The Garden Parasol
Artist
Frederick Carl Frieseke
American, 1874–1939, active in France 1898–1939
Date1910
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions57 1/8 x 77 in. (145.1 x 195.6 cm)
Frame: 68 x 88 x 6 in. (172.7 x 223.5 x 15.2 cm)
Frame: 68 x 88 x 6 in. (172.7 x 223.5 x 15.2 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina, 1973, and dedicated in memory of Moussa M. Domit, director of the North Carolina Museum of Art (1974–1980), by the NCMA Board of Trustees, 2008
Object number73.1.4
On View
On view[1] According to P. Davidson.
Published ReferencesThird Exhibition: Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1911), no. 226.
Vittorio Pica, "Artisti Contemporanei: Frederick Carl Frieseke," Emporium 38 (November 1913), 323-337, illus. (b-w) (as Il Thè nel Giardino, Tea in the Garden).
Illustrated Catalogue of the American Fine Art Section, Anglo-American Exposition (exhibition catalogue) (London: 1914), no. 235, illus. (b-w).
"Recent Acquisitions" (exhibition catalogue), North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 12 (March 1974), listed paintings no. 4, discussed 10, illus. (color) 10.
Frederick Frieseke, 1874-1939 (exhibition catalogue) (Savannah: Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1974), no. 27, illus. (color).
"La Chronique des Arts: Acquisitions des Musees," Gazette des Beaux Arts 85 (March 1975), 47, illus. (b-w) fig. 172.
On View 9 (1975), 75, illus. (b-w) pl. 229.
Michael Quick, American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century (exhibition catalogue) (Dayton: The Dayton Art Institute, 1976), no. 15, illus. (color).
M. Therese Southgate, "The Cover," JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 242 (August 3, 1979), 397, illus. (color) cover.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: Published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (color) 23.
William H. Gerdts, American Impressionism (New York: Abbeville Press, 1984), discussed 263, illus. (color) fig. 345.
William H. Gerdts, "To Light the Landscape," in California Light, 1900-1930, by Patricia Fenton and William H. Gerdts (Laguna Beach: Laguna Art Museum, 1990), illus. (b-w) fig. 29.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) 246.
William H. Gerdts, Monet's Giverny: An Impressionist Colony (New York: Abbeville Press, 1993), illus. (color) fig. 142.
Rosalie Gomes, Impressions of Giverny: A Painter's Paradise 1883-14 (San Francisco: Pomegranate, 1995), 96, illus. (color) pl. 65.
Elizabeth Spencer, "Summer Days at Giverny," in The Store of Joys, Huston Paschal, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), 84-88, illus. (color) 84.
M. Therese Southgate, The Art of JAMA: One Hundred Covers and Essays from The Journal of the American Medical Association (St. Louis: Mosby, 1997), discussed 74 and 202, illus. (color).
Kate Chopin, The Awakening, 2nd ed., Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism, Nancy A. Walker, ed. (Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000) illus. (color detail) cover.
R.S. Gwynn, "The Garden Parasol," in The Store of Joys, Huston Paschal, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), 88-89, detail (color) 88. Reprinted in No Word of Farewell by R.S. Gwynn (Ashland: Story Line Press, 2001), 52, illus. (color) cover.
John W. Coffey, entry for The Garden Parasol, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 189, 209, illus. (color) p. 209.
Gene Downs, "Making a Big Impression," Savannah Morning News (October 8, 2000), 12E, illus. (color) 1E.
Allison Eckhardt Ledes, "Current and coming," Antiques 159, no. 4 (April 2001), illus. (color) 526.
Hollis Koons McCullough and Linda McWhorter, "Frederick Carl Frieseke," American Art Review 13, no. 2 (April 2001), discussed 143, illus. (color) 138.
Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist (exhibition catalogue) (Princeton, NJ: Published for the Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, by Princeton University Press, 2001), cat. no. 25, mentioned 64, 88, illus. (color) 149.
Museum News 80, no. 3 (May/June 2001), illus. (color), 3, 20-21.
Joan MacPhail Knight, Charlotte in Paris (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2003), illus. (color) unnumbered page.
"Important American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture," Christie's: New York (Thursday, May 25, 2006), mentioned 98, lot 69.
John W. Coffey, entry for The Garden Parasol, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 440, illus. (color) 441.
R.S. Gwynn, "The Garden Parasol" in “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art,” edited by Helena Feder (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), illus (color) 192.Exhibition HistoryWashington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, "Third Exhibition: Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists," December 13, 1910–January 22, 1911, no. 226 (as The Garden Parasol).
London, "Anglo-American Exposition," 1914, American Fine Art Section cat. no. 235 (as The Garden Umbrella), illus. (b-w)
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Recent Acquisitions," June 16–August 18, 1974, no. 4, illus. (color).
Savannah, GA, Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, "Frederick Frieseke, 1874–1939," November 5–December 5, 1974; New York, NY, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, December 11, 1974–January 20, 1975; Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, February 5–March 5, 1975; St. Petersburg, FL, Museum of Fine Arts, April 6–May 4, 1975; Columbia, SC, Columbia Museum of Art, May 11–June 8, 1975, no. 27, illus. (color).
Dayton, OH, Dayton Art Institute, "American Expatriate Painters of the late Nineteenth Century," December 4, 1976–January 16, 1977; Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, February 4–March 20, 1977; Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, April 12–May 29, 1977, no. 15, illus. (b-w).
Tarboro, NC, The Barracks, "(special exhibition)", March 17–20, 1978.
Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina, Morehead Planetarium, "Cartier Soiree," January 16, 1979.
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.
Savannah, GA, Telfair Museum of Art, "Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist," March 20–June 3, 2001, cat. 64, 88, illus. (color) 149.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Highlights of the American Collection, February 15–August 2, 2009.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Becoming the NCMA: 10 Decades of Collecting, 1924–2022," June 11–August 21, 2022.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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