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Susan in a Straw Bonnet
by Mary Cassatt
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower left
Provenance
Sold by Georges Bernheim, Paris, January 11, 1923 [Breeskin 1970]. Sold by Chester H. Johnson Gallery, Chicago, to Walter S. Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago, February 2, 1925 [invoice] bequeathed by his wife, Kate Brewster (née Lancaster; c. 1879–1947) to the Art Institute, 1950.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Mary Cassatt Memorial Exhibition," December 21, 1926-January 24, 1927, cat. 6. Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Institute, "A Memorial Exhibition of Mary Cassatt," March 15-April 15, 1928, cat. 27. Lake Forest, Ill., Lake Forest College, "100th Anniversary of Lake Forest College," June 9-June 17, 1957
Publications
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961), p. 69. Frederick Sweet, Paintings and Pastels by Mary Cassatt in the Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago and in Chicago Collections," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 2 (1967), p. 37 (ill.). Adelyn Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings (Washington DC, 1970), no. 106 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Mary Cassatt / American, 1844-1926
- Date
- c. 1883
- Medium
- Pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 62.3 × 51.2 cm (24 1/2 × 20 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pastel
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Kate L. Brewster
- Accession no.
- 1950.119
More by Mary Cassatt in museum collections
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