For Sunday's Dinner

New York, National Academy of Design, Seventh Autumn Exhibition, Nov. 19–Dec. 15, 1888, cat. 44. Phliadelphia, Wanamaker's Department Store, late 1888/early 1889. Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available]. La Jolla Museum of Art, The Reminiscent Object, Paintings by William Michael Harnett, John Frederick Peto, and John Haberle, July 11–Sept. 19, 1965, cat. 21; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Sept. 28–Oct. 31, 1965. Philadelphia, Peale Galleries of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Two Illusionist Painters, William Michael Harnett and John Frederick Peto, Mar. 11–Apr. 17, 1966, cat. 2. New York City, Coe Kerr Gallery, One Hundred–Fifty Years of American Still–Life Painting, Apr. 27–May 16, 1970, cat. 32. Sacramento, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Munich and American Realism in the Nineteenth Century, Oct. 28–Dec. 10, 1970, cat. 37. Cincinnati Art Museum, Munich & American Realism in the 19th Century, Apr. 20–May 28, 1978; Milwaukee Art Center, July 13–Aug. 27, 1978; Sacramento, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Oct. 28–Dec. 10, 1978. New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art, William H. Harnett, Mar. 16–June 14, 1992; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum, July 17–Oct. 18, 1992, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Nov. 14, 1992–Feb. 14, 1993, Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Mar. 14–June 13, 1993 (New York only). Art Institute of Chicago, Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine, Nov. 10, 2013–Jan. 27, 2014, cat. 23; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Feb. 22–May 18, 2014.

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