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
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
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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