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accession number: 2018.78
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Washing the White Blood from Daniel Boone, 1939. Jared French (American, 1905–1988). Tempera on masonite; 71.1 x 77.5 cm (28 x 30 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of William Kelly Simpson in memory of his wife Marilyn M. Simpson and her grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 2018.78
title: Washing the White Blood from Daniel Boone
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creation date: 1939
creation date earliest: 1939
creation date latest: 1939
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creditline: Bequest of William Kelly Simpson in memory of his wife Marilyn M. Simpson and her grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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culture: America
technique: tempera on masonite
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Jared French (American, 1905–1988) - artist
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measurements: 71.1 x 77.5 cm (28 x 30 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (January 10-February 18, 1940).
Fine Arts Exhibition. Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, CA (May 25-September 29, 1940).
9 American Artists. Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL (February 3-28, 1942).
Paintings and Drawings by Jared French. Edwin Hewitt Gallery, New York, NY (April 21-May 12, 1955), as The Baptism.
Realism and Realities: The Other Side of American Painting, 1940-1960. Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ (January 17-March 26, 1982); Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL (April 15-June 13, 1982); The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD (September 7-October 18, 1982).
Cadmus, French, and Tooker: The Early Years. Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY (March 1-May 5, 1990).
The Rediscovery of Jared French. Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, NY (April 23-May 29, 1992); Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA (October 2-November 29, 1992).
American Realism Between the Wars, 1919-1941. Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY (April 3-June 5, 1994).
The WPA Decade, 1933-1943: Art Across America. Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY (August 15-October 31, 2004).
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PROVENANCE
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fun fact:
In 1940, a closeted gay art critic punningly described this painting as a "queer picture."
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Washing the White Blood from Daniel Boone relates an episode in the life of the frontiersman: his adoption ritual performed upon his temporary capture by the Shawnee people. One of the first American artists whose same-sex desires were recognized by his contemporaries, French homoeroticized the narrative by substituting men for the women who were thought to have performed the rite.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Schwartz, Constance, and Franklin Hill Perrell. American Realism Between the Wars: 1919-1941. Exh. Cat. New York: Nassau County Museum of Art, 1994.
page number: Mentioned: pp.29,60; Reproduced: p.53
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San Francisco (Calif.) Golden Gate International Exposition. Contemporary Art; Official Catalog. Department of Fine Arts, Division of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture. 1939.
page number: Mentioned: p.131
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1940 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art. Exh. Cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940.
page number: Mentioned: p.5 (unpaginated)
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McBride, Henry. "At the Whitney Museum: A Show of Native Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings and Prints." The New York Sun, January 13, 1940.
page number: Mentioned: p.11
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Brenning, Margaret. "The Whitney's Enlarged Annual." The Magazine of Art, Vol.33 (February 1940).
page number: Mentioned: p.102
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Jewett, Eleanor. "Arts Club Puts Works of Nine Artists on View." Chicago Daily Tribune, February 3, 1942.
page number: Mentioned: p.19
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Jewett, Eleanor. "Nine American Artists Exhibit in Modern Show." Chicago Sunday Tribune, February 8, 1942.
page number: Mentioned: p.3
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Edwin Hewitt Gallery. Paintings and Drawings by Jared French. Exh. Cat. New York: Edwin Hewitt Gallery, 1955.
page number: Mentioned (unpaginated)
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Berman, Greta, and Jeffrey Wechsler. Realism and Realities: The Other Side of American Painting, 1940-1960. Exh. Cat. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Art Gallery, 1982.
page number: Mentioned: pp.21-22,189; Reproduced: p.22
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Wechsler, Jeffrey. "Magic Realism: Defining the Indefinite." Art Journal, vol.45, no.4 (Winter 1985).
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p.295
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Loftin, Ann Jamison, ed. Museum & Arts Washington Vol.5, No.2 (March/April 1989).
page number: Reproduced: p.108
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Phelps, Robert, ed. with Jerry Rosco. Continual Lessons: The Journals of Glenway Wescott, 1937-1955. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990.
page number: Mentioned: p.60; Reproduced: pp.301-302
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Cadmus, French, and Tooker: The Early Years. Exh. Cat. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1990.
page number: Mentioned: pp.1,2,3,6 (unpaginated)
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Wolff, Theodore F. "Artists of the Enigmatic." The Christian Science Monitor, April 13, 1990.
page number: Mentioned
url: https://www.csmonitor.com/1990/0413/lsupr.html
Grimes, Nancy. "Paul Cadmus, Jared French, George Tooker." Art in America 89 (September 1990).
page number: Mentioned: p.159
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Christie's, New York. Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries. November 30, 1990. Lot 209.
page number: Reproduced: p.225
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French, Jared, and Jeffrey Wechsler. The Rediscovery of Jared French. New York: Midtown Payson Galleries, 1992.
page number: Mentioned: p.8 (unpaginated)
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Cotter, Holland. "Art in Review." The New York Times, May 22, 1992.
page number: Mentioned: p.C22
url: https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/22/arts/art-in-review-924192.html
Grimes, Nancy, and Jared French. Jared French's Myths. San Francisco, Calif: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1993.
page number: Mentioned: p.XII; Reproduced: p.23 (unpaginated)
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Cole, Mark. "Jared French (1905-1988)." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Delaware, 1999.
page number: Mentioned: pp.204-213, 379; Reproduced: p.487
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Summers, Claude J. The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2004.
page number: Mentioned: p.145
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Cheles, Luciano. "A century-old passion: Piero della Francesca in America." In Nella citta di Piero, 5-29. Milton Glaser. Exh. Cat. Sansepolcro, Italy: Casa di Piero della Francesca, in association with Milton Glaser, Inc., 2007.
page number: Mentioned: p.18; Reproduced: p.18
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Bonhams, New York. American Paintings. November 28, 2007. Lot 123.
page number: Reproduced: p.92 (preliminary sketch)
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Panzetta, Alfonso, and Jared French. Jared French by Jared French: 600 opere inedite dal fondo italiano dell'artista. Torino: Umberto Allemandi & C., 2010.
page number: Mentioned: p.23; Reproduced: pp.248, 322
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Ryden, Wendy, and Ian Marshall. Reading, Writing, and the Rhetorics of Whiteness. New York: Routledge, 2012.
page number: Mentioned: pp.152-159; Reproduced: p.153
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Barnett, Timothy. "Ryden, Wendy, and Ian Marshall. Reading, Writing, and the Rhetorics of Whiteness. New York: Routledge, 2012. 190 pp." Review of Reading, Writing, and the Rhetorics of Whiteness, by Wendy Ryden and Ian Marshall. Composition Forum 27 (Spring 2013).
page number: Mentioned
url: compositionforum.com/issue/27/barnett-reading-writing-review.php
Schreiber, Michael. One-Man Show: The Life and Art of Bernard Perlin. Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2016.
page number: Mentioned: p.67
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Cheles, Luciano. "Piero della Francesca e l'arte americana." In Piero della Francesca: indagine su un mito, 343-358. Antonio Paolucci. Exh. Cat. Forli: Musei San Domenico, in association with Silvana editoriale, 2016.
page number: Mentioned: p.352; Reproduced: p.350
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Christies, New York. American Art. November 14-21, 2017. Lot 130.
page number: Reproduced: p.30 (study)
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Sachar, Emily. "Jared French's State Park: A Contextual Study." MA thesis, Hunter College, The City University of New York, New York, 2017.
page number: Mentioned: pp.39,52-53, 55; Reproduced: p.134
url: academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/254/
Cole, Mark. "Acquisitions 2018: American Painting and Sculpture (Until 1960)." Cleveland Art, Vol.54.
page number: Mentioned: p.17; Reproduced: p.17
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Cole, Mark. “Acquisitions 2018: American Painting and Sculpture (Until 1960).” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 59, no. 2 (March/April 2019): 16-17.
page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 17.
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Earnest, Jarrett, Ann Morris Reynolds, Kenneth E. Silver, and Michael Schreiber. The Young and Evil: Queer Modernism in New York, 1930-1955. New York: David Zwirner Books, 2019.
page number: Mentioned: p.80
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Edgecombe, Rodney. "Jared French's Iconic Enigmas." The Gay and Lesbian Review 11 (July-August 2004).
page number: Mentioned: p.15
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