id: 109245 accession number: 1927.393 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1927.393 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:09.424000 Elizabeth Shewell West and Her Son, Raphael, c. 1770. Benjamin West (American, 1738–1820). Oil on canvas; framed: 88 x 87.5 x 9 cm (34 5/8 x 34 7/16 x 3 9/16 in.); unframed: 66.5 x 66.3 cm (26 3/16 x 26 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Charles W. Harkness Gift 1927.393 title: Elizabeth Shewell West and Her Son, Raphael title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1770 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1775 current location: 204 Colonial American creditline: The Charles W. Harkness Gift copyright: --- culture: America, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Benjamin West (American, 1738–1820) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 88 x 87.5 x 9 cm (34 5/8 x 34 7/16 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 66.5 x 66.3 cm (26 3/16 x 26 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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: Style, Truth and the Portrait opening date: 1963-10-01T04:00:00 Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963). title: The American Portrait opening date: 1965-09-14T04:00:00 The American Portrait. Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA (organizer) (September 14-October 31, 1965). title: American Masters opening date: 1966-09-14T04:00:00 American Masters. Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI (organizer) (September 14-October 19, 1966). title: CMA @ Oberlin - American Portraits opening date: 2006-08-29T00:00:00 CMA @ Oberlin - American Portraits. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 29-December 17, 2006). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'London, The Royal Academy of Arts, (1770), see Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their Work from its Foundation in 1769 to 1904 p. 212, no. 198.', 'opening_date': '1904-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibtion of The Cleveland Museum of Art; The Official Great Lakes Exposition (26 January-4 October 1936), no. 53, p. 30.', 'opening_date': '1936-01-26T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Benjamin West 1738-1820 (1938), cat. no. 18, not illus.', 'opening_date': '1938-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Akron, Akron Art Institute, 40 American Painters: A Survey of American Painting from Colonial to Modern Times, fo the Opening of the Institute (December, 1945), illus. cat. no. 2.', 'opening_date': '1945-12-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, 10th Anniversary Exhibition (October, 1946), cat. no. 12, not illus.', 'opening_date': '1946-10-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Dayton, Dayton Art Institute, The Artist and His Family (3 March-April, 1950), cat. no. 38.', 'opening_date': '1950-03-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Style, Truth, and the Portrait (1 October-10 November 1963) cat. no. 46, illus.', 'opening_date': '1963-10-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Greensburg, PA, The Westmoreland Country Museum of Art, The American Portrait (19 September-31 October 1965)', 'opening_date': '1965-09-19T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Kalamazoo, MI, Kalamazoo Art Center, Paintings by American Masters: Fifth Anniversary Exhibition (14 September-19 October 1966), illus. p. 6.', 'opening_date': '1966-09-14T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1927- footnotes: citations: Edward S. Harkness [1874-1940], New York, NY, to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1916-1927 footnotes: citations: Mary Warden Harkness [1864-1916], New York, NY, by bequest to her brother-in-law Edward S. Harkness date: 1916 footnotes: *