Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

The Furs

Artist Robert Reid (American, 1862 - 1929)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1910-11

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions36 1/4 x 30 in. (92.1 x 76.2 cm)
Overall, Frame: 46 x 40 x 3 in. (116.8 x 101.6 x 7.6 cm)

InscribedSigned lower right: Robert Reid

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.2153

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 217

DescriptionThis is an oil on canvas painting of a seated woman. She wears an elaborate black hat with decorations attached around the rim, a purple shirt under a luxurious fur jacket, left open, and brown gloves. She appears also to be wearing a vertically striped black and white blazer - could also be the interior of the jacket. Smiling slightly at the viewer, her left hand holds a bouquet of purple flowers. The wallpaper behind her uses green, yellow, orange and purple in a decorative pattern.

ProvenanceIrvin Brenner? (DA300) Victor Neirincx? (V to FK) These are names from Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.'s records. We don't have any further detail. At one time Reid had works in the collections of William T. Evans (went to SAAM), Joseph H. Choate, John Gellatly, Mrs. O. Y. P. Belmont, Edward D. Harkness, and Charles Deering. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. to the Chrysler Museum of Art, 1971. Exhibition History"Exhibition of The Ten," Montross Gallery, New York, N.Y., March 17 - April 8, 1911. (Exh. cat. no. 12, with The Reflection, Crystal Ball and Japanese Screen) "Corcoran Biennial Exhibition," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1921. (Exh. cat. no. 148 with Moon Phantoms) "Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum," Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Va., March 1 - July 4, 1976. "Veronese to Franz Kline: Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk," for the benefit of The Chrysler Museum Art Reference Library, Wildenstein & Co., New York, N.Y., April 13 - May 13, 1978. (Exh. cat. no. 38) "Woman," Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Ill., February 21 - April 22, 1984. "Hidden Treasures," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., November 26, 1985 - January 5, 1986. "Women of Fashion: French and American Images of Leisure, 1880-1920," Daimaru Museum Umeda, Osaka, Japan, March 16 - March 28, 1994; Daimaru Museum, Tokyo, Japan, April 7 - April 19, 1994; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan, April 29 - May 29, 1994. Published ReferencesJ. Nilsen Laurvik, _Boston Evening Transcript_ (March 23, 1911): 16. Dennis R. Anderson, _Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum_, exh. cat., Norfolk, Va., 1975, 161. Eric M. Zafran and Mario Amaya, _Veronese to Franz Kline: Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk_, exh. cat., Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., 1978, 36, 75, no. 38. Mahonri Sharp Young, "Primitive to Pop," _Apollo_ 107 (April 1978): 49, no. 7. Linda Nochlin, _Woman_, exh. cat., Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Ill., 1984, 27, no. 28. Roger D. Clisby, "Hidden Treasures from The Chrysler Museum," _The Chrysler Museum Bulletin_ 15, no. 11 (November 1985): 3. Joyce M. Szabo, "American Art - 1875-1913" _Gallery Guide_ (Norfolk: The Chrysler Museum, 1986), 3, no. 5. William H. Gerdts, et al., _Ten American Painters_, exh. cat., Spanierman Gallery, New York, N.Y., 1990, 50, 183. ISBN: 0945936079 Ulrich W. Hiesinger, _Impressionism In America: The Ten American Painters_ (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1991), 203, 208, fig. 59. ISBN: 3791311425 Gabriel P. Weisberg, _Women of Fashion: French and American Images of Leisure, 1880-1920_, exh. cat., Daimaru Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 1994, 163-164, cat. no. 52. ISBN: 4900446130 Martha N. Hagood and Jefferson C. Harrison, _American Art at the Chrysler Museum: Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings_ (Norfolk, Va.: Chrysler Museum of Art, 2005), 138-139, no. 86. ISBN: 0-940744-71-6