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accession number: 1973.30
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Card Rack with a Jack of Hearts, c.1895. John F. Peto (American, 1854–1907). Oil on canvas; framed: 95.9 x 83.2 x 4.4 cm (37 3/4 x 32 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.); unframed: 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1973.30
title: Card Rack with a Jack of Hearts
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creation date: c.1895
creation date earliest: 1890
creation date latest: 1900
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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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
* John F. Peto (American, 1854–1907) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 95.9 x 83.2 x 4.4 cm (37 3/4 x 32 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.)
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inscription: Signed upper right: "J F P"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1973
opening date: 1974-01-30T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1973. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974).
title: Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976
opening date: 1976-03-07T05:00:00
Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (March 7-April 11, 1976); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (May 2-June 13, 1976); The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (July 4-August 15, 1976); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 8-October 10, 1976).
title: The Magic of Still Life
opening date: 1986-11-04T05:00:00
The Magic of Still Life. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 4, 1986-February 1, 1987).
title: Cleveland Collects American Art of the Gilded Age
opening date: 2003-02-23T00:00:00
Cleveland Collects American Art of the Gilded Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 23-May 18, 2003).
title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00
The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, John F. Peto (1-24 March 1950); traveled to Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum of Art (11 April-21 May 1950); San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor (10 June-9 July 1950); cat. no. 36, not illus.', 'opening_date': '1950-04-11T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries Inc., Faces and Places: Changing Images of 19th Century America (5 December 1972-6 January 1973)', 'opening_date': '1972-12-05T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Heritage and Horizon: American Painting, 1776-1976 (6 March-11 April 1976); Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts (5 May-13 June 1976); Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art (4 July-15 August 1976); Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art (8 September-10 October 1976), illus. cat. no. 24.', 'opening_date': '1976-03-06T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Important Information Inside: The Art of John F. Peto and the Idea of Still-Life Painting in Nineteenth-Century America (16 January-29 May 1983); traveled to Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum (15 July-18 September 1983), cat. no. 189, illus. p. 201.', 'opening_date': '1983-01-16T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art Still-Life Paintings in Gallery 222 (1992?), pamphlet which seems to have accompanied a small show of still-lifes owned by the CMA; the 8/92 at the end of the pamphlet seems to indicate that is when this show took place, but this could not be confirmed.', 'opening_date': '1992-08-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
date: 1973-
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(Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: 1972-1973
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Alice Kaplan [1903-1995], New York, NY1
date: Probably 1965-1972
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1 Alice Kaplan was a prominent New York City art collector and patron. Presumably, she purchased the painting from Kennedy Galleries, possibly in 1965.
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(Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY, probably sold to Alice Kaplan)
date: By 1965
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Howard Keyser III [1904-1980], Island Heights, NJ and Philadelphia, PA, consigned to the Kennedy Galleries 1
date: By 1947 - by 1965
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* 1 The circumstances of Keyser’s acquisition of the painting are unknown, but the scholarly record hints at two possible scenarios. According to Alfred V. Frankenstein, Peto sold a number of paintings to James M. Bryant [1853-1923], of Island Heights, NJ, and these paintings were dispersed among Bryant’s son-in-law, Howard Keyser, Jr. [1875-1959], and Keyser’s four children: James, Cheston, Mrs. William Wood, and Howard III. Alternatively, according to a 1964 article about Peto's studio, there was "a Mr. Keyser who had bought paintings from Peto through the years for a few dollars”; presumably, this references Howard Keyser, Jr., who in turn could have passed ownership of the Cleveland painting to his son, Howard Keyser III. We know for certain that Howard Keyser III had the painting by July 21, 1947, when Frankenstein compiled a list of the Peto paintings located in Keyser's Island Heights home (the Cleveland Peto is No. 7).
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Alfred Victor Frankenstein papers, 1861-1980, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution [Reels 1376-1377].
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. "American Painting." Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, no date.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced (unpaginated pamphlet)
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Frankenstein, Alfred. "Harnett, True and False." The Art Bulletin 31, No.1 (March 1949): 38-56.
page number: Mentioned (unpaginated): Fig.8 as "Rack picture"
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3047212
Brooklyn Museum, and Alfred V. Frankenstein. John F. Peto: Catalogue of the Exhibition with a Critical Biography by Alfred Frankenstein. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, 1950.
page number: Mentioned: p.48
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R[egina].S[oria]. "John F. Peto's Studio." Archives of American Art 4, No.1 (January 1964).
page number: Mentioned: p.8
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1557006
Stuart P. Feld, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, April 3, 2013, in CMA curatorial file.
page number: Mentioned: p.73; Reproduced: p.72
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Kennedy Galleries. "Recorders, Deceivers and Dreamers: A sampling of the variety and vitality of American painting." The Kennedy Quarterly 5, No.2 (January 1965).
page number: Mentioned: p.73; Reproduced: p.72
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Frankenstein, Alfred V. After the Hunt; William Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters, 1870-1900. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1969.
page number: Mentioned: p.xviii, 108; Reproduced (unpaginated)
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"This man's painting looks like collage." Sun Press, October 18, 1973.
page number: Mentioned (unpaginated)
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), and Detroit Institute of Arts. The Art Quarterly 37, No.1 (Spring 1974). New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974.
page number: Mentioned: p.100
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 61, No.2 (February 1974). Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.
page number: Mentioned: p.74; Reproduced: p.53
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513
Hinson, Tom E. "Eddy: New Shoes for H." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, No.10 (December 1975).
page number: Mentioned: p.296; Reproduced: p.297
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152614
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Detroit Institute of Arts, and Toledo Museum of Art. Heritage and Horizon: American Painting, 1776-1976. Exh. Cat. Toledo, OH: Toledo Museum of Art, 1976.
page number: Mentioned: pp.7, 40: Reproduced: p.40
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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. 236
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n256
Wilmerding, John. Important Information Inside: The Art of John F. Peto and the Idea of Still-Life Painting in Nineteenth-Century America. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1983.
page number: Mentioned: pp.204, 243, 254; Reproduced: p.201
url: nga.gov/research/publications/pdf-library/important-information-inside.html
Dreiss, Joseph. "John F. Peto." Arts Magazine 57, No.8 (April 1983).
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p.19
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p.138
url: archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n153/mode/2up
Wilmerding, John. American Views: Essays on American Art. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991.
page number: Mentioned: p.xvii, 297; Reproduced: p.299
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Still-Life Paintings in Gallery 222: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1992.
page number: Mentioned (unpaginated brochure)
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, and Alan Chong. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
page number: Reproduced: p.177
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Capek, Michael. Artistic Trickery: The Tradition of Trompe L'oeil Art. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Company, 1995.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p.45
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Pelfrey, Robert H. Art and Mass Media. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1996.
page number: Mentioned: p.275; Reproduced: p.276
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Wilmerding, John. Compass and Clock: Defining Moments in American Culture: 1800, 1850, 1900. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1999.
page number: Reproduced: p.201
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Sims, Lowery Stokes. The persistence of geometry: form, content, and culture in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.
page number: no. 50, p. 188, color repr. p. 26
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Adams, Henry. What's American about American art?: a gallery tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.
page number: Reproduced: p. 87, & p. 102 - 103
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Wilmerding, John. "Images of Lincoln in Peto's Late Paintings." Archives of American Art Journal 22, No.2 (1982).
page number: Mentioned: p.9; Reproduced: p.10
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1557400
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