Mary Frances Ward
Artist
George Caleb Bingham
(American, 1811 - 1879)
Dateca. 1871
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 27 5/16 × 22 5/16 inches (69.37 × 56.67 cm)
Framed: 36 3/8 × 31 1/2 × 4 5/8 inches (92.39 × 80.01 × 11.75 cm)
Framed: 36 3/8 × 31 1/2 × 4 5/8 inches (92.39 × 80.01 × 11.75 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hugh Campbell Ward, James Crawford Ward, Frances Ward Olmsted, and John Harris Ward in memory of their mother, Vassie James Hill
Object number57-121
SignedNone
InscribedNone.
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionFull-face front view of child in long white, lace-trimmed gown with cap sleeves, seated, with bare feet crossed on brocade-covered chair, green drapery and red chair-back behind her, holding narro red ribbon in both hands, attached to toy, four-wheeled horse-drawn buggy, extreme left.Published ReferencesNAMA 1959, 255; “George Caleb Bingham: Sesquicentennial
Exhibition, 1811–1961,” Bulletin (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) 3 (1961), 17
(as Portrait of Mary Frances Ward); E. Maurice Bloch, George
Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 1967), 129 (as Miss Mary Frances
Ward); E. Maurice Bloch, George Caleb Bingham: The Evolution of an Artist (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967), 225; NAMA 1973, 250; National Society of
the Colonial Dames in America, Missouri, Portraits in Missouri:
Painted before 1860 (n.p.: National Society of the Colonial Dames
in America, 1974), unpaginated; E. Maurice Bloch, The Paintings
of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986), 113, 226; NAMA 1991, 80.
Exhibition, 1811–1961,” Bulletin (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) 3 (1961), 17
(as Portrait of Mary Frances Ward); E. Maurice Bloch, George
Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 1967), 129 (as Miss Mary Frances
Ward); E. Maurice Bloch, George Caleb Bingham: The Evolution of an Artist (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967), 225; NAMA 1973, 250; National Society of
the Colonial Dames in America, Missouri, Portraits in Missouri:
Painted before 1860 (n.p.: National Society of the Colonial Dames
in America, 1974), unpaginated; E. Maurice Bloch, The Paintings
of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986), 113, 226; NAMA 1991, 80.
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George Caleb Bingham
1874
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