Artwork Details
16-3/16 x 24-1/4 in. (canvas) 22 x 30 x 2-1/2 in. (framed)
Mark DescriptionSigned with monogram in red paint, lower left: [stylized "F" intertwined with "D"] 1881 Inscribed in pencil on stretcher at verso: Miss Boott Stamped on stretcher at verso: (LH,D/341/1 -
Accession NumberGift of Mrs. Charles P. Mattingly in memory of Charles Stayton Drake
CopyrightAmerican Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color PaletteThe artist; Miss Elizabeth Boott [future wife of the artist] Boston, Massachusetts, 1881; Frank B. and Josephine Whitney Duveneck [son and daughter-in-law of the artist] Los Altos, California; (Chapellier Galleries, New York, New York); given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, in 1972 (72.136).
- Duveneck was born in Kentucky and studied art in Munich, Germany. During the summer he often sketched and painted with J. Frank Currier in the villages of Dachau and Polling outside of Munich.
- In 1878 Duveneck began to teach art classes in Munich and Polling, where he trained American artists who became known as “Duveneck Boys.”
- Duveneck’s vigorous brushwork and manipulation of dark tonalities in this painting suggest his Munich School training. His introduction of notes of bright greens and blues, unusual for the Munich style, has been attributed to his travel and work in Italy from 1879 to early 1881.
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Frank Duveneck: American Master
Cincinnati Art Museum
December 18, 2020 - March 28, 2021
More Than Red, White and Blue: American Paintings from the Collection
Indianapolis Museum of Art
July 2, 1989 - August 20, 1989
Traditions: The Region/The World
Michigan Artrain
March 9, 1981 - December 18, 1981
The Ripening of American Art: Duveneck and Chase
Mobile Museum of Art
October 4, 1979 - January 13, 1980
Munich American Realism in the 19th Century
Crocker Art Museum
October 28, 1978 - December 10, 1978
Munich and American Realism in the 19th Century
Milwaukee Art Museum
July 13, 1978 - August 27, 1978
Munich and American Realism in the 19th Century
Cincinnati Art Museum
April 15, 1978 - May 28, 1978
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