
FREDERICK CARL FRIESEKE (1874-1939)
On the Beach (Girl in Blue)
Details
FREDERICK CARL FRIESEKE (1874-1939)
On the Beach (Girl in Blue)
signed 'F.C. Frieseke' (lower right)
oil on canvas
32 x 32 inches (81.3 x 81.3 cm)
Painted in 1913.
On the Beach (Girl in Blue)
signed 'F.C. Frieseke' (lower right)
oil on canvas
32 x 32 inches (81.3 x 81.3 cm)
Painted in 1913.
Provenance
Josephine Pettengill Everett, Cleveland, Ohio, and Pasadena, California.
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, California, acquired from the above.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 1946.
Vose Galleries LLC, Boston, Massachusetts.
Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
Private collection, Dallas, Texas, acquired from the above, 1965.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, California, acquired from the above.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 1946.
Vose Galleries LLC, Boston, Massachusetts.
Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
Private collection, Dallas, Texas, acquired from the above, 1965.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
"A Summer's Day," LIFE Magazine, July 23, 1965, pp. 76-77, illustrated (as Girl in Blue).
Exhibition
Paris, France, Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1913, p. XV, (probably) no. 481 or 484.
Albuquerque, New Mexico, University of New Mexico Art Gallery; San Francisco, California, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, Impressionism in America, February 9-May 5, 1965, p. 2, no. 11, illustrated.
Savannah, Georgia, The Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences; New York, Hirschl & Adler, Inc.; Raleigh, North Carolina, The North Carolina Museum of Art; St. Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Arts; Columbia, South Carolina, Columbia Museum of Art, Frederick Frieseke, 1874-1939, November 5,1974-June 8, 1975, pp. 16-17, no. 8, illustrated (as Girl in Blue).
New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., Frederick C. Frieseke: Women in Repose, May 2-June 23, 1990, pp. 24, 45, no. 10 (as On the Beach).
Albuquerque, New Mexico, University of New Mexico Art Gallery; San Francisco, California, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, Impressionism in America, February 9-May 5, 1965, p. 2, no. 11, illustrated.
Savannah, Georgia, The Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences; New York, Hirschl & Adler, Inc.; Raleigh, North Carolina, The North Carolina Museum of Art; St. Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Arts; Columbia, South Carolina, Columbia Museum of Art, Frederick Frieseke, 1874-1939, November 5,1974-June 8, 1975, pp. 16-17, no. 8, illustrated (as Girl in Blue).
New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., Frederick C. Frieseke: Women in Repose, May 2-June 23, 1990, pp. 24, 45, no. 10 (as On the Beach).
Further details
This work is included in the draft Frieseke Catalogue Raisonné, compiled by Nicholas Kilmer, the artist's grandson, with the support of the Hollis Taggart Galleries. That draft is now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art.
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