Alice
Artist
Lilian Westcott Hale
American, 1880–1963
Date1925
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensionsoverall: 36 × 30 in. (91.4 × 76.2 cm)
frame: 40 3/8 × 34 3/8 × 1 7/8 in. (102.6 × 87.3 × 4.8 cm)
frame: 40 3/8 × 34 3/8 × 1 7/8 in. (102.6 × 87.3 × 4.8 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineBequest of Clarence Poe in memory of his wife, Alice Aycock Poe
Object numberG.64.21.1
On View
Not on viewPublished ReferencesNew York World (April 11, 1926).]
One Hundred & First Annual Exhibition (exhibition catalogue) (New York: National Academy of Design, 1926), no. 198 (as Alice).
Ann Morrow, "Spring Art," The Woman Citizen (May 1926), illus. 8 (as Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire).
Rose V. S. Berry, "Lilian Westcott Hale-Her Art," American Magazine of Art 18 (February 1927), 58-70, mentioned 67 (as Alice Sit by the Fire).
The Literary Digest 95 (December 10, 1927), illus. cover.
Progressive Farmer (December 1933), illus. (color) cover.
American Paintings Since 1900 from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), cat. no. 25, illus. (b-w).
The Academic Tradition in American Art (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: Published for the National Collection of Fine Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1975), no. 150, illus. (b-w).
Richard Horn, "Leaves: The Quiet Charms of Home," Good Housekeeping (1987/88), 113-115, illus. (color) 114.
Erica Eve Hirshler, Lilian Westcott Hale (1880-1963): A Woman Painter of the Boston School (Ph.D. Diss.: Boston U., 1992), listed 259 (as Alice (Sit-by-the-Fire)).
Exhibition HistoryNew York, National Academy of Design, "101st Annual Exhibition," March 20-April 11, 1926, no. 198 (as Alice).
[Raleigh, NC Art Society, exhibition of American paintings circulated by Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, ca. 1927 - per donor.]
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "American Paintings since 1900 from the Permanent Collection," April 1-23, 1967, cat. no. 25, illus. (b-w).
Washington, DC, National Collection of the Fine Arts Academy: The Academic Tradition in American Art," June 6-September 1, 1975, no. 150, illus (b-w).
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Art for the People: The Foundation of the North Carolina Museum of Art, 1924–1945,” November 27, 2019–February 9, 2020.
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