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Bust of Mary Harris Thompson, MD
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, bottom-middle, on pedestal, incised: "MARY HARRIS THOMPSON MD / 1829 1895"; signed and dated left, middle-bottom, on pedestal, incised: "D•C•FRENCH Sc 1902".
Provenance
Commissioned by the Friends of Mary Harris Thompson, Chicago, 1902 [Schultz 2001, 879]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1903; permanently lent to the Mary Thompson Hospital, Chicago, 1929; returned to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1992.
Publications
William M. R. French, Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, and Other Objects in the Museum (Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), 77, cat. 964, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t59c9q90w. George William Eggers, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings: Part I: Architecture and Sculpture, vol. 1 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 80, cat. 964, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015036764952. Adele Hast, "Thompson, Mary Harris," in Women Building Chicago, 1790–1990: A Biographical Dictionary, ed. Rima Lunin Schultz (Indiana University Press, 2001), 879, https://archive.org/details/womenbuildingchi0000unse.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Daniel Chester French (American, 1850–1931)
- Date
- 1902
- Medium
- Marble
- Dimensions
- 74.8 × 56.6 × 37.5 cm (29 7/16 × 22 1/4 × 14 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- sculpture
- Place
- New York
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of the Mary Harris Thompson, MD, Foundation
- Accession no.
- 1903.140
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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