About the Artwork
James Edmund Scripps
1907
Robert J. Wickenden
1861-1931
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Overall: 58 × 36 inches (147.3 × 91.4 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of the Estate of James E. Scripps
07.2
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Markings
Signed, on painted doorway above Scripp's head: Robt. J. Wickenden
Inscribed, painted on doorway above Scripp's head: James Edmund Scripps | 1835-1906 | Robt. J. Wickenden
Provenance
before 1907, James E. Scripps [d. 1907]
his family. 1907-present, gift to the Detroit Museum of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Scripps Obituary. The Detroit News Tribune (January 6, 1907).
Ferry, W. Hawkins. The Buildings of Detroit. Detroit, 1968.
Peck, William. The Detroit Institute of Arts: A Brief History. Detroit, 1991, pp. 23-24 (fig. 5).
Wittkopp, Gregory. "Portrait of Henry Wood Booth." Accessed on April 17, 2019. https://center.cranbrook.edu/discover/things-cranbrook/portrait-henry-wood-booth
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Robert J. Wickenden, James Edmund Scripps, 1907, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Estate of James E. Scripps, 07.2.
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