Mrs. Hutchins
Artist
Samuel Lovett Waldo
(American, 1783 - 1861)
Artist
William Jewett
(American, 1789 - 1874)
Dateca. 1835
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 36 x 28 1/8 inches (91.44 x 71.44 cm)
Framed: 40 3/8 x 32 5/16 inches (102.55 x 82.07 cm)
Framed: 40 3/8 x 32 5/16 inches (102.55 x 82.07 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number34-301/2
SignedNone.
On View
On viewGallery Location
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DescriptionHalf-length portrait of a woman wearing a gray dress with white lace collar and white lace bonnet, shown full face, seated in a red chair with her hands lying in her lap. Red drapery in background.Gallery LabelArt historians believe that portrait painter Samuel Waldo rendered sitters' faces and hands while his partner William Jewett completed costumes and backgrounds. This division of labor may be discerned in Mr. Hutchins (at left) and Mrs. Hutchins by the contrast between the sitters' solidly rendered heads and their more exuberantly painted clothing.
Mrs. Hutchins wears a fashionable taffeta day dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves, pleated bodice and embroidered belt that attest to her husband's success and their well-to-do social status. Her large collar and bonnet are made of expensive lace, while her hair is pulled back and knotted on top with side curls. Such details suggest that this undated portrait, like its pendant, was created in the mid-1830s.
Mrs. Hutchins wears a fashionable taffeta day dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves, pleated bodice and embroidered belt that attest to her husband's success and their well-to-do social status. Her large collar and bonnet are made of expensive lace, while her hair is pulled back and knotted on top with side curls. Such details suggest that this undated portrait, like its pendant, was created in the mid-1830s.
"Masterpiece of the Week," Kansas City Star, 1 March 1935, 30 (artist as Samuel Waldo);
"Pair of Portraits by American Week's Masterpiece at Museum," Kansas City Journal-Post, 3 March 1935, 8B (artist as Samuel Lovett Waldo);
NAMA 1941, 166 (as Portrait of Mrs. Hutchins);
NAMA 1959, 258;
NAMA 1973, 255 (artist as Samuel L. Waldo);
NAMA 1977, 21 (artist as Samuel Lovett Waldo);
Ross E. Taggart, "American Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri," Antiques 122 (November 1982), 1030-31 (artist as Samuel L. Waldo);
NAMA 1991, 33-34.
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1874
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