Ruth Harding (Portrait of my Niece), Boy's Head (William Brown), and Daniel W. Jordan
Details
Samuel Murray (1870-1941)
Murray, S.
Ruth Harding (Portrait of my Niece), Boy's Head (William Brown), and Daniel W. Jordan
second inscribed 'S.M. Murray To Willie Brown 1892' (on the back); third inscribed 'To My Friend D.W.Jordan Samuel Murray 1920' (on the base)
each, painted plaster
12 x 4 in. (32.3 x 11.4 cm.); 10.1/8 x 4 in. (25.2 x 12 cm.); 16.5/8 x 6 in. (42.3 x 17.2 cm.) (3)
Murray, S.
Ruth Harding (Portrait of my Niece), Boy's Head (William Brown), and Daniel W. Jordan
second inscribed 'S.M. Murray To Willie Brown 1892' (on the back); third inscribed 'To My Friend D.W.Jordan Samuel Murray 1920' (on the base)
each, painted plaster
12 x 4 in. (32.3 x 11.4 cm.); 10.1/8 x 4 in. (25.2 x 12 cm.); 16.5/8 x 6 in. (42.3 x 17.2 cm.) (3)
Provenance
Jane Kershaw Murray, the artist's widow.
John B. Thomson, Malvern, Pennsylvania, the artist's nephew-in-law.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York (Gifts to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1966).
John B. Thomson, Malvern, Pennsylvania, the artist's nephew-in-law.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York (Gifts to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1966).
Literature
Rosenzweig, Phyllis, "Problems and Resources in Thomas Eakins Research: The Hirshhorn Museum's Samuel Murray Collection" in Arts Magazine, May 1979, P. 118, fig. 1. Carr, Carolyn Kinder and George Gurney, Revisiting the White City(Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution,1993): p. 371, ill.
Exhibited
Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Samuel Murray: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection, May-July, 1982, nos. 19,1 and 11.RPensylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, One Hundred and Sixtieth Annual Exhibition.
Sale room notice
The third inscription should read 'To My Friend D.W. Jordan Samuel Murray 1920' (on the base).