id: 95183
accession number: 1915.76
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Capri Lace Maker, 1884. George B. Butler (American, 1838–1907). Oil on canvas; unframed: 160 x 84.5 cm (63 x 33 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Helen C. Butler 1915.76
title: Capri Lace Maker
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creation date: 1884
creation date earliest: 1884
creation date latest: 1884
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creditline: Gift of Helen C. Butler
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culture: America, 19th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* George B. Butler (American, 1838–1907) - artist
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measurements: Unframed: 160 x 84.5 cm (63 x 33 1/4 in.)
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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: 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: Cleveland Collects American Art of the Gilded Age
opening date: 2003-02-23T00:00:00
Cleveland Collects American Art of the Gilded Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 23-May 18, 2003).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* New York, National Academy of Design, Annual Exhibition (1884), no. 356.
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PROVENANCE
Artist's daughter through 1915.
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George Butler studied with the American artist Thomas Hicks in New York City before going to Paris in 1859 to study with Thomas Couture, whose most famous pupils included Édouard Manet and Puvis de Chavannes. He returned to the United States and served in the Union Army during the Civil War, at which point he lost his right arm. He went to Italy in 1875, where he remained for a number of years. During his stay abroad, Butler painted Capri Lace Maker. Although to a contemporary viewer this work may seem to be a fairly traditional, conservative composition, the bravura of the brushwork and the thick layers of pigment mark the European influence on Butler's style. An accomplished academic painter, Butler was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1873 and exhibited this work there in 1884. A gift of the artist's daughter, Capri Lace Maker was the first painting to enter the museum's collection on February 2, 1915.
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalog of the Inaugural Exhibition, June 6-September 20, 1916. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.
page number: cat. no. 4
url: https://archive.org/details/catalogueofinaug00clevuoft/page/n8/mode/2up
"Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 1:4 (February, 1915).
page number: Mentioned: p. 11
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"The Collection of Painting." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2:2 (July, 1915).
page number: Mentioned: p. 5; Reproduced: p. 2
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