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Title:The Church
Artist:Arthur B. Carles (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1882–1952 Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania)
Date:ca. 1910
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:31 x 39 in. (78.7 x 99.1 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1962
Accession Number:62.203
the artist, New York (in 1913); [James Graham & Sons, New York, until 1962; sold to MMA]
New York. Armory of the Sixty-ninth Regiment. "International Exhibition of Modern Art (The Armory Show)," February 17–March 15, 1913, no. 56 (as "Landscape").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Three Centuries of American Painting," April 9–October 17, 1965, unnum. checklist (as "L'Eglise").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum's Collections," October 1–December 7, 1969, no catalogue.
Comune di Milano. December 1970–June 1971.
San Juan. El Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. "Arte del Siglo Veinte: EE.UU. del Museo Metropolitano de Arte," April 19–May 31, 1974, no. 5 (as "La Iglesia [L'Eglise]").
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art," April 11–October 10, 1976, no. 416 (as "L'Église").
Southampton, N. Y. Parrish Art Museum. "Twentieth Century American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 25–December 31, 1977, no. 6 (as "L'Eglise").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Tribute to a Curator: Robert Beverly Hale," November 16, 1978–March 4, 1979, extended to March 18, 1979, unnum. checklist.
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. "Arthur B. Carles (1882–1952): Painting with Color," September 23–November 27, 1983, no. 20 (as "L'Église).
Washington, D. C. Corcoran Gallery of Art. "Arthur B. Carles (1882–1952): Painting with Color," April 28–June 27, 1984, no. 20.
New York. National Academy of Design. "Arthur B. Carles (1882–1952): Painting with Color," September 11–November 4, 1984, no. 20.
Queens Museum of Art. "The New Society of American Artists in Paris, 1908–1912," February 1–April 6, 1986, no. 18 (as "The Church [L'Eglise]").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Landscape Painting," April 4–August 13, 1989, no catalogue.
Tulsa, Okla. Philbrook Museum of Art. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 14–June 9, 1991, no. 10.
Miami. Center for the Fine Arts. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 29–August 24, 1991, no. 10.
Omaha. Joslyn Art Museum. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 14–November 10, 1991, no. 10.
Tampa Museum of Art. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," December 14, 1991–February 8, 1992, no. 10.
Greenville, S. C. Greenville County Museum of Art. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 17–May 10, 1992, no. 10.
Madison, Wisc. Madison Art Center. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 6–August 2, 1992, no. 10.
Grand Rapids, Mich. Grand Rapids Art Museum. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 11–November 8, 1992, no. 10.
New York. Hollis Taggart Galleries. "The Orchestration of Color: The Paintings of Arthur B. Carles," February 10–March 18, 2000, no. 8 (dated 1908–10).
Philadelphia. Woodmere Art Museum. "The Orchestration of Color: The Paintings of Arthur B. Carles," April 16–June 25, 2000, no. 8.
Albany. New York State Museum. "20th Century American Landscapes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 31–October 14, 2001, not in brochure.
Montclair, N.J. Montclair Art Museum. "The New Spirit: American Art in the Armory Show, 1913," February 17–June 16, 2013, no. 6.
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, pp. 74–75, ill., calls it "L'Église".
Henry G. Gardiner. "Arthur B. Carles: A Critical and Biographical Study." Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin 64 (January–June 1970), pp. 162–64, 184, no. 24, fig. 16, calls it "L'Eglise" and dates it 1913.
Sam Hunter and John Jacobus. American Art of the 20th Century: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. New York, 1973, fig. 79, calls it "L'Eglise".
Barbara Rose. American Art Since 1900. Rev. and expanded ed. (1st ed., 1967). New York, 1975, pp. 30, 294, fig. 2-2.
Anne d'Harnoncourt inPhiladelphia: Three Centuries of American Art. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 1976, p. 489, no. 416, ill.
Helen A. Harrison. Twentieth Century American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Parrish Art Museum. Southampton, N. Y., 1977, p. 15, no. 6, ill.
Barbara A. Wolanin. Arthur B. Carles: (1882–1952). Painting with Color. Exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia, 1983, pp. 42, 50, 52, 144 n. 54, p. 165, no. 20, ill. p. 32 (color), dates it 1908–10.
Barbara A. Wolanin. "Re-emergence of an American Modernist: Arthur B. Carles." Arts Magazine 58 (February 1984), p. 121, ill., calls it "L'Eglise" and dates it 1908–10.
Maureen Mullarkey. "Tuesday at the Met." Hudson Review 40 (Summer 1987), p. 198 (possibly this work).
Milton W. Brown. The Story of the Armory Show. 2nd ed. [1st ed., 1963]. New York, 1988, p. 252, notes that this work was no. 56 in the Armory Show, lent by the artist.
Lisa M. Messinger inThe Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., American Federation of Arts. New York, 1991, pp. 32, 41–43, no. 10, ill. (color).
John Brandenburg. "Art Review: Philbrook Show Features 60 Landscape Paintings." Daily Oklahoman (May 29, 1991), p. 13.
Gail Stavitsky in Gail Stavitsky and Laurette E. McCarthy. The New Spirit: American Art in the Armory Show, 1913. Exh. cat., Montclair Art Museum. Montclair, N.J., 2013, pp. 24, 148, no. 6, ill. p. 124 (color).
Laurette E. McCarthy in Gail Stavitsky and Laurette E. McCarthy. The New Spirit: American Art in the Armory Show, 1913. Exh. cat., Montclair Art Museum. Montclair, N.J., 2013, p. 76.
Georgia O'Keeffe (American, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin 1887–1986 Santa Fe, New Mexico)
1926
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