About the Artwork
The Ball Players
c. 1877
William Morris Hunt
1824-1879
American
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Oil on canvas
Unframed: 16 × 24 inches (40.6 × 61 cm) Framed: 20 × 25 11/16 × 2 3/4 inches (50.8 × 65.2 × 7 cm)
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American Art before 1950
Gift of Mrs. John L. Gardner
07.12
Public Domain
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Provenance
February 3-4, 1880, sale, no. 27, William Morris Hunt studio sale (Horticultural Hall, Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA) [as Ball Players, Magnolia, 1877];1880-1907, Mrs. John L. (Isabella Stewart) Gardner;
1907-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Exhibition Catalogue of the Paintings and Drawings of the Late William Morris Hunt at His Studio. Exh. cat., No. 1 Park Square. Boston, 1880, no. 27.
“Important Gifts.” Bulletin of the DMA 4, no. 2 (April 1910): p. 15 (ill.).
Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition. Exh. cat., Toledo Museum of Art. Toldeo, 1912, p. 18, no. 45.
Centennial Exhibition of Paintings by William Morris Hunt. Exh. cat., Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery. Buffalo, New York, 1924, no. 44.
Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, no. 319.
American Genre: The Social Scene in Paintings and Prints (1800-1935). Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1935, no. 56.
Art in New England: New England Genre. Exh. cat., Fogg Museum, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1939, pp. 36-37, no. 14.
Romantic Painting in America. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1943, no. 110.
Catalogue of Paintings, Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1944, p. 65, no. 315.
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts Bulletin 19, no. 24 (1948): p. 5.
Richardson, E.P. Painting in America: The Story of 450 Years. New York, 1956, p. 260.
Novak, Barbara. American Painting of the Nineteenth Century. New York, 1969, p. 247.
Hoppin, Martha J. “William Morris Hunt: Aspects of His Work.” Ph. D. diss., Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetss, 1974, pp. 190, 192-194, no. 225.
Hunter, S. American Art of the 29th Century. New York, 1974, p. 14 (fig. 12).
The Late Landscapes of William Morris Hunt. Exh. cat., University of Maryland Art Gallery. College Park, 1976, pp. 34, 104.
Brown, Milton W. The Story of the Armory Show. New York, 1977, p. 546.
Burns, Sarah Lea. “The Poetic Mode in American Painting: George Fuller and Thomas Dewing.” Ph. D. diss, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Urbana-Champaign, 1979, p. 116.
William Morris Hunt: A Memorial Exhibition. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, 1979, pp. 72, 84, no. 36.
The Grand Game of Baseball…and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Exh. cat., Museums of the Borough of Brooklyn at Brooklyn College. Brooklyn, 1987, no. 49.
Sport in Art from American Museums: Inaugural Exhibition of the National Art Museum of Sport. Exh. cat., National Art Museum of Sport. Indianapolis, 1991, pp. 50-51, no. 16.
Webster, Sally. William Morris Hunt, 1824-1879. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1991, pp. 134-136.
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William Morris Hunt, The Ball Players, c. 1877, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. John L. Gardner, 07.12.
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