Dr. Albert C. Getchell
Artist
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins
American, 1844–1916
Date1907
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions24 x 20 1/16 in. (61 x 51 cm)
Frame: 31 x 27 1/8 x 1 3/4 in. (78.7 x 68.9 x 4.4 cm)
Frame: 31 x 27 1/8 x 1 3/4 in. (78.7 x 68.9 x 4.4 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number67.6.1
On View
Not on view[1] Per inscription.
[2] Mrs. Eugene O.
Published ReferencesLloyd Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1933), cat. no. 441
“Dr. Getchell. Tuberculosis Pioneer, Dies,” Worcester Telegram (Worcester, MA), October 2, 1950: 1, 8 (notes portrait).
(Silberman Galleries advertisement) Burlington Magazine 107 (Oct.1965), illus. (b-w) xix.
Selections from the Collection of Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Vol. 8 (New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1966), no. 17, illus. (b-w).
Charles W. Stanford, Jr. Selections from British and American Painting and Sculpture (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), no. 31, illus. (color).
"La Chronique des Arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1189 (Feb. 1968), listed no. 322, illus.(b-w).
Dorothy B. Rennie, "The Portraiture of Thomas Eakins." North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 8 (December 1968), 12-22, illus. (b-w) fig. 1.
Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 122, illus. (color) 123.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: Published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 258.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museumof Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 245.
John W. Coffey and Virginia Burden, entry for Portrait of Dr. Albert C. Getchell, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 6, 208, illus. (color) 208.
M. Therese Southgate, M.D., "The Cover," JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 288, no. 12 (September 25, 2002), discussed 1443, illus. (color) 1435, and cover.
John W. Coffey, entry for Dr. Albert C. Getchell, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 436, illus. (color) 437.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Babcock Art Galleries, "Thomas Eakins," December 15, 1930-January 15, 1931, no. 18.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 122, illus. (color) 123.
Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, "American Paintings and Sculpture,1900-1945,"November 2-December 27, 1978, no. 18.
Winston-Salem, NC, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, "Twentieth-Century American Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art," December 7, 1979-January 31, 1980.
Wilmington, NC, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, "18th and 19th Century American Art from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," June 20, 2003-February 22, 2004.
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