John C. Ferguson

Artist William Merritt Chase American, 1849–1916

Datecirca 1915

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions36 1/8 x 29 in. (91.8 x 73.7 cm)
Frame: 44 x 37 x 3 in. (111.8 x 94 x 7.6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ferguson

Object number98.2

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Provenance**Created United States, ca. 1915; the sitter, John C. Ferguson; by descent to grandson Peter C. Ferguson, Kitty Hawk, NC: given to NCMA, 1998.Published ReferencesLa Chronique des Arts (supplement to) Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1562 (March 1999), illus (b-w) 71.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Annual Report (1997-98), illus. (b-w) 46.

Ronald G. Pisano, William Merritt Chase: Portraits in Oil (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), OP.576, discussed and illus. (color) 270.
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