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accession number: 1915.527
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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
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creation date: 1769
creation date earliest: 1769
creation date latest: 1769
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creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
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culture: America, 18th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815) - artist
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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.)
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inscription: Signed lower right: "JSCp. 1769 [JSC in monogram]"
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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).
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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'}
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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).
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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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.
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Turner, Evan H. Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p. 46
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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
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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
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Hecksher, Morrison H. "Copley's Picture Frames." John Singleton Copley in America. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995.
page number: Mentioned: p. 151
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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
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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
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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
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