The Artist's Wife, No. 2
Artist
Guy Pène du Bois
(American, 1884-1958)
CultureAmerican
Date1926
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 57 3/4 x 45 1/8 in. (146.7 x 114.6 cm)
Overall, Frame: 62 3/4 x 50 3/4 in. (159.4 x 128.9 cm)
Overall, Frame: 62 3/4 x 50 3/4 in. (159.4 x 128.9 cm)
InscribedSigned lower left: Guy Pène du Bois
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.1089
Not on view
DescriptionThis is an oil on canvas painting. It appears as if a spotlight from the upper left corner is highlighting the artist's wife and sheet music on the piano in front of her. She wears red in the foreground; the dark brown piano with music sheets and a gray wall create the background. She appears to have just casually swung around, her right hand still poised on the partially descending keys.Label TextGuy Pène du Bois American, 1884–1958 The Artist's Wife, no. 2, 1926 Oil on canvas Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.1089 ProvenanceJames Graham and Sons, Inc., New York; Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 1970; Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. to The Chrysler Museum, 1971. Exhibition History"Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum," Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Va., March 1 - July 4, 1976. "Guy Pène du Bois: Artist About Town," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 10 - November 30, 1980; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebr., January 10 - March 1, 1981; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., March 20 - May 10, 1981. Published ReferencesDennis R. Anderson, _Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum_, exh. cat., Norfolk, Va., 1975, 191. Mahonri Sharp Young, "Primitive to Pop," _Apollo_ 107 (April 1978), 46-51. Betsy Fahlman, _Guy Pène du Bois: Artist About Town_, exh. cat., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1980, 77, no. 35. _The Chrysler Museum: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Norfolk, Virginia_ (Norfolk: Chrysler Museum, 1982), 97. ISBN: 0-940744-37-6 Mary Pontillo, "Nouveau Riche, Family, Europeans, and Art Professionals: The Hidden Inferences in Guy Pène du Bois's Portraits of Women," Masters papers for James Madison University: Department of Art and Art History (22 April 2002): 8-12. 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), 168-169, no. 105. ISBN: 0-940744-71-6
19th century
