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The Blue Feather
About the Artwork
William J. Edmondson felt that artists should paint what they see, and once declared, "When painting a portrait, I do not indulge in this ‘painting of the soul’ stuff." The sitter in The Blue Feather was his student, Caroline Mytinger, who often modeled for him. Later a portraitist in her own right, she traveled to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands to record its Indigenous people.
Inscriptions
signed lower right: Wm. J. Edmondson/ 1917.
Exhibition history
The Homage Show. Cleveland Society of Artists, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 9-November 9, 1962).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- William J. Edmondson (American, 1868–1966)
- Date
- 1917
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 107.3 x 112.4 x 5.8 cm (42 1/4 x 44 1/4 x 2 5/16 in.); Unframed: 70.5 x 75.6 cm (27 3/4 x 29 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of Morris Glauber
- Accession no.
- 1917.400
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009611
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