The Artist's Niece, Miss Mary Christine Austin
Artist
Amanda Petronella Austin
(American, 1859 - 1917)
Dateca. 1887-1888
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 53 1/8 × 33 inches (134.94 × 83.82 cm)
Framed: 56 1/4 × 44 3/4 inches (142.88 × 113.67 cm)
Framed: 56 1/4 × 44 3/4 inches (142.88 × 113.67 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Miss Mary C. Austin
Object numberR67-17
SignedSigned lower right: Amanda P. Austin.
On View
Not on viewCollections
Exhibition History
Probably
California State Fair, Sacramento, September 12–21, 1889, no. 151 (as Childhood’s Happy Hours).
To Joseph W. Austin, c. 1888;
to Mary Christine Austin, by descent;
to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1967.
Probably “Review of the Art Treasures in the Pavilion,” Sacramento Daily Record-Union, September 15, 1889, 3 (as Childhood’s Happy Hours).
Probably “In the Art Gallery,” San Francisco Examiner, September 16, 1889, 2 (as Childhood’s Happy Hours).
Margaret Kreiss, “Pencil Me In,” Sacramento Bee, February 21, 1971, W2.
“Missouri Women in History: Amanda P. Austin,” Missouri Historical Review 66, no. 4 (July 1972), inside back cover.
Margaret C. Conrads, ed. The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945 (Kansas City, Mo.: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007), 2: 11.
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George Caleb Bingham
1874
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