Focus on Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Wade and analyze the Exhibition history.
Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Wade was exhibited once during Sargent’s life, in 1887 at an exhibition of artists calling themselves the New English Art Club at the Dudley Gallery in London.The painting was also included in two posthumous exhibitions of Sargent’s work, once in 1925 at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, England, and again in 1926 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.After its acquisition by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in 1986, Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Wade was featured in three additional special exhibitions. The first was an exhibition of selected new acquisitions at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in 1987, in which it received special distinction amongst the other highlighted works.The painting then was included in Made in America: Ten Centuries of American Art a traveling exhibition of American paintings. Between 1995 and 1996 the exhibition visited four major American Museums: the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in Minnesota, Saint Louis Art Museum in Missouri, Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, and Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA, in addition to a stop at the Nelson-Atkins Museum.Most recently, Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Wade was included in a 1997 exhibition featuring paintings from Sargent’s early career at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA.
Royal Academy of Arts Toledo Museum of Art Minneapolis Institute of Art Clark Art Institute Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Minneapolis Institute of Arts Saint Louis Art Museum Walker Art Gallery Dudley Gallery Carnegie Museum of Art New English Art Club