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Waldo Peirce

1920

George Bellows

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Artist: George Bellows (1882–1925)
Title: Waldo Peirce
Date: 1920
Object Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 53 1/4 x 43 1/8 in. (135.3 x 109.5 cm)
Credit Line: Museum purchase, gift of the Charles E. Merrill Trust with matching funds from the M.H. de Young Museum Society
Accession Number: 67.23.1

The Artist;
By bequest to his widow, Emma S. Bellows, (c. 1886–1959), New York, 1925.
[Possibly consigned to Grand Central Art Galleries, 1932]. [1]
Estate of Emma S. Bellows;
[H. V. Allison & Co., New York, from 1959 until June 1967];
Purchased by the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1967;
By administrative transfer, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1972.
[1] Referenced in Biennale Label on the reverse of the painting
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Carnegie Institute, 1920, "19th Annual International Exhibition," cat. no. 26.
New York, Ferargil Galleries, ?–March 2, 1921, "Paintings by the late Thomas Eakins and the recent works of George Bellows," checklist no. 10, as Portrait of Waldo Pierce, Esq., not repr. [1]
Dallas, Texas, The Dallas Art Association (The Adolphus Hotel), April 7–21, 1921, "Second Annual Exibition: American and European Art," cat. introduction by Forbes Watson, cat. no. 6, repr.
Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, June 2–September 6, 1921, "Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists," cat. no. 7, as Portrait of Waldo Peirce, Esq.
St. Louis, Mo., 1921 [2]
Washington, D. C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, before 1925 [3]
Rome, 1925, [4]
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 12–November 22, 1925, "Memorial Exhibition of the Work of George Bellows," cat. no. 36, p. 28, repr. p. 79.
Venice, April 28, 1932, "XVIIIth Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d'Arte," No. 5?
New York, H. V. Allison & Co., Inc., Nov.–Dec. 1945.
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, January 31–March 10, 1946, "George Bellows: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints," cat. no. 39, p. 43, repr. p. 46, lent by H. V. Allison and Company.
New York, H. V. Allison & Co., Inc., May 1–31, 1961.
Rockland, Maine, The William A. Farnsworth Art Museum, September 15–October 30, 1950, "Waldo Peirce: A Retrospective Exhibition," no cat. nos.
New York, H. V. Allison & Co., Inc., 1965. [5]
New York, The Gallery of Modern Art, March 14–May 1, 1966, "George Bellows: Paintings, Drawings, Lithographs," cat. no. 54, p. 44, not repr., lent by the George Bellows Estate.
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, December 19, 1970–February 7, 1971, "Three Centuries of American Painting," cat. by F. Lanier Graham, cat. no. 6, p. 34, repr. p. 37.
[1] See Ferargil Gallery Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Microfilm, reel 789, frame 905.
[2] As per provenance passed on from H.V. Allison.
[3] As per Morgan , 1965, p. 235.
[4] As per provenance passed on from H.V. Allison.
[5] As per provenance passed on from H.V. Allison.
Watson, Forbes and The Dallas Art Association, Second Annual Exhibition American and European Art, exh. cat., (Dallas: The Dallas Art Association, 1921), cat. no. 6, repr.
Crownshield, Frank and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Memorial Exhibition of the Work of George Bellows, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1925), p. 28, cat. no. 36, p. 79, repr.
The Paintings of George Bellows, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929), no. 94.
"Venice Biennial," The Art Digest 6, no. 17 (June 1, 1932), p. 4, repr. on cover.
Boswell, Peyton, Jr., George Bellows, (New York: Crown Publishing Group, 1942), p. 20, not repr.
Gibbs, Jo, "Some of the Greatness that was Bellows," The Art Digest 20, no. 4 (November 15, 1945), p. 24, repr.
The Art Institute of Chicago, George Bellows: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute, 1956), p. 43, cat. no. 39, p. 46, repr.
"In the Galleries," Arts 35, nos. 8–9 (May-June 1961), p. 82.
Preston, Stuart, "New York," in "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions," The Burlington Magazine 103, no. 699 (June 1961), p.293.
Morgan, Charles H., George Bellows: Painter of America, (New York: Reynal & Co., 1965), p.235, not repr.
William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Waldo Peirce: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., (Rockland, Maine: William A. Farnsworth Art Museum, 1950), not paginated, repr.
Branitz, Jacqueline, "George Bellows" in "In the Museums: Recent Exhibitions," Artsmagazine 40, no. 7 (New York: The Art Digest, May 1966), p. 56.
Morgan, Charles, and the Gallery of Modern Art, George Bellows: Paintings, Drawings, Lithographs, exh. cat. (New York: The Gallery of Modern Art, 1966), cat. 54, p. 44.
"de Young's Two New Acquisitions," in The San Francisco Chronicle, December 29, 1967, p. 37.
Fried, Alexander, "De Young Adds to Its American Collection," in The San Francisco Examiner, January 1, 1968, p. 27, repr.
Braider, Donald, George Bellows and the Ashcan School of Painting, (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1971), p.125.
Graham, Lanier F., Three Centuries of American Painting, (San Francisco: the M.H. de Young memorial Museum and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1971), pp. 34, repr. 37, cat. 6.
Young, Mahonri Sharp, "The American School," Apollo 111, no. 217 (Mar. 1980): pp. 244–45, repr. 245, fig. 11.
Simpson, Marc, Sally Mills, and Jennifer Saville, The American Canvas: Paintings from the Collection of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1989), pp. 214, 246, repr. 215 (color).
Museum (Nov./Dec. 2014): repr. p. 40.
Tremblay, François, "Shaped by tourism and modern North American life: the popular art of Charlevoix=," in Popular Art: A Continuing Story, (Quebec City, Quebec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 2018), repr. color, fig. 210.

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