Mrs. Edward Cresap McCarty (Mary Elizabeth Brown)

Artist George Caleb Bingham (American, 1811 - 1879)

Date1855

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 30 1/8 × 25 inches (76.52 × 63.5 cm)
Framed: 38 × 33 1/2 × 3 1/2 inches (96.52 × 85.09 × 8.89 cm)

Credit LineGift of Joan Cline Brown, Great Granddaughter of Mary Elizabeth McCarty

Object number2024.27

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Collections

American Art

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DescriptionA distinguished woman sits atop a brown background. She is dressed in a black garment with a lace collar and large bronze brooch. Her hair is brown and bound behind her. Her expression is neither happy nor serious, but stoic.Provenance

Provenance

Commissioned from the artist by Col. Edward Cresap McCartty (1805–1885) Saline County, MO, 1855;

His gift to his wife, Mary Elizabeth McCarty, 1855;

By descent to her daughter, Edverda McCarty Evans;

By descent to her daughter, Nelle Evans Cline;

By descent to her daugher, Joan Cline Brown, Kansas City, MO;

Her git to the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO, 2024.

Published References

Bloch, E. Maurice, The paintings of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986), 206.

Bloch, E. Maurice, George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), 95–96.

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