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
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creditline: Gift of Ettie Stettheimer
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culture: America, 20th century
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
* 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.
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.
New York, Durlacher Bros., Florine Stettheimer: One Man Show (29 October-23 November 1963).
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.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Florine Stettheimer: Manhattan Fantastica (13 July-5 November 1995) illus. p. 36; listed p. 138.
Munich, Germany, Lenbachhaus, Florine Stettheimer (27 September 2014-1 April 2015).
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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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Although on her deathbed Florine Stettheimer instructed that all her paintings be destroyed, her younger sister instead donated many of them to various museums, including this one.
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Along with her sisters, Stettheimer graciously hosted social gatherings for New York avant-garde cultural luminaries. These events often provided subject matter for her paintings, which brim with incidental detail. This example pays homage to a weekend picnic held at the family’s summer home on the banks of the Hudson River. In the background at the upper right, Stettheimer works at her easel; in the foreground at lower left, photographer Edward Steichen poses and snaps the seated figure of artist Marcel Duchamp. Dismissed as not being serious art in their day, almost all of Stettheimer’s paintings remained unsold upon her death. Afterward, the artist’s sister Ettie—seen here wearing a red coat standing behind Duchamp with her arms outstretched—donated many of them to various museums, including this work.
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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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