id: 172929
accession number: 1921.2552
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George Washington, c. 1790s. America, 18th century. Oil on canvas; unframed: 52.7 x 43.2 cm (20 3/4 x 17 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1921.2552
title: George Washington
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creation date: c. 1790s
creation date earliest: 1790
creation date latest: 1799
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creditline: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
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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
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measurements: Unframed: 52.7 x 43.2 cm (20 3/4 x 17 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00
The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
title: The Face of Liberty
opening date: 1975-12-23T05:00:00
The Face of Liberty. Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX (organizer) (December 23, 1975-February 8, 1976).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Philadelphia, Centennial Exposition (1876)', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'Washington, D.C., United States National Museum, (1884).', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits (1886).', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'New York, Metropolitan Opera House, Washington Centennial (Opened 17 April1889).', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': "Chicago, World's Columbian Exposition, Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits (1893).", 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'Richmond, VA, Virginia House, Historical Portraits, 1585-183- (1929), no.17.', 'opening_date': '1929-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, George Washington Bicentennial Historical Loan Exhibition of Portraits of George Washington and His Associates (5 March-24 November 1932), cat. no. 52, pp. 27-28, not illus.', 'opening_date': '1932-03-05T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 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. 54, p. 30, illus.', 'opening_date': '1936-06-26T00:00:00'}
* {'description': "Paris, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Trois Siécles d'Art aux États-Unis (May-July 1938), cat. no. 185, not illus. exhibition in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York.", 'opening_date': '1938-05-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Survey of American Painting (October 1940-??), cat. no. 60, repr. on front cover.', 'opening_date': '1940-10-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Alexandria, VA, Alexandria Association, Portraits of Early Alexandrians (1956).', 'opening_date': '1956-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Newark, NJ, The Newark Museum, Early New Jersey Artists: 18th and 19th Centuries (7 March-19 May 1957), cat. no. 109, not illus.', 'opening_date': '1957-03-07T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Allentown, PA, Allentown Art Museum, The World of Benjamin West (1962), illus. cat. no. 67, p. 83.', 'opening_date': '1962-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, The Face of Liberty: Founders of the United States (23 December 1975-8 February 1976), cat. no. 36, illus. p. 138.', 'opening_date': '1975-12-23T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Washington, D.C., The Library of Congress, James Madison and the Search for Nationhood (17 November 1981-31 May 1982), no cat. number, illus. p. 86; inaugural exhibition held in the James Madison Memorial Building of the Library of Congress.', 'opening_date': '1981-11-17T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Washington, D.C., The Library of Congress, Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson Building, The American Solution: Origins of the United States Constitution (14 May-17 September 1987), illus.', 'opening_date': '1987-05-14T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Thomas Shields, Alexandria, VA (c. 1815, by descent to Mr. Shield's daughter); by descent to George L. McKean, Chicago (Shields' grandson); to his widow, Blanche F. McKean, Chicago
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
L. P. “Joseph Wright’s Portrait of Washington.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 8, no. 6/7 (June/July 1921): 90–92.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 90-92
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136493
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. 527
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n97
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. 161
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n185
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. 161
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n185
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. 199
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n219
Cleveland Museum of Art. Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland], 1945.
page number: Reproduced: p. 16
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1952/page/n17/mode/2up
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