Currently on View at the Art Institute of Chicago

Lilly Martin Spencer

Date: c. 1867–68

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund

Object number: 2007.1

Text Entries: Orange, Judd, and Company. “A Beautiful Gift. A Picture for the Home Circle. ‘Dandelion Time.’ by Mrs. Lilly M. Spencer.” <i>Hearth and Home</i> (January 14, 1871): 36. Text p. 36.<br><br> Orange, Judd, and Company. “A Beautiful Gift. A Picture for the Home Circle. ‘Dandelion Time.’ by Mrs. Lilly M. Spencer.” <i>Hearth and Home</i> (February 25, 1871): 156. Text p. 156.<br><br> Orange, Judd, and Company. “A Beautiful Gift. A Picture for the Home Circle. ‘Dandelion Time.’ by Mrs. Lilly M. Spencer.” <i>Hearth and Home</i> (April 8, 1871): 276. Text p. 276.<br><br> Orange, Judd, and Company. “A Beautiful Gift. A Picture for the Home Circle. ‘Dandelion Time.’ by Mrs. Lilly M. Spencer.” <i>Hearth and Home</i> (July 8, 1871): 535. Text p. 535.<br><br> Bolton-Smith, Robin and William Truettner. <i>Lilly Martin Spencer, 1822–1902: The Joys of Sentiment</i>. (exh. cat., National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.) Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1973. Text, p. 189.<br><br> <i>American Paintings, 1850–1965</i>. (exh. cat., Spanierman Gallery, New York, New York). New York, New York: Spanierman Gallery. Text, p. 6; ill. no. 6, p. 6 (color).<br><br> Conner, Holly Pyne. <i>Angels and Tomboys: Girlhood in Nineteenth-century American Art</i>. (exh. cat., Newark Museum). Newark, New Jersey: Newark Museum, 2012. Text pp. 21, 23–24, 174 (checklist); ill. fig. 1, opposite p. 11(color).<br><br> Leggio, Gail. “Angels and Tomboys: Picturing the American Girl.” <i>American Arts Quarterly</i> 30 (Winter 2013): 23–31. Text p. 24.<br><br> Brownlee, Peter John, Sarah Burns, Diane Dillon, Daniel Greene, and Scott Manning Stevens. <i>Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North.</i>(exh. cat., Terra Foundation for American Art and Newberry Library). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Text pp. 11, 102–103, 114, 116, 117–118, 121–122, 123, 125, 164 (checklist), 178n33, 178n34, 1789n43; ill. p. 100, fig. 58 (color), p. 201, fig. 59 (color detail).<br><br> <i>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</i>. (exh. cat. Shanghai Museum with Art Institute of Chicago and Terra Foundation for American Art). Shanghai: Shanghai Museum, 2018. Text p. 20; ill. p. 21 (color).<br><br> Bourguignon, Katherine M., and Peter John Brownlee, eds. <i>Conversations with the Collection: A Terra Foundation Collection Handbook.</i> Chicago: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2018. Text pp. 84-86, 95; fig. 4, p. 85; ill. p. 95 (color).