James Nixon, Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1790

With the Art Trading Company, New York, 1937 [1];

Purchased from the Art Trading Company by Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, 1937–August 7, 1958;

Their gift, through the Starr Foundation, Inc., Kansas City, MO, to the Philbrook Art Center, now Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, August 7, 1958 [2].

Notes

[1] As recorded in the deed of gift and the Philbrook Museum of Art object file. The Art Trading Company and Snyderman Gallery marketed themselves using both names at the same address and were likely managed by the same person, I. Snyderman. They advertised miniatures, as well as gold and enameled boxes, in The Art News and also specified in the phone book that they sold coins. The Starrs mention both the Art Trading Company and “Snyderman’s” in the provenance records for their collection. They list this miniature as being purchased from the Art Trading Company.

[2] Metal case is engraved on the reverse “Ozias Humphrey R.A.,” and the Starr deed of gift lists this work as by Humphrey. However, the miniature was attributed to Nixon after consultation with Carol Aiken and Elle Shushan in 2012.

Manhattan Telephone Directory 1959–1960 (New York: New York Telephone Company, 1959).

The Art News 37, no. 4 (May 27, 1939): 28.