Civil War Regalia of Major Levi Gheen McCauley

Provenance

Commissioned by Levi Gheen McCauley, West Chester, PA; by descent to his nephew, Louis G. McCauley, Binghampton, NY, by 1922; by descent to his son Robert G. McCauley; Schwarz, Philadelphia, by 1997; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2000.

Exhibition history

Philadelphia, Bailey, Banks & Biddle, Oct. 1887. Greensburg, PA, Westmoreland Museum of Art, Penn's Promise: Still–Life Painting in Pennsylvania, 1898–1930, 1988, cat. 13, as Civil War Accoutrements. Shanghai Museum, Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945, Sept. 28, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 4.

Publications

Robert Devlin Schwarz, "150 Years of Philadelphia Still–Life painting," Schwarz Philadelphia (1997) no. 74 (ill.). Sarah E. Kelly, “The Civil War Regalia of Major Levi Gheen McCauley,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 1 (2004): 20–21 (color ill.). Clare Kunny and Andrew Walker, “Introduction,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 1 (2001): 4–6, (ill.). Judith A. Barter, "True to the Senses and False in Its Essence: Still–Life and Trompe l'Oeil Painting in Victorian America," Museum Studies 31, 1 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2005): 42 (ill.). Yang Zhigang, ed., Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945, exh. cat. (Shanghai Book and Painting Press, 2018), cat. 4.

Quick Overview

Artist: George Cope / American, 1855–1929
Date: 1887
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 127 × 92.7 cm (50 × 36 1/2 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: painting
Style: Realism
Place: United States
Department: Arts of the Americas
Credit line: Quinn E. Delaney and Chauncey and Marion McCormick funds; Wesley M. Dixon Endowment
Accession no.: 2000.134

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.