id: 126059
accession number: 1948.28
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.28
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Sunday Afternoon in the Country, 1917. Florine Stettheimer (American, 1871–1944). Oil on canvas; framed: 139 x 103.5 x 8.3 cm (54 3/4 x 40 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.); unframed: 128 x 92.5 cm (50 3/8 x 36 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Ettie Stettheimer 1948.28
title: Sunday Afternoon in the Country
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creation date: 1917
creation date earliest: 1917
creation date latest: 1917
current location: 226A American Modern
creditline: Gift of Ettie Stettheimer
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culture: America
technique: oil on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Florine Stettheimer (American, 1871–1944) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 139 x 103.5 x 8.3 cm (54 3/4 x 40 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.); Unframed: 128 x 92.5 cm (50 3/8 x 36 7/16 in.)
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inscription: Signed lower left: "19 FS 17 [FS in monogram]"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Florine Stettheimer: One Man Show
opening date: 1963-10-29T05:00:00
Florine Stettheimer: One Man Show. Durlacher Brothers, New York, NY (organizer) (October 29-November 23, 1963).
title: Florine Stettheimer: Still Lifes, Portraits, and Pageants, 1910-1942
opening date: 1980-03-04T05:00:00
Florine Stettheimer: Still Lifes, Portraits, and Pageants, 1910-1942. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, MA (organizer) (March 4-April 27, 1980).
title: Florine Stettheimer
opening date: 2014-09-27T00:00:00
Florine Stettheimer. Lenbachhaus, München, Germany (organizer) (September 27, 2014-January 4, 2015).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Florine Stettheimer (1946); traveled to Chicago, Arts Club (1947); to San Francisco, De Young Memorial Museum (1947); illus. plate 14, listed p. 54; ownership attributed to Durlacher Bros, New York.', 'opening_date': '1946-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts (3-27 April 1951), no catalogue but see Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts (Annual Report, 1951-1952) vol. 31, no. 2, p. 29.', 'opening_date': '1951-04-03T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'New York, Durlacher Bros., Florine Stettheimer: One Man Show (29 October-23 November 1963).', 'opening_date': '1963-10-29T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Florine Stettheimer: Still Lifes, Portraits and Pageants 1910 to 1942 (4 March-27 April 1980); traveled to San Antonio, TX, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute (7 July-15 August 1980); to Poughkeepsie, NY, Vassar College Art Gallery (28 September-9 November 1980); illus. fig. 6, listed. cat. no. 8.', 'opening_date': '1980-03-04T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Florine Stettheimer: Manhattan Fantastica (13 July-5 November 1995) illus. p. 36; listed p. 138.', 'opening_date': '1995-07-13T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Munich, Germany, Lenbachhaus, Florine Stettheimer (27 September 2014-1 April 2015).', 'opening_date': '2014-09-27T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Ettie Stettheimer (Durlacher Brothers, New York), given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: ?–1948
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1948–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Mulcahy, Susan, "Why Were So Many Stettheimer Art Works Up for Sale? Not All Were Real," New York Times, February 7, 2021.
page number: P. C-1
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"Part II. Annual Report Issue for the Year 1948." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 36, no. 6 (June 1949): 111-42.
page number: Mentioned: P. 113
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141566
Tyler, Parker. Florine Stettheimer: A Life in Art. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1963.
page number: Reproduced: P. 34-36; Mentioned: P. 90, 131-134, 176
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"Reviews and Previews." ARTnews 62, no. 8 (December 1963): 10-14, 50-58, 68.
page number: Reproduced: P. 13
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Cullinan, Helen. "Art & Artists: Brotherly Love for Sisters." The Plain Dealer (June 9, 1974): 16E.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 16E
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Nochlin, Linda. “Florine Stettheimer: Rococo Subversive.” Art in America 68, no. 7 (September 1980): 64–83.
page number: Reproduced: P. 71
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Rosenblum, Naomi. A World History of Photography. New York, N.Y.: Abbeville Press, 1984.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 507-508, fig. 653
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Rosenblum, Naomi. A World History of Photography. New York: Abbeville Press, 1989.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 507-508, fig. 653
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Watson, Steven. Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: P. 119
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Watson, Steven. “Three Sisters.” Art & Antiques 9, no. 5 (May 1992): 60–67.
page number: Reproduced: P. 65
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Bloemink, Barbara J. The Life and Art of Florine Stettheimer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
page number: Reproduced: P. 77, no. 46
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Winkfield, Trevor. 1996. “Very Rich Hours.” Art in America 84 (July 1996): 64–69.
page number: Reproduced: P. 67
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Rosenblum, Naomi. A World History of Photography. New York: Abbeville Press, 1997.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 508-509, fig. 653
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Marquis, Alice Goldfarb. Marchel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare : a Biography. Boston: MFA Publications, 2002.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 117-118
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Thum, Carol. "Personal Favorite." Cleveland Museum of Art 44, no. 5 (May 2004): 15.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 15
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Mühling, Matthias, Karin Althaus, Susanne Böller, Gerrit Jackson, and Florine Stettheimer. Florine Stettheimer. Munich, Germany: Hirmer, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 22-23, no. 11
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Brown, Stephen, Georgiana Uhlyarik, Cecily Brown, and Jens Hoffmann. Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017.
page number: Reproduced: P. 105
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Cristia, Cintia. "Painting Jazz: Sound, Music, and Rhythm In the Work of Florine Stettheimer." In Florine Stettheimer: New Directions in Multimodal Modernism. Irene Gammel, and Suzanne Zelazo, 179-199. Toronto: Book*hug Press, 2019.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 187-188, fig. 9.3
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Althaus, Karin, Florine Stettheimer, Susanne Böller, and Russell Stockman. Florine Stettheimer: the great masters of art. 2020, 22.
page number: Reproduced; p. 22, fig 10.
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