Mrs.
Kate Moore
(née
Katharine
Robinson)
John
Singer Sargent
-- American painter
1884
Hirshhron
Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Oil on
canvas
181.9
x 116.2 cm (71
5/8 x 45 3/4 in)
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Accession Number: 72.257
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A millionairess from
Pittsburgh,
Mrs. Kate Moore (1846 -1917) became one of the leading figures in Paris
high society especially among the expatiate Americans. She lavishly
entertained.
Sargent, no doubt was an invited guest to some. He would paint her a
number
of times. She was 38 at the time of this painting. Although certainly a
good commisssion, from what John wrote to Henry James about her in
1884,
it didn't sound like they were very close.
I am
dreadfully tired of the
people here and of my present work, a certain majestic portrait of an
ugly
woman [Mrs Kate Moore]. She is like a great frigate under full sail
with
homeward-bound steamers flying"
Mrs.
Katharine Moore
1884
Notes:
Provenance
The Artist, Paris
Mrs. Kate A. Moore, Pittsburgh and Paris
Sir Hugh Lane, London, to 1915 (death)
Mrs. Carroll Carstairs, New York
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1918-1921
Mrs. C.S.J. Carstairs, London, 1921-1923
Estate of Charles S. Carstairs, London, 1923-1930
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1930-1935
M. Knoedler & Co., London, 1935-1949
Huntington Hartford, New York, 1949-1969
Gallery of Modern Art, New York, by 1969-1971
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, sale 3185, 7-8 April 1971, lot. 24,
ill. p. 81
James Graham and Sons, New York, 8 April-11 May 1971
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 11 May 1971-6 March 1972
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Exhibition History
M. KNOEDLER & CO., New York. "Sargent-Thayer," December 1918.
M. KNOEDLER & CO., New York. "Twelfth Annual Summer Exhibition of
Paintings by American Arists," Summer 1919, no. 21.
CITY ART MUSEUM OF ST. LOUIS, Missouri. "Fourteenth Annual Exhibition
of Paintings by American Artists," 14 September-28 October 1919, no.
134, ill.
ALBRIGHT ART GALLERY, Buffalo, New York. "Important works by a number
of America's leading painters," 10 January-15 February 1920, ill. p. 2.
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS, Philadelphia. "The One Hundred
and Sixteenth Annual Exhibition," 6 February-27 March 1921, no. 83, ill.
CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM, Ohio. "Twenty Eighth Annual Exhibition of
American Art," 28 May-31 July 1921, cat., ill.
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, London. "Winter Exhibition of Works by the Late
John S. Sargent, R. A.," 14 January-13 March 1926, no. 589, ill.
ALBRIGHT ART GALLERY, Buffalo, New York. "25th Annual Exhibition of
Selected Paintings by American Artists," 26 April-22 June 1931, p. 24,
ill.
XIX BIENNALE INTERNAZIONALE D'ARTE, Venice. "Central Pavilion,"
May-October 1934, no. 25, p. 94.
SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS, Palm Beach, Florida. "John Singer Sargent and
Mary Cassat," 7 March-5 April 1959, no. 5, ill. p. 15.
GALLERY OF MODERN ART, New York. "The Huntington Hartford Collection,"
March-June 1964.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 1 October 1974-15 September
1975.
BROOKLYN MUSEUM, New York. "The American Renaissance 1876-1917," 13
October -30 December 1979. TOUR: NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE ARTS,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 22 February-20 April 1980;
FINE ART MUSEUM OF SAN FRANCISCO, 21 May-10 August; DENVER ART MUSEUM,
24 September-30 November.
GREY ART GALLERY AND STUDY CENTER, New York University. "Giovani
Boldini and Society Portraiture 1880-1920," 13 November-22 December
1984, cat. by Gary A. Reynolds, no. 37, ill. p. 63.
WHITNEY
MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, New York. "John Singer Sargent," 1
October 1986-4 January 1987, cat. by Patricia Hill, ill. pp. 174, 278.
TOUR: ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, 7 February-9 April 1987.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, DC. "The America's Smithsonian
150th Anniversary Exhibition," 1996. TOUR.
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