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Julian Alden Weir American, 1852-1919 The Two Sisters, circa 1890-1899 Signed J. Alden Weir (cr) Oil on canvas 50 x 39 1/2 inches Provenance: The artist Vose Galleries, Boston, 1916 Mrs. Marshall Field (Delia Spencer Field, 1855-1937), 1917 Bequeathed to her niece, Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge, 1937 By gift to the Art Institute of Chicago in memory of Abby Louise Spencer Eddy (sister of Delia Spencer Field), 1938 Private collection, New York, 2000 Exhibited: New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Paintings by Ten American Painters, Mar. 15-27, 1915, no. 37 (as Two Sisters). New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Eighth Annual Summer Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists, Jun. 2-Sep. 1915, no. 27 (as Two Sisters). Boston, Vose Galleries, Works by Modern Men, Feb.-Mar., 1916, no. 9 (as The Sisters). Washington, DC,The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Seventh Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, Dec. 21, 1919-Jan. 25, 1920, no. 167 (as The Sisters, lent by Mrs. Marshall Field). Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, May-Sep. 1920, illus. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of J. Alden Weir, Mar. 17-Apr. 20, 1924 (as The Two Sisters), p. 5, pl. 30 illus. New York, National Academy of Design, Special Exhibition, May 8-Jul. 25, 1939, no. 235 (as Two Sisters). Chicago, University of Illinois, Dec., 1939. possibly IL, The Art Institute of Chicago, Fifty-third Chicago Artist's Exhibition, 1953. Vienna, Kunstforum, Impressionismus: Amerika - Frankreich - Russland (Impressionism: America - France - Russia), Oct. 25, 2002-Feb. 23, 2003, pp. 102 color illus. 103, cat. no. 9. New York, Spanierman Gallery, LLC, American Masters 1840-1920, Feb. 14-Mar. 22, 2008. Literature: Catalogue of Paintings by the Ten American Painters. Exhi. cat. New York: M. Knoedler & Co, 1915. (no. 37 as Two Sisters). Arthur Hoeber "Art and Artists." The Globe and Commercial Advertiser (New York), Mar. 16, 1915, p. 12. Royal Cortissoz. "New Pictures by the Ten." New York Tribune, Mar. 19, 1915, p. 9. J[oseph] E[dgar] C[hamberlin]. "The 'Ten American Painters.'" Evening Mail (New York), Mar. 19, 1915, p. 12. "Art Notes." The Evening Post (New York), Mar. 20, 1915, p. 8. [Charles de Kay]. "The Pictures Varied in Subject and Execution-The Exhibition of the Ten American Painters." New York Times, Mar. 21, 1915, sec. 1, p. 23. Charles H. Caffin. "Ten American Painters, at the Knoedler Gallery". New York American, Mar. 22, 1915, p. 9. "Summer Exhibition of American Painters at Knoedler's," Globe Boston, Jul. 3, 1915. "American Art at Knoedler's", American Art News (July 15, 1915), v. xiii, no. 34, p. 3. "Americans at Vose's," American Art News 14, Feb. 26, 1916, no. 21, p. 1 illus. 5. "Boston," American Art News, Mar. 4, 1916, p. 3. Seventh Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Contemporary Artists. Exhi. cat. Washington, DC: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1919. Duncan Phillips et al. Julian Alden Weir An Appreciation of His Life and Works. New York: Century Club, 1921, p. 133. William Coffin. "Introduction," in Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Julian Alden Weir Exhi. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1924, p. xviii., no. 30 illus. Cover, Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 32 (Apr.-May, 1938), p. 58 illus. The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report for the Year (1938), p. 10. National Academy Special Exhibition. exh. cat. New York: National Academy, 1939. Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection. The Netherlands: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961, p. 480. Impressionismus: Amerika - Frankreich - Russland (Impressionism: America - France - Russia) . Vienna: Palace Editions, 2002, p. 102 color illus., 103, cat. no. 9. An important figural work in Weir's oeuvre, The Two Sisters was exhibited by the artist on three occasions, including the Ten American Painters annual of 1915, at which the critic Charles de Kay pr
Glue relined. Frame rubbing, with corresponding inpaint. Scattered craquelure throughout, with some touches of inpaint in the craquelure. There are touches of inpaint in the womens faces arms and hands. There is a inpainted and repaired whole in the hand at center, approximately 3/4 x 3/4 of an inch. No further restoration is visible under UV light.