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More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Zorach, Marguerite,     Portrait group -- Family     Portrait female -- Lancy, Benjamin, Mrs. (Lillie Clement Prince)     Portrait male -- Lancy, Benjamin     Object -- Flower     Landscape -- Massachusetts     Architecture exterior -- Domestic     Dress -- Ceremonial     Painting

Benjamin's Lost Love, (painting). Artist:  Zorach, Marguerite, 1887-1968, painter. Title:  Benjamin's Lost Love, (painting). Other Titles:  Portrait of a New England Family, (painting). Dates:  1916. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  23 3/4 x 18 in. Inscription:  (Lower center:) M Zorach - 1916 signed Description:  Portrait of Benjamin Lancy (1846-1923) as an older man standing in front of the steps at the entrance to his large Victorian home in Provincetown, his right hand resting on a walking stick. Seated on the steps to the left is his wife Lillie Clement Prince Lancy dressed in a long white wedding gown as she appeared when the couple married in 1879. Between them a large calla lily plant in a yellow pot stands in front of the entrance to their home. Subject:  Portrait group -- Family -- Spouses Portrait female -- Lancy, Benjamin, Mrs. (Lillie Clement Prince) -- Full length Portrait male -- Lancy, Benjamin -- Full length Object -- Flower -- Lily Landscape -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown Architecture exterior -- Domestic -- House Dress -- Ceremonial -- Wedding Dress Object Type:  Painting Owner:  McGrath, Richard J., 596 Meriden-Waterbury Road, Southington, Connecticut 06489 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Zorach, Marguerite, estate of, Kraushaar Gallery, New York, New York Exhibitions:  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts One Hundred Twentieth Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1925. Remarks:  On the reverse there is a painting by the artist's husband William Zorach depicting: an abstract portrait of Benjamin Lancy standing in the front of a waterfall, his arms resting on a walking stick, his young wife standing in profile in the background, her arms raised, and her blond hair pulled back in a long braid. Growing along a hillside on the lower left is a red flower with large green leaves. References:  McGrath, Richard J., 2015. Illustration:  Image on file. 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 9D870046   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 9D870046 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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