id: 147520 accession number: 1973.30 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.30 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:34.551000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c.1895 creation date earliest: 1890 creation date latest: 1900 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 19th century technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * John F. Peto (American, 1854–1907) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed upper right: "J F P" translation: remark: --- 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). --- 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'} --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1973- footnotes: citations: (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1972-1973 footnotes: citations: Alice Kaplan [1903-1995], New York, NY1 date: Probably 1965-1972 footnotes: *
1 Alice Kaplan was a prominent New York City art collector and patron.  Presumably, she purchased the painting from Kennedy Galleries, possibly in 1965.
citations: (Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY, probably sold to Alice Kaplan) date: By 1965 footnotes: citations: Howard Keyser III [1904-1980], Island Heights, NJ and Philadelphia, PA, consigned to the Kennedy Galleries 1 date: By 1947 - by 1965 footnotes: *
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).
citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Alfred Victor Frankenstein papers, 1861-1980, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution [Reels 1376-1377]. page number: url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. "American Painting." Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, no date. page number: Mentioned and reproduced (unpaginated pamphlet) url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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) url: "This man's painting looks like collage." Sun Press, October 18, 1973. page number: Mentioned (unpaginated) url: 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 url: 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 url: 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. 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European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. page number: Reproduced: p.177 url: Capek, Michael. Artistic Trickery: The Tradition of Trompe L'oeil Art. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Company, 1995. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p.45 url: Pelfrey, Robert H. Art and Mass Media. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1996. page number: Mentioned: p.275; Reproduced: p.276 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.30/1973.30_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.30/1973.30_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.30/1973.30_full.tif