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Mary Holland Bacher

Mary Holland Bacher

1891
(American, 1856–1909)
America, Ohio, Cleveland
oil on canvas
Unframed: 90.6 x 57.4 cm (35 11/16 x 22 5/8 in.)
Gift of Will Low Bacher 1966.388
Location: not on view

Description

Bacher was the first artist from Cleveland to achieve international renown, and this portrait of his wife exemplifies the Impressionist style he adopted after studying in Paris during the late 1880s. The painting’s unusual subject testifies to the emergence of tennis as one of the few sports of the era in which women could participate without being considered inappropriately masculine or uncouth.
  • -1966
    Will Low Bacher [1898-1982], the artist's son, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1966-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Sackerlotzky, Rotraud, Mary Sayre Haverstock, Nan Grossman. F.C. Gottwald and the Old Bohemians. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Artists Foundation, 1993. Reproduced: p. 23; Mentioned: p. 21, 26
  • Midwestern Visions of Impressionism. Massillon Museum, Massillon, OH (organizer) (May 26-August 19, 2007); Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH (July 31-October 18, 2008).
    Massillon Museum, OH (5/26/2007 - 8/19/2007) and Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH (7/31/2008 - 10/12/2008): "Midwestern Visions of Impressionism", ex. cat. no. 36, p.44.
    South Hadley, MA, Mount Holyoke College, The Sporting Woman: The Female Athlete in American Culture (13 April-1 August 2004), no cat.
    The Sporting Woman: The Female Athlete in American Culture. Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA (organizer) (April 1-July 31, 2004).
    Columbus, Columbus Museum of Art, Triumph of Color and Light: Ohio Impressionists and Post-Impressionists (6 February-15 May 1994); traveled to Spingfield, Springfield Museum of Art (late Fall 1994); to Youngstown, Butler Institute of American Art (14 March-30 April 1995), cat. no. 4, illus. p. 43.
    Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Fraternité: Artistic Relations Between France and America (21 July-18 October 1987), no cat.
    Cleveland, One Cleveland Center Gallery, The Cleveland Museum Presents Four Cleveland Artists: George Adomeit, Otto Bacher, Frederick Gottwald, and Walter Sinz (15 October-2 November 1984)
    American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, OH (organizer) (July 7-November 1, 1979).
    Coshocton, OH, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, American Paintings 1825-1915 from The Cleveland Museum of Art (7 July-1 November 1979), no cat. numbered.
    American Impressionistic Painting. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (July 1-August 12, 1973); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (September 18-November 12, 1973); The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (December 15, 1973-January 31, 1974); North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (March 8-April 29, 1974).
    Washington, National Gallery of Art, American Impressionist Painting (1 July-26 August 1973); traveled to New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art (18 September-2 November 1973); to Cincinnati, Cinncinnati Art Museum (15 December 1973-31 January 1974); to Raleigh, The North Carolina Museum of Art (8 March-29 April 1974); cat. no. 1, illus. p. 53
    New York, Fourteenth Exhibition of the Society of American Artists (1892)
    Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967).
    New York, New York World's Fair, Masterpieces of Art: Catalogue of European & American Paintings 1500-1900 (May-October 1940), cat. no. 311-a, listed p. 216-217.
    New York, The Walpole Galleries, Exhibition and Sale of Paintings of the Late Otto H. Bacher (13, 22-23, January 1917), cat. no. 45 under title Portrait of a Lady; listed p. 11.
    Buffalo, Pan-American Exposition: Division of the Fine Arts (1901), cat. no. 272, listed p. 25.
  • {{cite web|title=Mary Holland Bacher|url=false|author=Otto H. Bacher|year=1891|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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