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Old Woman Reading the Detroit Morning Post, (painting). Artist:  Unknown, painter. Title:  Old Woman Reading the Detroit Morning Post, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1875. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  21 x 17 in. (53.3 x 43.2 cm) Description:  Caricature of an old woman reading a newspaper. Subject:  Portrait female -- Unidentified -- Elderly Portrait female -- Unidentified -- Caricature Recreation -- Leisure -- Reading Object -- Written Matter -- Newspaper Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48202 Accession Number: 55.293 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Stead, Robert, Mrs., Detroit, Michigan 1883. Fisher, George, Mrs., 1908. Eubanks, May, Fortune, Marian, 1955. Acquired 1955. Remarks:  On handwritten label, on center of back board: "Old Lady Reading/the First Copy of the Detroit/Morning Post. (1824)/Artist unknown./Family Heirloom from Original Home of Mrs. Fisher." References:  "American paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; volume 1: Works by artists born by 1816," New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1991, no. A60. "Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965," Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1965. Exh.cat. "Michigan Art, yesterday & today" Flint Inst.of Arts, 1963. Illustration:  Image on file. "American paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; volume 1: Works by artists born by 1816," New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1991, pg. 307. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 24150030   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 24150030 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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