Details
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
Study for "Portrait of the Very Reverend John J. Fedigan"
signed 'Eakins' (on the reverse)--bears inscription 'Original Sketch of/Rev. John J. Fedigan/by Thomas Eakins/1902' (upper right)
oil on canvas
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1902.
Provenance
The artist.
Estate of the above.
Susan Macdowell Eakins, wife of the artist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Charles Bregler, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Joseph Katz, Baltimore, Maryland.
M. Knoedler & Co., New York.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, acquired from the above, 1961.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1966.
Literature
L. Goodrich, Thomas Eakins, His Life and Work, New York, 1933, p. 194, no. 363.
M. Knoedler & Co., A Loan Exhibition of the Works of Thomas Eakins (1844-1944) Commemorating the Centennial Year of his Birth, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1944, p. 15, no. 62.
G. Hendricks, The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins, New York, 1974, p. 323, no. 88, illustrated.
P.D. Rosenzweig, The Thomas Eakins Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 1977, p. 181, no. 99, illustrated (as Sketch for a portrait of the Very Reverend John J. Fedigan).
Exhibited
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., and elsewhere, A Loan Exhibition of the Works of Thomas Eakins (1844-1944) Commemorating the Centennial of his Birth, June 5-July 31, 1944, no. 62.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Thomas Eakins Centennial Exhibition 1844-1944, April 26-June 1, 1945, no. 95.
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