SUSAN MACDOWELL EAKINS | PEONIES

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July 26, 04:15 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Lady

SUSAN MACDOWELL EAKINS

1851 - 1938

PEONIES

signed Susan M. Eakins (lower right)

oil on canvas

24 x 20 inches (61 x 50.8 cm)

The artist

Mr. and Mrs. Robert James, Kenneth City, Florida (bequest from above)

Richard York Gallery, New York

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1991

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Susan Macdowell Eakins 1851-1938, May-June 1973, p. 52, no. 41

According to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts' exhibition catalogue from 1973, the present work is the only surviving flower still life by the artist. The painting was mistakenly exhibited under her sister's name in the Art Club Gallery exhibition in Philadelphia in 1936.