In the Library
Frederick Carl Frieseke, American, 1874 - 1939
about 1917
Oil on canvas
Overall: 28 15/16 × 36 1/2 in. (73.5 × 92.7 cm)
Frame: 34 5/8 × 41 7/8 in. (87.9 × 106.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Charles H. Hood II, Class of 1951
P.991.56
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right: F.C. Frieseke; Gallery label on frame reverse: No. 7978 / Artist F. C. Frieseke [in ink] / Address 162 [in graphite, later addition?] Phone _____ / Title In the Library [in ink] Price 500 [in graphite] Size 29 x 36" [in ink] / GRAND CENTRAL ART GALLERIES / 15 Vanderbilt Ave. New York, N.Y.
Course History
ARTH 85, Senior Seminar in Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Fall 2015
Exhibition History
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
Exhibition of Paintings by Frederick Carl Frieseke, Maurice Fromkes, Hayley Lever & Jonas Lie, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, December 11-January 3, 1921.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 24, 2001-May 8, 2007.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 7, 2010.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 16-September 12, 1999.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 21, 1992-March 10, 1996.
Picturing Gentility: Portraits of Women in American Art, The Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York, September 24-November 19, 2000.
Probably; 23rd Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, April 21-June 17, 1929.
Special Exhibition of Paintings by Frederick C. Frieseke, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., March 4-30, 1924.
Publication History
Nicholas Kilmer, Virginia M. Mecklenburg, David Sellin, H. Barbara Weinberg, Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist, Savannah: Telfair Museum of Art with Princeton University Press, 2001, pp. 100-101, ill., p. 100.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 81, no. 57.
Provenance
The artist [possibly with Macbeth Gallery, New York]; Grand Central Art Galleries, New York; sold to Katherine W. (1862-1935) and Charles H. Hood (1860-1937), 1929; Harvey P. Hood (1897-1978), 1937; to Charles H. Hood II (1929-2016), 1968; given to present collection, 1991.
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