LILLIAN MATHILDE GENTH
American, 1876-1953

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Signed L M Genth
Oil on canvas
39½ x 30 inches (100.4 x 76.2 cm)
Original Philadelphia signed hand-carved frame: 54 x 45 inches (135 x 114 cm)

Provenance
George A. Hearn, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1910 (accession no. 10.64.4), bequeathed by the above Deaccessioned from the above, 1993
Private Collection, Connecticut, 1993 to the present

Exhibited
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1902 (on loan)
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Exhibition, 1911, no. 139
Hickory, North Carolina, Hickory Museum of Art; Wilmington, Delaware, St. John's Museum of Art; Nashville, Tennessee, Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Lillian M. Genth 1876-1953: A Retrospective, 1990, pp. 11, 36, illustrated

Literature
George A. Hearn Gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the City of New York and Arthur Hoppock Hearn Memorial Fund, New York, 1913, p. 78, illustrated
Thomas Whipple Dunbar, "The Art of Lillian Genth: An Appreciation," Art World Magazine, December 16, 1924, p. 5 Catalogue of Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1926, p. 122
American Art Annual Biographical Directory of American Painters and Sculptors, New York, 1933, p. 134
E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, Paris, 1976, vol. 4, p. 671
Mantle Fielding, Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, New York, 1986, p. 320

$65,000

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