Object details
Object number
P3s28
Creator(s)
Denman Waldo Ross
(Cincinnati, Ohio, 1853 - 1935, London)
Title
Study of John Feeney
Date
1919
Medium
Oil on gray canvas
Dimensions
57 x 39 cm (22 7/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed (lower left): Denman W. Ross / Summer of 1919
Inscribed (verso): Cambridge June 8 1919
Inscribed (on the back of the stretcher): John Feeney / Palette II BA [with additional color notes]
Provenance
Gift from Denman Waldo Ross to Isabella Stewart Gardner, summer 1919.
Commentary
This vertical rectangular oil painting is a portrait of John Feeney, a young man. This portrait shows only his head, neck, and face. Feeney’s head is oriented slightly to the left, and only the left ear and left side of his neck are visible. He wears a wide white headband over his hairline and onto the top of his head. Behind this band, a tuft of orange hair is visible. Feeney is light-skinned with patches of redness on his forehand, nose, cheeks, and the left side of his neck. His brown eyes are deep set and have an unfocused gaze. He has full red lips and patches of stubble on his chin and above his upper lip to our left.
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1920), p. 1.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 300. (entitled "A Bandaged Head")
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 31. (entitled "Head of a Youth")
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 207-08, ill. (entitled "A Bandaged Head")
Gallery
Blue Room
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