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    Mrs. Potter Palmer
    Anders Leonard Zorn. Mrs. Potter Palmer, 1893. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001316

    Mrs. Potter Palmer

    by Anders Leonard Zorn

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed lower left: Zorn. / Chicago 1893

    Provenance

    Commissioned by Mrs. Potter Palmer (died 1918), Chicago, 1893; by descent in the Palmer family; given to the Art Institute, 1922.

    Exhibition history

    Sarasota, Fla., John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Palmer Family Collections, February 23-March 24, 1963. Mora, Sweden, Zorn Museum, Anders Zorn, June 1-August 20, 1989; Kiel, Germany, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, September 3-October 22, 1989; Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, November 1, 1989-January 10, 1990. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago’s Dream, A World’s Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago 1893-1993, 1993, no cat. no. Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Anders Zorn: till ögats fröjd och nationens förgyllning, September 15-December 11, 1994, cat. 59; Göteborgs Konstmuseum, December 26,1994-March 26, 1995. Chicago History Museum, Bertha Honoré Palmer, May 23, 2009- January 3, 2010, no cat. Boston, Isabella Steward Gardener Museum, Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America, February 28 – May 13, 2013, cat. 4. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Anders Zorn: Sweden's Master Painter, November 9, 2013-February 13, 2014; New York; National Academy Museum, February 26-May 25, 2014. Art Institute of Chicago, John Singer Sargent and Chicago's Gilded Age, June 27-Septembet 30, 2018.

    Publications

    Karl Asplund, Anders Zorn: His Life and Work (London, 1921), p. 42. G. Boethius, Zorn: tecknaren, målaren, etsaren, sculptören (Stockholm, 1949), p. 547, fig. 156. The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 488. Chicago Historical Society Quarterly 3, 7 (Spring 1953), pp. 214 (ill.), 197. Ishbel Ross, Silhouette in Diamonds: The Life of Mrs. Potter Palmer (New York, 1960), p. 96, ill. Jeanne Madeline Weimann, The Fair Woman (Chicago, 1981), p. 579-81 (ill.). Douglas K. S. Hyland and Hans Henrik Brummer, Zorn: Paintings, Graphics, and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Birmingham Museum of Art, 1986), p. 24, ill. 10. Hans Henrik Brummer, ZornMCMLXXXIX, exh. cat. (Mora, Zornsamlingarna, 1989), no. 67 (ill.). Margaret Carroll, “Art Institute Owes Much To 1890s Patrons,” Chicago Tribune (July 15, 1990), ill. Brigitta Sandtröm, Portraits by Anders Zorn, exh. cat. (Mora, Zornsamlingarna, 1990), p. 52 (ill.). Colin B. Bailey, “Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg),” Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting. New Haven: Yale University Press and The Frick Collection, 2012. p. 128, fig. 4. Oliver Tostmann, ed., Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America, exh. cat. (London: Paul Holberton, 2013), 76, 89–90 (ill.).

    Open-access museum data

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish, 1860–1920)
    Date
    1893
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    258 × 141.2 cm (101 5/8 × 55 5/8 in.); Framed: 266.1 × 149.6 × 10.2 cm (104 3/4 × 58 7/8 × 4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    nineteenth century
    Place
    Sweden
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Potter Palmer Collection
    Accession no.
    1922.450

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