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Mary E. Goddard

Artist Frank Duveneck American, 1848–1919

Date1879

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensionsoverall: 59 × 31 in. (149.9 × 78.7 cm)
frame: 65 1/4 × 37 5/8 × 2 1/4 in. (165.7 × 95.6 × 5.7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.11

On View

On view

Provenance**Created United States, 1879; Mary E. Goddard [1] Williams; [Robert Vose, Vose Galleries, Boston]; E. J. Reiss, Cincinnati, January 18, 1936; Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. Heekin, Cincinnati, 1936; Harry A. Groban, Cincinnati; [Vose Galleries, Boston, April 1, 1952, stock no. 16600]; sold to NCMA, 1952.

[1] Mrs. Fletcher Lambert
Published ReferencesThe American Art Review 1, no. 10 (August 1880), mentioned 456.

Frederick Fairchild Sherman, Early American Portraiture (New York: privately printed, 1930), included in "A List of Portraits by Frank Duveneck," no. 105 (as Mrs. Mary Goddard Williams and property of Mr. Robert C. Vose, Boston, MA).

Exhibition of the Work of Frank Duveneck (exhibition catalogue) (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1936), cat. no. 25.

W.R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 13, illus. (b-w).

American Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 18, illus. (b-w)

Charles W. Stanford, Jr., Selections from British and American Painting and Sculpture (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), no. 33, illus. (color).

Frederic Fairchild Sherman, Early American Portraiture (New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1972), 65, illus. fig. 165.

American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (brochure) (Charlotte: Mint Museum of Art, 1975), no 13, illus. (b-w).

American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue) (Asheville: Asheville Art Museum, 1976), listed (with artist's bio.) 12, illus. (b-w) 12.

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) 247.

Michael Quick, An American Painter Abroad: Frank Duveneck's European Years (exhibition catalogue) (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1988), discussed 53, listed 103, illus. (b-w) fig. 34.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 241.

Frank Duveneck: American Master, Julie Aronson, ed. (exhibition catalogue) (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 2020), cat. no. 53, illus. (color).
Exhibition HistoryColumbus, OH, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, "Paintings by Old and Modern Masters," 1924, no. 10.

Cincinnati, OH, Cincinnati Art Museum, "Exhibition of the Work of Frank Duveneck," May 23-June 21, 1936, no. 25 (as The Crimson Gown [Mrs. Mary Goddard Williams], lent by Mr. & Mrs. Albert Heekin, Cincinnati).

[Manchester, NH, New Hampshire, Currier Gallery of Art, n. d. (per Vose)]

[Kansas City, MO, Nelson Gallery of Art, n.d. (per Vose)]

Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, "American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," September 7-October 19, 1975, no. 13, illus. (b-w).

Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum, "American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," May 16-June 27, 1976, listed (with artist's bio.) 12, illus. (b-w) 12.

Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Art Museum, "Inaugural Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," May 1-30, 1978.

Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Art Museum, "American Costume in Painting," August 28-September 24, 1979.

Wilmington, NC, St. John's Museum of Art, "Inaugural Exhibition of American Paintings," December 7, 1980-January 24, 1981.

Cincinnati, OH, Cincinnati Art Museum, "An American Painter Abroad: Frank Duveneck's European Years," October 3, 1987-January 3, 1988, discussed 53, listed 103, illus. (b-w) fig. 34.

Cincinnati, OH, Cincinnati Art Museum, “Frank Duveneck: American Master,” December 18, 2020–March 28, 2021, cat. no. 53, illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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