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Theodore Earl Butler

Date: 1896

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1992.21

Text Entries: Giverny: summered 1888-1891; resident 1892 (returning temporarily to the States during the war) Four years after making his first trip to Giverny, Theodore Butler married Claude Monet's step-daughter Suzanne Hoschedé, an event memorialized by Theodore Robinson canvas of The Wedding March. In the years following, his wife and their two children, James and Alice, became frequent subjects for Butler's paintings-domestic scenes often marked by brilliant color and exuberant brushwork. The interior scene of The Card Players-Suzanne; daughter Alice; Suzanne's sister, Marthe; and artist William Howard Hart-was completed one year before Suzanne's untimely death.

Theodore Earl Butler

Date: 1897

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1987.3

Text Entries: <i>Claude Monet and the Giverny Artists</i>. (exh. cat., Charles E. Slatkin Galleries). New York: Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, 1960. Ill. no. 13.<br><br><i>T. E. Butler, 1860–1936</i>. (exh. cat., Hammer Galleries). New York: Hammer Galleries, 1963. Ill. no. 34.<br><br>Sellin, David. <i>Americans in Brittany and Normandy</i>. (exh. cat., Phoenix Art Museum). Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum, 1982. Ill. no. 91, p. 206 (black & white).<br><br>Love, Richard H. <i>Theodore Earl Butler: Emergence from Monet's Shadow</i>. Chicago, Illinois: Haase-Mumm Publishing Company, Inc., 1985. Text pp. 180–83, 197; pl. 35 (color detail), pl. 36 (color detail), pl. 37 (color).