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Title:Girl in White Blouse
Artist:Raphael Soyer (American (born Russia), Borisoglebsk 1899–1987 New York)
Date:1932
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:38 x 21 3/4 in. (96.5 x 55.2 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:George A. Hearn Fund, 1933
Object Number:33.107
[Valentine Gallery, New York, until 1933; sold to MMA]
New York. Valentine Gallery. "Raphael Soyer," February–March 4, 1933, no catalogue? [see Ref. Burrows 1933].
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "American Paintings Since Sargent, Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 4–31, 1940, brochure no. 39.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "National Art Week and the Museum: Paintings by Living Americans," November 25–December 1, 1940, no catalogue.
WPA Art Center, Jacksonville, Fla. "Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 1–31, 1941, no catalogue.
University of Georgia, Athens. "Contemporary Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 16–June 2, 1941.
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences. "Paintings by American Artists," December 1941, no catalogue.
Brooklyn. YMCA, Fort Hamilton. October 31–December 3, 1942, no catalogue.
New York. Tailored Woman. April 5–19, 1946 [on display in the store window for the MMA Diamond Jubilee Campaign fund].
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Painters: A Special Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Drawings Selected from the Collections of American Art in the Metropolitan Museum," June 16–October 29, 1950, unnum. brochure (p. 11; as "A Girl in a White Blouse").
Providence. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. "The World of the Thirties," April 11–May 13, 1956, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Three Centuries of American Painting," April 9–October 17, 1965, unnum. checklist.
Huntington, N.Y. Heckscher Museum of Art. "The Image in Twentieth Century America," September 14–October 27, 1968, no. 35.
Cincinnati. Taft Museum. "1930's Remembered. Part Three: The Fine Arts," September 25–December 5, 1982, unnumbered cat. (part 3, Fine Arts).
New York. Cooper Union, Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery. "Raphael Soyer's New York: People and Places," October 3–November 9, 1984, no. 10 (as "Girl in a White Blouse").
Boston University Art Gallery. "Raphael Soyer's New York: People and Places," November 15–December 9, 1984, no. 10.
"Art Museum Gets 20 Painted Icons." New York Times (August 12, 1933), p. 13.
J[ohn]. G[oldsmith]. P[hillips]. "Notes: Paintings by Living American Artists." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 28 (August 1933), p. 145, notes that this work is on view in the museum's Room of Recent Accessions.
Carlyle Burrows. "A New Home for Art Opens to the Public." New York Herald Tribune (July 30, 1933), p. D6, notes that this work was exhibited at the Valentine Gallery in March.
"20 Gift Ikons Head List of New Exhibits At the Metropolitan." New York Herald Tribune (August 12, 1933), p. 11.
New York Herald Tribune (August 27, 1933), ill. p. E4, as "The Girl in the White Blouse".
Edward Alden Jewell. "Art in Review: Soyer, in Exhibition of Oils at the Valentine Gallery, Reveals Unmistakeable Progress." New York Times (February 16, 1933), p. 17 [possibly this picture], calls it "Gitel," a full length standing portrait.
Edward Alden Jewell. "A Sterne Retrospective." New York Times (February 19, 1933), p. X12 [possibly this picture], calls it "'Gitel,' no. 1".
Edward Alden Jewell. "Is Drawing Important?" New York Times (October 1, 1933), p. X5, ill., calls it "Girl in a White Blouse".
"The Metropolitan Secures Four New American Paintings." Art News 31 (September 16, 1933), p. 6.
E[manuel]. M. Benson. "A New Yorker Looks His Museums in the Face." American Magazine of Art 27 (October 1934), pp. 539–40, ill., calls it "Portrait of a Girl with a White Blouse" in the text and "Girl with a White Blouse" in the caption.
"On the Local Horizons." New York Times (June 21, 1936), p. X7.
"FSCW to Sponsor Exhibit of Art at Jacksonville." Tallahassee Democrat (February 27, 1941), p. 10.
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, pp. 109–10, ill.
Doris Reno. "Miami's Old 17th Century Friend Found Shining in a New Setting." Miami Herald (August 22, 1965), p. 21E.
"Dr. Gitel P. Steed, at 63; Hofstra Anthropologist." New York Times (September 9, 1977), p. 91, identifies Gitel P. Steed as the subject of this painting.
Alexander Lesser. "Gitel Poznanski Steed, 1914–1977." American Anthropologist 81 (March 1979), p. 90.
Patricia Hills. Raphael Soyer's New York: People and Places. Exh. cat., Cooper Union, Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery. New York, 1984, unpaginated, no. 10, ill.
Ellen Wiley Todd. The "New Woman" Revised: Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street. Berkeley, 1993, p. 70.
Samantha Baskind. Raphael Soyer and the Search for Modern Jewish Art. Chapel Hill, 2004, p. 84, calls it "Girl in White".
The model for this picture was Gitel (Gertrude) P. Steed (1914–1977), who appears in at least two other Soyer paintings from the 1930s. Steed later became a professor of anthropology at Hofstra University.
Raphael Soyer (American (born Russia), Borisoglebsk 1899–1987 New York)
1937
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