About the Artwork
Happy Days
1905
Elizabeth Nourse
1860-1938
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 40 × 40 inches (101.6 × 101.6 cm) Framed: 54 1/4 inches × 54 1/4 inches × 5 inches (137.8 × 137.8 × 12.7 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of the International Art Union of Paris
09.27
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Markings
Signed and dated, lower right: E. Nourse 1905
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Provenance
Elizabeth Nourse. International Art Union of Paris. 1909 - present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Salon de la Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Exh. cat., Paris, 1905, no. 960.
Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1905, no. 244.
Seaton-Schmidt, Anna. “The Paintings of Elizabeth Nourse.” International Studio 27 (1906): pp. 247-254.
Annual Exhibition of American Art. Exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia, 1906, no. 157.
Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of American Art. Exh. cat., Cincinnati Art Museum. Cincinnati, 1907, no. 62.
Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists. Exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1907, no. 35.
Twelfth Annual Exhibition. Exh. cat., Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh, 1908, no. 238.
Burroughs, Clyde. Bulletin of the DMA 3, 3 (1909): p. 29.
______________. Bulletin of the DMA 3, 4 (1909): pp. 45-46 (ill.).
Elizabeth Nourse 1859-1938: A Salon Career. Exh. cat., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C., 1982, no. A-64.
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Elizabeth Nourse, Happy Days, 1905, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the International Art Union of Paris, 09.27.
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