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I think it may be a painting by American artist John White Alexander
(1856-1915). I cannot recall the title of the painting, though.
Mary Beth Kreiner
Cranbrook Academy of Art Library
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Subject: Identifying Painting
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Date: 1/26/97 9:08 PM
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One of our support staff is trying to identify a painting she saw in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art's catalog as port of their "Women in White"
notecard set. The woman is lying more or less prone on a sofa, her arms
resting on its arm. The skirt of her white dress spreads rather
dramatically over the sofa and down to the floor; it appears to have a
black stripe in the middle of it. It looked familiar to me, and I guessed
Sargent. My colleague thought the same but hadn't been able to find it
reproduced in our books on Sargent. Either we're wrong about the artist
or it just didn't happen to appear in the books we have. Sound familiar
to anyone? Other artists mentioned as being represented in the set are
Chase & Weir but they're not the only ones.
Thanks--
Edith Crowe
San Jose State University Library
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