A student of painter Ralph Clarkson, Nouvart Dzeron posed for the artist in traditional Armenian dress supplied for the sitting by her grandfather. Clarkson highlighted the rich blue and gold of the garments by positioning Dzeron against an unadorned background with strong lighting reminiscent of Spanish Baroque painter Diego Velázquez and French realist Édouard Manet. Clarkson was part of Chicago’s artistic community, establishing a studio in the city in 1896, active in several local arts organizations, and teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Art Institute of Chicago, Twenty–Fifth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, Nov. 5–Dec. 8, 1912, cat. 52 (ill.) as Nouvart Dzeron.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Fourth Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Contemporary Amerucan Artists, Dec. 17, 1912–Jan. 26, 1913, cat. 6.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 108th Annual Exhibition, Feb. 7–Mar. 30, 1913, cat. 136 (ill.).
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, Modern Art, Feb. 4–Mar. 5, 1914.
Art Institute of Chicago, First Exhibition of Works by Former Students and Instructors at the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 8–Feb. 7, 1918, cat. 99, as A Daughter of Armenia.
Milwaukee Art Institute, Exhibition of Forty Paintings presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, Mar. 1–29, 1925, cat. 10, as A Daughter of Armenia.
New York, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Exhibition of Works by the Living Artist Members of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in Connection with the Opening of the Art Gallery of the New Building of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Nov. 13, 1930–May 15, 1931, cat. 35.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 532.
Art Institute of Chicago, Half a Century of American Art, Nov. 16, 1939–Jan. 7, 1940, cat. 38 (ill.).
St. Louis Art Museum, Currents of Expansion: Painting in the Midwest, 1820–1940, Feb. 18–Apr. 10, 1977, cat. 87.
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