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31.3 U.S. Portraits, Women
Johnson’s paintings of women are often his best portraits, exhibiting a range of techniques and emphasizing their intelligent faces even when enwrapped in sumptuous fabrics, such as we see in Edwina Booth. —PH
Hills no. 31.3.53
Baur no. 262
Catharine Dusenbury Shelden
Philadelphia Museum of Art title: Portrait of Mrs. Allan Shelden
Alternate titles: Mrs. Allan Shelden; Portrait of a Lady
c.1885
Oil on canvas
36 1/4 x 30 1/8 in. (92.1 x 76.5 cm)
Initialed lower left: E.J.
Provenance
Private collection (George Kriehn, agent), by August 1925
Alex Simpson, Jr., August 1925
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1928
Exhibitions
1939 Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906, January 18, 1939–February 26, 1940. (Exhibition catalogue: Baur 1940), no. 262, as Mrs. Allan Shelden.1940 Harrisburg Art Association
Harrisburg Art Association, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1940.References
American Magazine of Art 1929
"Philadelphia Water Color Club Twenty-Sixth Annual Exhibition." American Magazine of Art (New York) (January 1929), as Portrait of a Lady.Baur 1940
Baur, John I. H. An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1940. Exhibition catalogue (1939 Brooklyn Museum), pp. 55, 72, no. 262, as Mrs. Allan Shelden.Scott, Dugan, and Paschetto 1994
Scott, Curtis R., Owen Hess Dugan, and John Paschetto, eds. Paintings from Europe and the Americas in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: A Concise Catalogue. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1994, p. 286.6Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 1984-11-29; Hills saw?
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Shelden, Catharine Butler Dusenbury
Biography:
Catharine Butler Dusenbury Shelden (1830–1916). Wife of Henry D. Shelden.
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Record last updated July 29, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Catharine Dusenbury Shelden, c.1885 (Hills no. 31.3.53)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=760 (accessed on May 2, 2024).