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William R. Hallowell (1832–1908)

Artist Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins American, 1844–1916

Date1904

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensionsheight and width: 24 1/8 × 20 1/ 4in. (61.3 × 51.4 cm)
frame: 33 1/4 × 29 5/8 × 2 3/8 in. (84.5 × 75.2 × 6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Ann and Jim Goodnight

Object number2017.4

On View

On view

Provenance**Created United States, 1904; given by the artist to the sitter, William Robinson Hallowell (1832–1908), Germantown, PA, 1904 [1]; to son, William Satterthwaite Hallowell, Sr. (1859–1929), Penllyn, PA, 1908; to wife, Anna Jenkins Ferris Hallowell (1865–1941), 1929; Prof. Charles H. Morgan (1902–84), Amherst, MA, n.d.; [Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY, 1962]; Dr. and Mrs. Irving Levitt, Southfield, MI, 1962; [Alan Pensler, Washington, D.C.]; [Menconi & Schoelkopf, New York, NY, 2006]; Dr. and Mrs. James H. Goodnight, Cary, NC, 2006; given to NCMA, 2017.

[1] Per inscription.
Published ReferencesAlan Burroughs, “Catalogue of Works by Thomas Eakins (1869–1916),” The Arts, vol. 5 (June 1924), 332 (erroneously dated 1905).

Lloyd Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work (New York, NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1933), 199, no. 401.

Selections from the Collection of Hirschl & Adler Galleries, vol. 4 (New York, NY: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1962), 12, illus. (color), collection of Mrs. William R. Hallowell.

Sylvan Schendler, Eakins (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1967), 270, no. 148, illus. (b-w), collection of Dr. Irving Levitt.

Milton Esterow, “Collectors: Dr. and Mrs. Irving Levitt,” Art in America, vol. 58 (May–June 1970), 72, 74, illus. (b-w), 77.

Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins (New York, NY: Grossman Publishers, 1974), 254, illus. (b-w), fig. 279.

Lloyd Goodrich, Thomas Eakins (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982), vol. I, p. 89; vol. II, p. 168.

John W. Coffey and Laura Fravel, A Preliminary Catalogue of the Art Collection of Ann and Jim Goodnight (Raleigh: NCMA, 2014), no. 9 [private publication].
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.

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