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accession number:	1923.416
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The Ghost Story, 1887. Walter MacEwen (American, 1860–1943). Oil on canvas; unframed: 121 x 191.5 cm (47 5/8 x 75 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness 1923.416

title:				The Ghost Story
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creation date:			1887
creation date earliest:		1887
creation date latest:		1887
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creditline:			Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness
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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

* Walter MacEwen (American, 1860–1943)  - artist

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measurements: Unframed: 121 x 191.5 cm (47 5/8 x 75 3/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed upper left:  W. McEWEN
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914
	opening date:   2009-09-26T00:00:00
	<i>Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914</i>. Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (organizer) (September 26, 2009-January 3, 2010).

	title:		Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art
	opening date:   2021-06-12T04:00:00
	<i>Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art</i>. The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (June 12-September 5, 2021); Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (October 7, 2021-January 2, 2022); Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (organizer) (February 19-May 15, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Paris, Le Salon de 1888 (1888), p. 28-9, ill. p. 28.', 'opening_date': None}

* {'description': 'Paris, Universal Exposition, (1889) cat. no. 203; catalogue reproduced in Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition listed and illus. p. 285; painting won the Silver Medal (Deuxième Medaille).', 'opening_date': None}

* {'description': 'Paris 1889 states page 182-183 that this work was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1890, but no records from the AIC can be found to confirm this.', 'opening_date': None}

* {'description': 'Miliken’s July 1923 Bulletin article notes that with this painting, MacEwen was Hors Concours at Paris, 1890.', 'opening_date': '1923-07-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Chicago, IL, United States, Gallery 9, Oil Paintings, Fine Arts Palace, World’s Columbian Exposition (1893); listed cat. no. 801, p. 59 as Telling Ghost Stories.', 'opening_date': None}

* {'description': 'Antwerp, Universal Exposition (1894); painting won Medaille d’Honneur.', 'opening_date': None}

* {'description': 'Vienna, International Exposition, (1902); painting won Grande Medaille d’Or .', 'opening_date': '1902-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Cleveland, OH, East Cleveland Public Library (14 March - 27 April 1978).', 'opening_date': '1978-03-14T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Detroit, MI, Detroit Institute of Arts, The Quest for Unity: American Art Between World’s Fairs, 1876-1893 (22 August - 30 October 1983), no. 150.', 'opening_date': '1983-08-22T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition (25 January - 15 April 1990), p. 182-3, no. 203, p. 285, color ill. p. 184.', 'opening_date': '1990-01-25T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (9/26/2009 - 1/3/2010): "Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914", ex. cat. no. 34, p. 148-149.', 'opening_date': '2009-09-26T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Mrs. Edward S. Harkness.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	"The Ghost Story by Walter McEwen." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>10, no. 7 (July, 1923): 123-130.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 124-125
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	Boller, Susanne. "The Munich Men - Amerikanische Maler der Munchner Schule." In <em>Es war einmal in Amerika: 300 Jahre US-Amerikanische Kunst.</em> Barbara Schaefer and Anita Hachmann. Köln: Wienand Verlag : Wallraf-Richartz-Museum &amp; Fondation Corboud, 2018.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 109. Abb. 8
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	Barendse, Linda. <em>De Schilders Langs de IJssel. </em>Zwolle: WBOOKS, 2019.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 78, afb. 67
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	Naeem, Asma. <em>Out of Earshot: Sound, Technology, and Power in American Art, 1860-1900</em>. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2020.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 148, fig. 60
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IMAGES

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full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.416/1923.416_full.tif