
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001492Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer (Mary Anthony)
Inscriptions
Signed, upper left: "To my friend, Mrs. Dyer. John S. Sargent. Venice. 1880"
Provenance
The artist, London; given to Mary Anthony Dyer (born 1848; also Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer), 1880. Martin A. Ryerson (1856–1932), Chicago, by 1915; sold to the Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1915; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1915.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Special Exhibition of the Works in the Friends of American Art Collection, May 15–June 15, 1919, cat. 8. New York, Grand Central Galleries, Retrospective Exhibition of Important Works of John Singer Sargent, Feb. 23–Apr. 6, 1924, cat. 49. Milwaukee Art Institute, An Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, Mar. 1–29, 1925, cat. 31, as Mrs. Dyer. Art Institute of Chicago, A Survey of American Painting from the Permanent Collection of the Art Institute, July 21–Oct. 9, 1932. Museum of Modern Art, American Painting and Sculpture 1862–1932, Oct. 31, 1932–Jan. 31, 1933, cat. 90. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Oct. 31, 1933, cat. 476. De Young Memorial Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Exhibition of American Painting, June 7–July 7, 1935, cat. 194. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Problems of Portraiture, Oct. 16–Nov. 28, 1937; Washington, DC, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Dec. 6, 1937–Jan. 3, 1938. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Art in Our Times, May–Oct. 1939, cat. 46. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Survey of American Painting, Oct. 24–Dec. 15, 1940, cat. 194. Milwaukee Art Museum, Six Centuries of Portrait Masterpieces, Oct. 2–Nov. 15, 1942. Springfield, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, Fifteen Fine Paintings, Oct. 7–Nov. 7, 1948. Art Institute of Chicago, Sargent, Whistler, and Mary Cassatt, Jan. 14–Feb. 25, 1954, cat. 43; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mar. 25–May 23, 1954. Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available]. New York, World's Fair, Gallery at the Better Living Center, Four Centuries of American Masterpieces, May 22–Oct. 18, 1964, cat. 25. New York, Portraits Inc., Portraits of Yesterday and Today, Apr. 23–May 21, 1968, cat. 73. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19th–Century America, Paintings and Sculpture, an Exhibition in Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Apr. 16–Sept. 7, 1970, cat. 175. Art Institute of Chicago, Art at the Time of the Centennial, June 19–Aug. 15, 1976, no cat., as Portrait of Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer. Albi, France, Musée Toulouse–Lautrec, Tresors Impressionistes du Musée de Chicago, cat. 54. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, John Singer Sargent, Oct. 7, 1986–Jan. 4, 1987; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 7–Apr. 19, 1987. Art Institute of Chicago, John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age, July 1–Sept. 30, 2018, cat. 8.
Publications
Milwaukee Art Institute, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, exh. cat. (Milwaukee Art Institute, 1925), n.p., cat. 31 (ill.), as Mrs. Dyer. Homer Saint-Gaudens, ed., Survey of American Painting, exh. cat. (Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, 1940), n.p., cat. 194. Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 74. Annelise K. Madsen, et al., John Singer Sargent and Chicago's Gilded Age, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), 17, 26–27, 69, 76, 121, 133, 203, 209, 211, cat. 8, fig. 6 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)
- Date
- 1880
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 62.2 × 43.8 cm (24 1/2 × 17 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Friends of American Art Collection
- Accession no.
- 1915.592
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