id: 94966 accession number: 1915.527 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.527 updated: 2024-03-26 01:56:10.017000 Catherine Greene, 1769. John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815). Oil on canvas; framed: 145.5 x 121 x 7 cm (57 5/16 x 47 5/8 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 125.7 x 101 cm (49 1/2 x 39 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1915.527 title: Catherine Greene title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1769 creation date earliest: 1769 creation date latest: 1769 current location: creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust copyright: --- culture: America, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 145.5 x 121 x 7 cm (57 5/16 x 47 5/8 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 125.7 x 101 cm (49 1/2 x 39 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right: "JSCp. 1769 [JSC in monogram]" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Inaugural Exhibition opening date: 1916-06-06T05:00:00 Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916). title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). title: 64th Anniversary of Opening of Gallery opening date: 1961-03-07T05:00:00 64th Anniversary of Opening of Gallery. Vose Gallery, Boston, MA (organizer) (March 7-25, 1961). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: Turkish Fashion in 18th-century America opening date: 1998-12-10T00:00:00 Turkish Fashion in 18th-century America. Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (organizer) (December 10, 1998-April 11, 1999); Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH (April 25-June 13, 1999). title: CMA @ Oberlin - American Portraits opening date: 2006-08-29T00:00:00 CMA @ Oberlin - American Portraits. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 29-December 17, 2006). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Providence, RI, Rhode Island School of Design (1915 or before?) (see R.C. Vose letter 28 June 1015).', 'opening_date': '1915-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland School of Art, A Group of Paintings by Early American Artists (17 January - 1 February 1915).', 'opening_date': '1915-01-17T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition (6 June - 20 September 1916), cat. no. 127, p. 38, illus. p. 251.', 'opening_date': '1916-06-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition (26 June-4 October, 1936), cat. no. 22, pp. 21-22.', 'opening_date': '1936-06-26T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Columbus, OH, The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, The Colonial Americas (9 October - 9 November 1947).', 'opening_date': '1947-10-09T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Boston, Vose Galleries of Boston, Inc., A Loan Exhibition Honoring Robert Churchill Vose on Commencing his Sixty-Fifth Year as Head of this Firm: Forty Paintings Which have Passed Through his Hands (7 - 25 March 1961), cat. no. 9.', 'opening_date': '1961-03-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum (6 June - 8 September 1991).', 'opening_date': '1991-06-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'San Diego, CA, The Timken Museum of Art, John Singleton Copley and Margaret Kemble Gage: Turkish Fashion in 18th Century America (10 December 1998 - 11 April 1999); traveled to Canton, OH, Canton Art Museum (25 April - 13 June 1999), cat. no. 3, p. 17.', 'opening_date': '1999-04-25T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 29 - December 17, 2006): "CMA @ Oberlin - American Portraits"', 'opening_date': '2006-08-29T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Margaret Greene Spencer, sister of the sitter; Phebe Greene Ward; John Ward, son of Phebe Greene Ward; Charles Henry Ward, grandnephew of John Ward, inherited in 1866; Mary M. Ward, widow of Charles Henry Ward; (New York sale 1914); (Vose Gallery, Boston: the first painting bought by the Museum, 1915). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Perkins, Augustus Thorndike. A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley. Boston: Priv. Print, 1873. page number: Mentioned: p. 67 url: Clarke, Louise Brownell, George Sears Greene, and F. V. Greene. The Greenes of Rhode Island: With Historical Records of English Ancestry, 1534-1902. New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1903. page number: url: Bayley, Frank W. The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley: founded on the Work of Augustus Thorndike Perkins. Boston: Taylor Press, 1915. page number: Mentioned: p. 129-130 url: "The Collection of Paintings." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 2, no. 2 (1915): 4-5. page number: Reproduced: cover; mentioned: p. 5 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136018 Bell, Hamilton. "Early American Portraits at The Cleveland Museum of Art." The American Magazine of Art. 7:12 (October, 1916). p. 484-8. page number: Mentioned: p. 484-488; Reproduced: p. 488 url: Gibson, Katharine. The Goldsmith of Florence: A Book of Great Craftsmen. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1929. page number: Mentioned: p. 150-70; Reproduced: p. 155 url: Bolton, Theodore and Harry Lorin Binsee. "John Singleton Copley." The Antiquarian. 15:6 (December, 1930). p. 76-84. page number: Mentioned: p. 76-84; Reproduced: p. 80 url: Parker, Barbara Neville, and Anne Bolling Wheeler. John Singleton Copley; American Portraits in Oil, Pastel, and Miniature with Biographical Sketches. Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1938. page number: Mentioned: p. 90-91; Reproduced: plate 98 url: Sellers, Charles Coleman. "Mezzotint Prototypes of Colonial Portraiture: A Survey Based on the Research of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr." The Art Quarterly. 20:4 (Winter, 1957). p. 407-68. page number: Mentioned: p. 407-68; Reproduced: p. 448, fig. 37A url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 530 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n98 Belknap, Waldron Phoenix, Jr. American Colonial Painting: Materials for a History. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1959. page number: Reproduced: p. 307, no. 40A, plate XXXVI url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 160 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n184 Prown, Jules David. John Singleton Copley: In America 1738-1774. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 216, fig. 261 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 160 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n184 Cleveland Museum of Art. "A Check List: American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in The Cleveland Museum of Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 60:1 (January, 1973). p. 1-36. page number: Mentioned: p. 24, fig. 41 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 198 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n218 Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 114 url: Turner, Evan H. Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 46 url: Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. page number: Reproduced: p. 43 url: Tieken, Nancy B., et. al. American Art from the Currier Gallery of Art. New York: The American Federation of Arts, 1995 page number: Reproduced: p. X, cat. 1 url: Hecksher, Morrison H. "Copley's Picture Frames." John Singleton Copley in America. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995. page number: Mentioned: p. 151 url: Barratt, Carrie Rebora. John Singleton Copley and Margaret Kemble Gage: Turkish Fashion in 18th-Century America. San Diego, CA: Putnam Foundation, 1998. page number: Reproduced: p. 17, cat. 3 url: Cole, Mark. "Two by Copley." Cleveland Art. 46 (October, 2006). page number: Reproduced: p. 7 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2006-08/page/6 Adams, Henry. What's American About American Art?: A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008. page number: Reproduced: p. 9, fig. 1 url: Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952. page number: Reproduced: p. 15 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1952/page/n15/mode/2up --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.527/1915.527_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.527/1915.527_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.527/1915.527_full.tif