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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Still Life-Strawberries, Nuts & c., cat. no. 154, lent by the artist.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, American Realists and Magic Realists, Feb. 10-Mar. 21, 1943, pp. 9, 63, cat. 13; traveled to Buffalo, Albright Gallery, Apr. 5-May 5; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, July 1-30; San Francisco Museum of Art, Aug. 23-Sept. 19; Art Gallery of Toronto, Nov. 12-Dec. 19; Cleveland Museum of Art, Jan. 1-29, 1944.

Milwaukee Art Center, Raphaelle Peale, Still Lifes and Portraits, January 15-February 15, 1959, cat. no. 4, as Still Life, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Graham, cat. by Charles Coleman Sellers; traveled to New York, M. Knoedler & Company, March 2- March 31, 1959.

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Public Library, A Rationale for Modern Art, touring exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Graham, October 1-21, 1959; traveled to St. Louis, November 2-22, 1959; New York, Time Inc., December 7-18; Mansfield, Ohio, Kingwood Center, January 3-24, 1960; Michigan, Midland Art Association, February 5-25, 1960; Miami Beach Art Center, March 1-31, 1960; Dallas, Southern Methodist University, April 12-May 3; Seattle, Charles and Emma Frye Museum, May 15-June 6; San Francisco Museum of Art, Jun 16-July 17; Norwich, Conn., Slater Memorial Museum, October 10-30, 1960.

New Haven, Conn., Yale University Art Gallery, American Art from Alumni Collections, April 25-June 16, 1968, cat. 79, ill. as Still Life with Strawberries, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Graham.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 18th- and 19th- Century American Art from Private Collections, June 27-September 11, 1972, cat. no. 49, as Bowl of Strawberries, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Graham.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Three Centuries of American Art, April 11-October 10, 1976, cat. no. 213, p. 255, ill. as Still Life with Strawberries, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Graham.

Tulsa, Okla., Philbrook Art Center, Painters of the Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still Life, 1801-1939, September 27-November 1, 1981, fig. 3.9, p. 59, ill. as Still Life with Wild Strawberries, lent by Edith and Robert Graham1; traveled to Oakland Museum, December 8, 1981-January 24, 1982; Baltimore Museum of Art, March 2-April 25, 1982; New York, National Academy of Design, May 18-July 4, 1982.

Publication History

Dorothy C. Miller and Alfred H. Barr, Jr., eds., American Realists and Magic Realists (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1943), p. 9 ill.

Wolfgang Born, Still-Life Painting in America, New York, 1947, p. 13, fig. 23, p. 14 ill.

Alfred Frankenstein, The Reality of Appearance, The Trompe L’Oeil Tradition in American Painting (New York, 1970) cat. no. 7, p. 36, p. 37 ill.

William H. Gerdts and Russell Burke, American Still-Life Painting (New York, Washington, London, 1971), p. 31.

William H. Gerdts, Painters of the Humble Truth (Columbia, Missouri and London, 1981), pp. 59-60, fig. 2.9, p. 59, ill.

Beatrice B. Garvan, Federal Philadelphia, 1785-1825, The Athens of the Western World, (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1987), cat. no. 230, fig. 50, p. 82, ill.

Tom Armstrong, “The New Field-McCormick Galleries of the Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques, 134, 4 (October 1988), p. 822-834, pl. VII, p. 826, ill.

Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. , Raphaelle Peale Still Life (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1988), fig. 41, p. 53, ill.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1990-91 (Chicago, 1991) Fig. 1, p. 1, ill.

“Principales Acquisitions des Musees en 1991,” Gazette des Beaux Arts (March 1992), fig. 243, p. 71, ill.

Lillian B. Miller, “Father and Son: The Relationship of Charles Willson Peale and Raphaelle Peale,” American Art Journal, 25, 1 and 2 (1993), pp. 4-61, ill. p. 52.

Annie V. F. Storr, “Raphaelle Peale’s Strawberries, Nuts & c: A Riddle of Enlightened Science,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 21, 1 (1995), pp. 24, 35, ill

Ownership History

Mr. Feldman, Philadelphia by 1940. James Graham and Sons Gallery, New York, by 1941. Robert C. Graham, N.Y. by 1946. Jamee J. and Marshall Field III by 1991; given by them to the Art Institute, 1991.