SUSAN MACDOWELL EAKINS (1851-1938)
SUSAN MACDOWELL EAKINS (1851-1938)
SUSAN MACDOWELL EAKINS (1851-1938)
SUSAN MACDOWELL EAKINS (1851-1938)
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PROPERTY OF MR. AND MRS. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER 3RD FROM THE COLLECTION OF SANDRA FERRY ROCKEFELLER
SUSAN MACDOWELL EAKINS (1851-1938)

Portrait of a Lady

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SUSAN MACDOWELL EAKINS (1851-1938)
Portrait of a Lady
signed and dated 'S.H. Macdowell/1880' (upper right)—signed again with initials 'S.M.E.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
18 ¼ x 16 ¼ in. (46.4 x 41.3 cm.)
Painted in 1880.
Provenance
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, New York, acquired from the above, 1968.
By descent to the late owner.
Literature
S.B. Sherrill, "Current and Coming," Magazine Antiques, vol. CIII, no. 5, May 1973, p. 834, illustrated (as Woman Seated).
E.H. Fine, Women & Art: A History of Women Painters and Sculptors from the Renaissance to the 20th Century, Montclair, New Jersey, 1978, p. 115, fig. 5-18, illustrated.
M. Simpson, The Rockefeller Collection of American Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, exhibition catalogue, San Francisco, California, 1994, p. 33, fig. 15, illustrated (as Girl with Fan).
Exhibited
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Susan Macdowell Eakins (1851-1938), May 4-June 10, 1973, pp. 20, 22, 44, no. 8, illustrated.
San Francisco, California, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, American Art: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, April 17-November 7, 1976, pp. 154-55, illustrated (as Woman Seated).
Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts; Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum; San Diego, California, San Diego Museum of Arts; Dallas, Texas, Southern Methodist University, Meadows Museum, American Women Artists, 1830-1930, April 10, 1987-April 17, 1988, n.p., no. 11, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

The daughter of an engraver, Susan Macdowell Eakins painted from a young age and attended classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. She married eminent American painter Thomas Eakins in 1884, and the pair each held a studio in their Philadelphia home. Known primarily for her portraiture, such as the present work, Susan Eakins' paintings are in numerous institutional collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania.

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