William Sergeant Kendall American, 1869-1938 Narcissa, 1907 Signed Sergeant Kendall and dated Copyright 1907 (lr) Oil on canvas 51 x 30 inches Provenance: The artist The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., purchased from the Second Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1908 Chapellier Gallery, New York Private collection, West Palm Beach, FL Exhibited: Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 103rd Annual Exhibition, Feb. 4-Mar. 24, 1908, entry no. 113, exhib. cat. illus., n.p. Eden Park, OH, Cincinnati Museum, Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of American Art, May 23-Jul. 20, 1908, exhib. cat. no. 23 illus., n.p. Washington, DC, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2nd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Dec. 8, 1908-Jan. 17, 1909, no. 154 Literature: "A Fine Winter Academy," New-York Tribune, Jan. 19, 1908, C5, illus. Charles H. Caffin, "The Art of Sargeant Kendall," Harper's Monthly Magazine 117, Sept. 1908: 571-72 Catalogue of Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1915, 77, no. 217 Frank Jewett Mather, "Sergeant Kendall and his Art," Yale Alumni Weekly 31, Jul. 7, 1922, 1192-93 Kendall, who studied with Thomas Eakins in Brooklyn and Philadelphia, at the Art Students League, New York, and at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, was one of few American artists of his time to fuse the realism of the Eakins tradition with a classical approach to the figure. This blend may be seen in Narcissa, a depiction by the artist of his daughter Beatrice, painted in 1907. Showing his subject standing on a bed to observe a full-length view of herself in a mirror, Kendall captures the moment when a young girl has become aware of her coming womanhood, the mirror serving to express the theme of self-awareness. According to a record at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Kendall considered this work, in which he combined a refined draftsmanship that derived from his academic training with a sensitive interpretation of this transitional time of life, to be his most important. Of the painting, the noted critic Charles Caffin wrote: "I cannot recall any oil-painting of the nude in American art that approaches this one in purity of draughtsmanship or exquisiteness of feeling." (Harper's Monthly Magazine, 1908) C The Spanierman Gallery, LLC Collection of American Art
Frame rubbing. There is a touch of inpaint in the mirror at the upper left quadrant, approximately 1/2 round. There is some possible restoration in the face of the girl's reflection. There are some horizontal scratches to the surface along the upper register. There is no further restoration visible under UV light.
William Sergeant Kendall American, 1869-1938 Narcissa, 1907 Signed Sergeant Kendall and dated Copyright 1907 (lr) Oil on canvas 51 x 30 inches Provenance: The artist The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., purchased from the Second Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1908 Chapellier Gallery, New York Private collection, West Palm Beach, FL Exhibited: Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 103rd Annual Exhibition, Feb. 4-Mar. 24, 1908, entry no. 113, exhib. cat. illus., n.p. Eden Park, OH, Cincinnati Museum, Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of American Art, May 23-Jul. 20, 1908, exhib. cat. no. 23 illus., n.p. Washington, DC, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2nd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Dec. 8, 1908-Jan. 17, 1909, no. 154 Literature: "A Fine Winter Academy," New-York Tribune, Jan. 19, 1908, C5, illus. Charles H. Caffin, "The Art of Sargeant Kendall," Harper's Monthly Magazine 117, Sept. 1908: 571-72 Catalogue of Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1915, 77, no. 217 Frank Jewett Mather, "Sergeant Kendall and his Art," Yale Alumni Weekly 31, Jul. 7, 1922, 1192-93 Kendall, who studied with Thomas Eakins in Brooklyn and Philadelphia, at the Art Students League, New York, and at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, was one of few American artists of his time to fuse the realism of the Eakins tradition with a classical approach to the figure. This blend may be seen in Narcissa, a depiction by the artist of his daughter Beatrice, painted in 1907. Showing his subject standing on a bed to observe a full-length view of herself in a mirror, Kendall captures the moment when a young girl has become aware of her coming womanhood, the mirror serving to express the theme of self-awareness. According to a record at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Kendall considered this work, in which he combined a refined draftsmanship that derived from his academic training with a sensitive interpretation of this transitional time of life, to be his most important. Of the painting, the noted critic Charles Caffin wrote: "I cannot recall any oil-painting of the nude in American art that approaches this one in purity of draughtsmanship or exquisiteness of feeling." (Harper's Monthly Magazine, 1908) C The Spanierman Gallery, LLC Collection of American Art
Frame rubbing. There is a touch of inpaint in the mirror at the upper left quadrant, approximately 1/2 round. There is some possible restoration in the face of the girl's reflection. There are some horizontal scratches to the surface along the upper register. There is no further restoration visible under UV light.
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