About the Artwork
The Blue Gown
1917
Frederick Carl Frieseke
1874-1939
American
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Oil on canvas
Unframed: 39 × 60 inches (99.1 × 152.4 cm) Framed: 45 × 66 1/8 × 2 3/4 inches (114.3 × 168 × 7 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Special Membership and Donations Fund with contributions from Philip, David and Paul R. Gray, and their sister Mrs. William R. Kales
19.34
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Markings
Signed and dated, lower right: F. C. Frieseke 1917
Provenance
Frederick Carl Frieseke;1919-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Burroughs, Clyde H. "Painting by F. C. Frieseke Acquired." Bulletin of the DMA 13, no. 1 (October 1918-May 1919): pp. 59-61 (ill.).
Exh. cat., Boston Art Club. Boston, 1919, no. 11.
Impressionism in America. Exh. cat., University of New Mexico Art Gallery. Albuquerque,1965, no. 13 (ill.).
Gibson, Arthur Hopkin, ed. Artists of Early Michigan Detroit, 1975, p. 106 (ill.).
American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1989, pp. 166-169.
Kilmer, Nicholas and Linda McWorter. Frederick Karl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist. Exh. cat., The Telfair Museum of Art. Savannah, Georgia, 2001, pp. 71-97.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Frederick Carl Frieseke, The Blue Gown, 1917, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Special Membership and Donations Fund with contributions from Philip Gray, et al., 19.34.
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