Object details
Object number
P3w28
Creator(s)
Caleb Arnold Slade
(Acushnet, Massachusetts, 1882 - 1961, Truro, Massachusetts)
Title
The Shore, Etaples
Date
1913
Medium
Oil on grey pasteboard
Dimensions
33 x 40 cm (13 x 15 3/4 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed (lower right): C. Arnold Slade
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Slade exhibition at Copley Hall, Boston on about 10 November 1913.
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
"Buys Slade Canvas for Her Palace--Mrs. J.L. Gardner Gets Normandy Scene." Boston Post. 11 November 1913.
"Mrs. Gardner Shows Slade Paintings" Uncertain Boston Newspaper. 25 November 1913. (as "two...sketches of Normandy coast subject")
"An Exhibition of Paintings by C. Arnold Slade." The International Studio (1914), p. 173.
"C. Arnold Slade." Fine Arts Journal (1 May 1914), p. 218.
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1920), p. 1. ("paintings...by Slade (2)")
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 341.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 34.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 239-40, ill. (as 1913)
Julie Carlson Eldred et al. True Visions: The Paintings of C. Arnold Slade (1882-1961). Exh. cat. (Dennis, Massachusetts: Cape Museum of Fine Arts, 2001), pp. 8, 12, 16.
Julie Carlson Eldred. "The Paintings of C. Arnold Slade (American, 1882-1961) at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA." The Catalogue of Antiques & Fine Art (Winter 2001).
Gallery
Blue Room
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