Live Auction 8408Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
Lot 77

John White Alexander (1856-1915)

The Green Gown

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John White Alexander (1856-1915)
The Green Gown
signed with initials 'JWA' lower left
oil on canvas
40¼ x 22½in. (102.2 x 54.6cm.)

Estate of the artist
James Graham & Sons, Inc., New York

Specialist note

The sitter is most probably Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, whose husband, Harry K. Thaw, shot Stanford White. This portrait, painted circa 1904, has a pendant which was in the collection of Mrs. William Thaw, Evelyn's mother-in-law. The sitter is also the subject of Alexander's Study in Black and Green of 1906 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).