id: 97421 accession number: 1916.998 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.998 updated: 2020-11-04 19:16:17.470000 "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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1819 creation date earliest: 1814 creation date latest: 1824 current location: creditline: Gift of J. H. Wade copyright: --- culture: America, 19th century technique: oil on wood department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Samuel Lovett Waldo (American, 1783-1861) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- 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. --- PROVENANCE Albert Rosenthal, Philadelphia (1916; acquired by The Cleveland Museum of Art from J. H. Wade in 1916. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.998/1916.998_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.998/1916.998_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.998/1916.998_full.tif