id: 97421
accession number: 1916.998
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"Old Pat," The Independent Beggar, c. 1819. Samuel Lovett Waldo (American, 1783–1861). Oil on wood; framed: 68 x 57 x 7 cm (26 3/4 x 22 7/16 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 47.8 x 36.9 cm (18 13/16 x 14 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade 1916.998
title: "Old Pat," The Independent Beggar
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creation date: c. 1819
creation date earliest: 1814
creation date latest: 1824
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creditline: Gift of J. H. Wade
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culture: America, 19th century
technique: oil on wood
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Samuel Lovett Waldo (American, 1783–1861) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 68 x 57 x 7 cm (26 3/4 x 22 7/16 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 47.8 x 36.9 cm (18 13/16 x 14 1/2 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: 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 12, 1936).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Inaugural Exhibition (6 June-20 September, 1916), p. 40, cat. no. 138.
Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition (26 June-4 October, 1936), p. 25, cat. no. 33.
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PROVENANCE
Albert Rosenthal, Philadelphia (1916; acquired by The Cleveland Museum of Art from J. H. Wade in 1916.
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With this study of a disheveled person—perhaps a man named Patrick MacGregor—the popular society portraitist Samuel Waldo challenged assumptions that successful New Yorkers may have made about their city's prosperity. Waldo sold many copies of an engraving portraying "Old Pat" and made a finished portrait of him called The Beggar's Dessert that included a meager bone and bowl as attributes. In this painting, the sitter's gaunt, careworn features suggest considering him in sympathetic terms, yet his forceful gaze presents him as someone who cannot easily be made into an object of pity.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
"Exhibitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 3, no. 4 (1916): 1-3.
page number: Mentioned: p. 3
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136053
"Jarvis's Portrait of Thomas Apthorp Cooper." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 5, no. 2/3 (1918): 20.
page number: Mentioned: p. 20
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136171
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.
page number: Reproduced: p. 9
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n11
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.
page number: Reproduced: p. 9
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n13
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IMAGES
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