Mother Bereft
date: label: Date
content: (c. 1890)
name: label: Artist
content: Louis Eilshemius, American, b. Arlington, New Jersey, 1864–1941
notes: label: Provenance
content: The artist, New York
label: Provenance
content: Kleeman Galleries, New York, c. 1937-12 February 1958
label: Provenance
content: Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 12 February 1958-17 May 1966
label: Provenance
content: Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
label: Exhibition History
content: KLEEMAN GALLERIES, New York. All of Elshemius, October 1937, no. 4.
label: Exhibition History
content: KLEEMAN GALLERIES, New York. Louis M. Eilshemius, February 1950, no. 10
label: Exhibition History
content: ARTIST'S GALLERY, New York. Masterpieces of Eilshemius, February 1959, no. 2, ill. Tour: PHILLIPS COLLECTION, Washington, DC, May-June 1959.
label: Exhibition History
content: AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS, New York (organizer). "Paintings from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation Collection: A View of the Protean Century," no. 24. Tour: M. KNOEDLER & CO., New York, 31 October-24 November 1962; CURRIER GALLERY OF ART, Manchester, New Hampshire, 16 December 1962-12 January 1963; CARNEGIE INSTITUTE, Pittsburgh, 30 January-26 February; EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCE, Indiana, 16 March-12 April; MUNSON WILLIAMS PROCTOR INSTITUTE, Utica, New York, 30 April-27 May; J.B. SPEED ART MUSEUM, Louisville, Kentucky, 13 June-10 July; MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS, 30 July-25 August, SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, 11 September-8 October; SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF ART, 26 October-23 November; COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER, Colorado, 11 December 1963-7 January 1964; DALLAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, 26 January-23 February; OKLAHOMA ART CENTER, Oklahoma City, 12 March-8 April; BROOKS MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, Memphis, Tennessee, 25 April-23 May; ATLANTA ART ASSOCIATION, Georgia, 10 June-7 July; SAGINAW ART MUSEUM, Michigan, 25 July-22 August; MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, 8 September-6 October; ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM, Pennsylvania, 24 October-21 November; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston, 9 December 1964-10 January 1965; BROOKLYN MUSEUM, New York, 8 February-5 April.
label: Exhibition History
content: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, fig. 116, p. 91, p. 689.
label: Exhibition History
content: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Louis M. Eilshemius: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 9 November 1978-1 January 1979, no.12, ill. p. 48. Tour: HERBERT F. JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART, Ithaca, New York, 3 February-18 March; LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM, Wausau, Wisconsin, 14 April-27 May; JOSLYN ART MUSEUM, Omaha, 23 June-19 August; SPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF FINE ART, Massachusetts, 29 September-11 November; FREDERICK S. WIGHT GALLERY, University of California, Los Angeles, 8 December 1978-13 January 1979; DE YOUNG MUSEUM, San Francisco, 1 February-1 April.
label: Exhibition History
content: TERRA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Evanston, Illinois. Treasures from the Hirshhorn: American Painting, 1880-1930, 29 July-30 September 1980, no. 9
label: Exhibition History
content: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, New York. "Louis M. Eilshemius (1864-1911): An Independent Spirit," 19 September-11 November 2001.
label: Published References
content: KLEEMAN GALLERIES, New York, advertisement. Art Digest 11 (15 April 1937): 2, ill.
label: Published References
content: DEVREE, HOWARD. "All of Eilshemius," Magazine of Art 30 (October 1937): 606, ill.
label: Published References
content: UNSIGNED. "Dramaticism, Lyricism, and Eilshemius," Art Digest 12 (1 October 1937): 9.
label: Published References
content: KLEEMAN GALLERY, New York, advertisement. Art Digest 12 (1 October 1937): back cover ill.
label: Published References
content: Adverstisement. Art Digest 12 (15 October 1937): back cover ill.
label: Published References
content: SCHACK, WILLIAM. And He Sat Among the Ashes (New York: American Artists Group, 1939): 66.
label: Published References
content: WATSON, FORBES. American Painting Today (Washington, DC: 1939): 63, ill.
label: Published References
content: FARBER, MANNY. "Eilshemius: Artist Behind Mahatma," Art News 58 (April 1959): 5, colorplate cover.
label: Published References
content: COATES, ROBERT M. "The Art Galleries: Eilshemius and Duchamp," The New Yorker (18 April 1959): 151.
label: Published References
content: KARLSTROM, PAUL J. diss. "Louis M. Eilshemius 1864-1941," (University of California Los Angeles, 1973).
label: Published References
content: LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974): 689, fig. 116, ill. p. 91.
label: Published References
content: KARLSTROM, PAUL J. Louis Michel Eilshemius (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1978): plate 101.
label: Published References
content: GODDARD, DONALD. American Painting (n.p.: Hugh Lautner Levin Associates, 1990): ill.
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content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66.1722
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil on canvas
label: Dimensions
content: 20 1/2 X 14 1/2 IN. (52.1 X 36.7 CM.)