California, 1982, no. 8, repro.
2015
A Lineage of American Perceptual Painters, The Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, 2015, no catalogue.
Bibliography
1987
Langdale, Cecily. Gwen John: With a Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings and a Selection of the Drawings. New Haven and London, 1987: no. 120, pl. 240.
Wikidata ID
Q20191883