The Glade

1900

Julius L. Stewart American, 1855-1919

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About the Artwork

Title The Glade

Artwork Date 1900

Artist Julius L. Stewart

Life Dates 1855-1919

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 59 1/2 × 48 inches (151.1 × 121.9 cm) Framed: 69 1/8 × 57 1/4 × 2 1/2 inches (175.6 × 145.4 × 6.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Gift of the artist through his sister, Mrs. Ellie Stewart Brolemann

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 21.14

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Signed Signed and dated, lower left (with initials in monogram): J. L. Stewart 1900

Provenance

the artist and his sister, Mrs. Ellie Stewart Brolemann;
1921-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Neuhaus, Eugen. The Galleries of the Exposition at the Panama-Pacific International. San Francisco, 1915, p. 86.

Gerdts, William H. The Great American Nude. New York, 1974, pp. 104-105 (fig. 6-2).

Three Centuries of the American Nude. Exh. cat., New York Cultural Center. New York, 1975, p. 7, no. 46.

Joyner, Sue Carson. Julius L. Stewart: life and Works. MA thesis, Hunter College, The City University of New York. New York, 1982, p. 66.

Thompson, D. Dodge. “Julius Stewart, A Parisian from Philadelphia.” Antiques 130 (November 1986): pp. 1046-1058 (fig. 3).

Hiesinger, Ulrich W. Julius LeBlanc Stewart: American Painter of the Belle Epoque. Exh. cat., Vance Joran Fine Art, Inc. New York, 1998, p. 60 (ill.).

American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2002, p. 87; p. 89, no. 64.

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Julius L. Stewart, The Glade, 1900, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the artist through his sister, Mrs. Ellie Stewart Brolemann, 21.14.