Charles Woodbury
John Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1921
Smithsonian
Institution, National Portrait Gallery
Oil on canvas.
71.4 x 41.8 cm (28 1/8 x 16 1/2 in.)
Accession
Number: 77.244
Jpg: The
Athenaeum
Charles Herbert Woodbury,
American Painter (1864-1940) He was a fellow painter, teacher and
illistrator.
At the age of fifteen, he was the youngest exhibitors of the Boston Art
Club, having exhibited a painting in the inaugural exhibition of the
new club house in 1882.
In addition to the Art Club, he was a member of the Copley Society, the
Boston Water Color Club, the Boston Society of Water Color Painters,
the Guild of Boston Artists, the Society of American Artists, and in
1907 was elected full member of the National Academy of Design.
With good friend Hermann Dudley Murphy he made several trips to Jamaica
and St. Thomas. In 1922 his book, Observation: Visual Training
through Drawing was published.
(The
Brigham Galleries)
Notes:
Provenance:
Gift of
Woodbury, David O., Mr & Mrs, 1977.
Exhibitions:
Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts One Hundred Seventeenth Annual Exhibition,
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1922, no. 359.
Carnegie Institute 1922 International Exhibtion, Carnegie Institute,
Pittsburgh, 1922, no. 27.
Art Institute of Chicago Thirty Fifth Annual Exhibition, Art Institute
of Chicago, Chicago, 1922, no. 201.
National Academy of Design Ninety Ninth Annual Exhibition, National
Academy of Design, New York, 1923, no. 271.
Bibliography:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2003, no. 583.
McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
"National Portrait Gallery: Permanent Collection Illustrated
Checklist," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Instit. Press, 1987, pg. 310.
Illustration:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2003, pg. 248.
"National Portrait Gallery: Permanent Collection Illustrated
Checklist," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Instit. Press, 1987, pg. 310.
SIRIS # IAP 81690029
|
