The Blue Gown

1917

Frederick Carl Frieseke American, 1874-1939

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About the Artwork

Title The Blue Gown

Artwork Date 1917

Artist Frederick Carl Frieseke

Life Dates 1874-1939

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 39 × 60 inches (99.1 × 152.4 cm) Framed: 45 × 66 1/8 × 2 3/4 inches (114.3 × 168 × 7 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Special Membership and Donations Fund with contributions from Philip, David and Paul R. Gray, and their sister Mrs. William R. Kales

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 19.34

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Signed Signed and dated, lower right: F. C. Frieseke 1917

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Frederick Carl Frieseke

1919-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Burroughs, Clyde H. "Painting by F. C. Frieseke Acquired." Bulletin of the DMA 13, 1 (October 1918-May 1919): pp. 59-61 (ill.).

Exh. cat., Boston Art Club. Boston, 1919, no. 11. [Exhibited in January or February; see letter to R. W. MacBeth dated February 22, 1919]

Impressionism in America. Exh. cat., University of New Mexico Art Gallery. Albuquerque, February 8-May 15, 1965, no. 13 (ill.).

Gibson, Arthur Hopkin, ed. Artists of Early Michigan Detroit, 1975, p. 106 (ill.).

American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1989, pp. 166-169.

Kilmer, Nicholas and Linda McWorter. Frederick Karl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist. Exh. cat., The Telfair Museum of Art. Savannah, GA, 2001, pp. 71-97.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Frederick Carl Frieseke, The Blue Gown, 1917, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Special Membership and Donations Fund with contributions from Philip Gray, et al., 19.34.