SUSAN MACDOWELL EAKINS (1851-1938) - photo 1
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SUSAN MACDOWELL EAKINS (1851-1938)

Lot 498
23.01.2026 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1540445
Lot 498 | SUSAN MACDOWELL EAKINS (1851-1938)
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$ 10 000 – 15 000
SUSAN MACDOWELL EAKINS (1851-1938)
Portrait of a Lady
signed and dated 'S.H. Macdowell/1880' (upper right)—signed again with initials 'S.M.E.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
18 ¼ x 16 ¼ in. (46.4 x 41.3 cm.)
Painted in 1880.




Provenance

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, New York, acquired from the above, 1968.
By descent to the late owner.



Literature

S.B. Sherrill, "Current and Coming," Magazine Antiques, vol. CIII, no. 5, May 1973, p. 834, illustrated (as Woman Seated).
E.H. Fine, Women & Art: A History of Women Painters and Sculptors from the Renaissance to the 20th Century, Montclair, New Jersey, 1978, p. 115, fig. 5-18, illustrated.
M. Simpson, The Rockefeller Collection of American Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, exhibition catalogue, San Francisco, California, 1994, p. 33, fig. 15, illustrated (as Girl with Fan).



Exhibited

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Susan Macdowell Eakins (1851-1938), May 4-June 10, 1973, pp. 20, 22, 44, no. 8, illustrated.
San Francisco, California, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, American Art: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, April 17-November 7, 1976, pp. 154-55, illustrated (as Woman Seated).
Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts; Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum; San Diego, California, San Diego Museum of Arts; Dallas, Texas, Southern Methodist University, Meadows Museum, American Women Artists, 1830-1930, April 10, 1987-April 17, 1988, n.p., no. 11, illustrated.
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Genre:Portrait
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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