Provenance
Probably Mrs. Curtis, Washington, DC, by 1956 or 1959;
Probably purchased from Curtis by Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, 1956 or 1959–April 25, 1969 [1];
Their gift, through the Starr Foundation, Inc., Kansas City, MO, to the Philbrook Art Center, now Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, 1969.
Notes
[1] As recorded in the Philbrook Museum of Art donor file. Two separate notes in Mrs. Starr’s hand indicate this work was purchased in Washington, D.C. One refers to Mrs. Curtis in 1956, while the other does not mention a source and gives the date as 1959.
This work was previously attributed to, and likely sold to the Starrs as a work by, Thomas Sully (American, 1783–1872). After consultation with Carol Aiken and Elle Shushan in 2012, the attribution was removed.
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