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    Richard Aldrich McCurdy, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925, painter.
    Title: 
    Richard Aldrich McCurdy, (painting).
    Dates: 
    1890.
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    51 x 38 3/4 in. (129.5 x 98.5 cm)
    Inscription: 
    (On piece of canvas now fixed to the stretcher:) John S. Sargent 1890 signed
    Description: 
    Three-quarter-length standing portrait of Richard Aldrich McCurdy (1835-1916). He holds gloves in his right hand and a cane in his left hand.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- McCurdy, Richard Aldrich -- Knee length
    Dress -- Accessory -- Cane
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, 445 Park Avenue North, Winter Park, Florida 32789 Accession Number: P21.81
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Ames, Thaddeus Hoyt,
    Ames, Elizabeth Marsh,
    Ames, Richard McCurdy, Mr. & Mrs.,
    Sotheby's, New York, New York Sale (Apr. 30-May 3, 1980), lot 368B.
    Hirschl & Adler, New York, New York until 1981.
    Anonymous Collection.
    Remarks: 
    This portrait was commissioned in 1889 by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, of which McCurdy was president from 1885 to 1905.
    References: 
    Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of Art, 1997.
    Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, no. 240.
    McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
    Illustration: 
    Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, pg. 27.
    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 10380023
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