Mrs. Cecil Wade
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Fifty-third Autumn Exhibition, Including a Collective Exhibit of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Eng., September 19–December 12, 1925, no. 145 (as Portrait).
Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 14–March 13, 1926, no. 349.
A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977–1987, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., October 14–December 6, 1987, no. 76.
Made in America: Ten Centuries of American Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, February 5–May 30, 1995; Saint Louis Art Museum, June 14–September 4, 1995; Toledo Museum of Art, October 13, 1995–January 7, 1996; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., March 17–May 19, 1996; and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, July 6–September 22, 1996, unnumbered.
Uncanny Spectacle: The Public Career of the Young John Singer Sargent, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., June 15–September 7, 1997, no. 33.
Mrs. Cecil Wade was among Sargent's first significant commissions upon relocating to London from Paris in 1886. His move was prompted by a scandal involving his sensuous Madame X (in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), which had recently offended Parisian audiences and had temporarily undermined his market there.
to Aileen Wade (daughter of the sitter), 1908;
to Sir Ruthven L. Wade (nephew of Aileen Wade), Dinton, Aylesbury, Eng., by bequest, after 1955;
to (Sotheby’s, New York, 29 May 1986, lot 159);
to the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation, Kansas City, Mo., 1986;
to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., 1986.
"The New English Art Club," London Daily News, April 5, 1887, 2.
"The 'New English Art Club's' Exhibition," Standard (London), April 5, 1887, 3 (as Portrait of a Lady).
"Art Exhibitions," Times (London), April 5, 1887, 4 (as Portrait of a Lady).
"The New English Art Club," Globe (London), April 6, 1887, clipping, NAMA curatorial files (as Portrait of a Lady).
"Two Spring Exhibitions," Manchester (Eng.) Guardian, April 6, 1887, 8.
Life (London), April 7, 1887, clipping, NAMA curatorial files.
"Some Art Exhibitions," Pall Mall Gazette (London) 45 (April 7, 1887), 2.
"Exhibition of Pictures at the New English Art Club," Building News (London) 52 (April 8, 1887), 504.
Architect (London), April 9, 1887, clipping, NAMA curatorial files (as Portrait of a Lady).
Builder (London) 52 (April 9, 1887), 533.
"The Dudley Gallery," Daily Telegraph (London), April 9, 1887, 2.
"The New English Art Club," Era (London), April 9, 1887, 7 (as Portrait of a Lady).
"Art Exhibitions," Illustrated London News, April 9, 1887, 406 (as Portrait of a Lady).
"Picture Galleries," Saturday Review (London), April 9, 1887, 515.
"The New English Art Club," Weekly Dispatch (London), April 10, 1887, clipping, NAMA curatorial files (as Portrait).
Court Society (London), April 13, 1887, clipping, NAMA curatorial files (as Portrait of a Lady).
G[eorge] B[ernard] S[haw], "Picture Shows," World: A Journal for Men and Women (London), no. 667 (April 13, 1887), 20.
"The New English Art Club," Graphic (London), April 16, 1887, 406 (as Portrait of a Lady).
"Art Notes: The New English Art Club," Lady's Pictorial (London), April 16, 1887, clipping, NAMA curatorial files.
"Art: The New English Art Club," Spectator (London) 60 (April 16, 1887), 527.
Bohemian (London), April 23, 1887, clipping, NAMA curatorial files (as Portrait of a Lady).
"The New English Art Club-Dudley Gallery," Broad Arrow (London), April 23, 1887, clipping, NAMA curatorial files (as Portrait of a Lady).
"Spring Exhibitions," Art Journal (London) 49 (1887), 159 (as Portrait of a Lady).
Exhibition of Pictures and Sculpture of the New English Art Club, 1887, exh. cat. (London: Fargues and Co., 1887), 12 (as Portrait of a Lady).
B. D. T., "Liverpool Autumn Exhibition: A Fine Sargent Room," Manchester (Eng.) Guardian, September 19, 1925, 12 (as Portrait).
"The Liverpool Exhibition. A Sargent Room," [September 1925], clipping, NAMA curatorial files (as Portrait).
Fifty-third Autumn Exhibition, Including a Collective Exhibit of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., exh. cat. (Liverpool, Eng.: Corporation of Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, 1925), 20 (as Portrait).
Howard Hannay, "The Fine Arts," London Mercury 13 (March 1926), 542 (as Miss Cecil Wade).
Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., exh. cat. (London: William Clowes and Sons, 1926), 52.
William Howe Downes, John S. Sargent: His Life and Work (London: Thorton Butterworth, 1926), 358.
Evan Charteris, John Singer Sargent (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927), 259.
Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1955), 114, 431.
David McKibben, Sargent's Boston, with an Essay and a Biographical Summary and a Complete Check List of Sargent's Portraits, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1956), 128.
Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, 2nd ed. (London: Cresset Press, 1957), 339.
Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, 3rd ed. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company; New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1969), 114, 455.
Sotheby's, New York, 29 May 1986, lot 159.
Rita Reif, "Auctions," New York Times, June 6, 1986, C27.
Susan Duffy Benway, "Full of Bull? When Wall Street Prospers, Art Thrives," Barron's National Business and Financial Weekly (Boston), June 23, 1986, 8-9.
Patricia Black Bailey, "The High Price of Name Buying: Market Watch," Art Today 1 (Summer 1986), 14-15.
Ann E. Berman, "New York, Sotheby's," Art & Auction 9 (September 1986), 99-100.
Richard W. Walker, "Sargent Leads American Sales," Art News 85 (September 1986), 15.
Donald Hoffmann, "A Sure Favorite for the Nelson Gallery," Kansas City Star, October 12, 1986, 1D, 7D.
Donald Hoffmann, "Kemper Family Donates $1.5 Million Portrait," Kansas City Star, October 12, 1986, 1A, 12A.
"Mrs. Wade Moves to Kansas City," Kansas City Star, 20 October 1986, 4A.
"J. S. Sargent's Portrait Titled, 'Mrs. Cecil Wade' on Display in K.C. Museum," Globe (Joplin, Mo.), October 24, 1986, 5D.
Mary Ann Campbell, "Museum Acquires Sargent Portrait," Mail Tribune (Medford, Ore.), October 26, 1986, 5C.
Sarah Ferrell, "What's Doing in Kansas City," New York Times, October 26, 1986, 10.
"Even in Black and White, the John Singer Sargent Portrait of 'Mrs. Cecil Wade' Is Elegant and Appealing," Independent (Kansas City, Mo.), November 1, 1986, 4.
Frieda Logan, "Too Sophisticated," letter to the editor, Kansas City Star, 2 November 1986, 4G.
"Major Acquisition," Morning World-Herald (Omaha, Neb.), November 2, 1986, 19.
Patricia Degener, "The Eloquent Chronicle of John Singer Sargent," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 2, 1986, 3H (as Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Slade).
"Sunday," Kansas City Times, November 3, 1986, B5.
"Museum Announces Major Acquisition," Independence (Mo.) Examiner, November 5, 1986, Suburban Life sec., 9.
"Encore," Kansas City-Jackson County Star, November 5, 1986, 11.
"Kansas City: Nelson Gallery of Art-Atkins Museum," Lawrence (Kans.) Journal-World, November 6, 1986, 25.
Lisa Massoth, "A Lesson in Art," Kansas City Times, November 8, 1986, C12.
"Museum Acquires Sargent Painting," Eagle Beacon (Wichita, Kans.), November 9, 1986, 3F.
"Tidbits," Kansas City Star, November 9, 1986, 4D.
"Gallery Faces," Independent (Kansas City, Mo.), November 15, 1986, 23.
"The Elegant New Oil Portrait at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art," Independent (Kansas City, Mo.), November 22, 1986, 5.
Henry Adams, "Sargent Masterpiece Given to Museum," Calendar of Events (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art), November 1986, 2, cover.
Stanley Olson, John Singer Sargent: His Portrait (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986), 154.
Carol Ried, "Nelson-Atkins Builds on Its Strengths," Kansas City View, January 13-26, 1987, 14.
"Bonanza Out West," Art & Auction 9 (January 1987), 26.
"Art News," Art Gallery International 9 (January–February 1987), 8.
Donald Hoffmann, "Museum Gifts," Kansas City Star, March 15, 1987, 6D.
Deborah Gimelson, "American Paintings: A Market Conversation," Art & Auction 9 (April 1987), 118 (as Portrait of Mrs. Wade).
Henry Adams, "Museum Receives Second Sargent Painting," Calendar of Events (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art), April 1987, 3.
"Museum Portrait Sells for £m," Farnham (Eng.) Herald, May 8, 1987, 1, 2.
Gary A. Reynolds, "John Singer Sargent's Portraits: Building a Cosmopolitan Career," Arts Magazine 61 (November 1987), 45-46.
"Paintings to See: Major New Artworks in St. Louis and Kansas City," Excel (United Missouri Bank, Kansas City, Mo.), Winter 1987, 26.
A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977–1987, exh. cat. (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson–Atkins Museum of Art, 1987), 174-75.
Steven C. Meyer, "Female Mystique," letter to the editor, American Artist 52 (January 1988), 6.
Ellen R. Goheen, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1988), 126-27 (as Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Wade).
The Society of Fellows Silver Anniversary (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1990), unpaginated (as Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Wade).
Roger Ward, "Selected Acquisitions of European and American Paintings at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 1986-1990," Burlington Magazine 133 (February 1991), 156, 158, 158n11 (as Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Wade).
Henry Adams, Handbook of American Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1991), 4, 40-43.
Nicholas H. J. Hall, Colnaghi in America: A Survey to Commemorate the First Decade of Colnaghi New York (New York: Colnaghi, 1992), 124- 25, 129, frontispiece (as Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Wade).
Alice Thorson, "The Nelson Celebrates Its 60th," Kansas City Star, July 18, 1993, J1.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collections. 6th ed. (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 238, pl. 52 (as Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Wade).
Michael Churchman and Scott Erbes, High Ideals and Aspirations: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 1933–1993 (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 109.
Kathryn C. Johnson, ed., Made in America: Ten Centuries of American Art, exh. cat. (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1995), 68, 75.
Lisa M. Sodders, "American Made: A New Art Exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum Celebrates at 10 Centuries of American Art," Topeka (Kans.) Capital Journal, March 17, 1996, 1D.
Donald Miller, "Art in America," Pittsburgh Post- Gazette, July 5, 1996, 20G.
Marc Simpson, with Richard Ormond and H. Barbara Weinberg, Uncanny Spectacle: The Public Career of the Young John Singer Sargent, exh. cat. (Williamstown, Mass.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1997), 126, 151, 184-85.
Daniel Grant, "Sargent Exhibition Is Uncanny," Boston Sunday Herald, June 29, 1997, 42.
Timothy Cahill, "Sargent's Renaissance," Times Union (Albany, N.Y.), June 29, 1997, G5 (as Frances Frew Wade).
Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Complete Paintings, vol. 1, Early Portraits (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), xvi, 143-44, 253.
Advertisement, "Defining the Business of Art," Art News 99 (May 2000), 189.
Aaron Milrad, Artful Ownership: Art Law, Valuation, and Commerce in the United States, Canada, and Mexico (Washington, D.C.: American Society of Appraisers, 2000), frontispiece.
R. Crosby Kemper Jr., Banking on Art: Fifty Years of Collecting (Kansas City, Mo.: R. Crosby Kemper Jr., 2000), 72.
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), 1: 21, 479-83 (repro.), 2: 213-15 (repro.).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 168 (repro.).
