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Model and Artist
Artist
Paul Cadmus
(American, 1904 - 1999)
Date1993
MediumEgg tempera on gesso panel
DimensionsOverall: 20 x 12 inches (50.9 x 30.6 cm), sight: 19-5/8 x 11-1/2 inches (49.6 x 29.3 cm), frame: 28-1/8 x 20-1/4 x 1-1/4 inches (71.5 x 51.2 x 3.2 cm)
Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer
Object number2019.44
Collections
ClassificationsPainting
Object NamePainting
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
Not on viewCentury
- Twentieth
Signedbottom left (reflected on pad in mirror): Cadmus
Exhibition HistoryAn Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005
Paul Cadmus: Still Lifes, Portraits, Tableaux, Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, November 11–December 30, 1994ProvenanceCollection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1994 from Midtown Payson Galleries, New York
Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift from the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 177 (ill., color).
An Intimate Eye (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2005), 12 (no. 17).
Lucio Pozzi, “La bellezza del corpo e delle cose, senza tabù,” Il Giornale Dell’Arte, February 1995.
John Weir, “Wild at Heart,” The Advocate, December 27, 1994, 68 (ill., color).