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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer (Mary Anthony)
    John Singer Sargent. Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer (Mary Anthony), 1880. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001492

    Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer (Mary Anthony)

    by John Singer Sargent

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    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.).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    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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