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John Singleton Copley
Date: 1763
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1992.28
Text Entries: Bayley, Frank W. <i>Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley</i>. Boston, Massachusetts: Garden Press, 1910. P. 56.<br><br> Bayley, Frank W. <i>The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley: Founded on the Work of Augustus Thorndike Perkins</i>. Boston, Massachusetts: The Taylor Press, 1915. P. 154.<br><br> Park, B. N. and A. B. Wheeler. <i>John Singleton Copley, American Portraits in Oil, Pastel and Miniature with Biographical Sketches</i>. Boston, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Arts, 1938. Text pp. 193–94; pl. 29.<br><br> Hipkiss, E. J. <i>M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts</i>. Boston, Massachusetts, 1941. Ill. no. 8, p. 17.<br><br> Prown, Jules David. <i>John Singleton Copley in America, 1738–1774</i>. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1966. Fig. 118 (black & white). <br><br> <i>American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston</i>. Vol. 1–2. Boston, Massachusetts, 1969. Vol. 1, text no. 256, p. 60; Vol. 2, fig. 39.<br><br> Adams, Henry. "Private Collector to Public Champion." <i>Portfolio Magazine</i> 5:1 (January/February 1983): 48–53. Ill. p. 52 (color).<br><br> Nochlin, Linda. <i>Woman</i>. (exh. cat., Terra Museum of American Art). Evanston, Illinois: Terra Museum of American Art, 1984. No. 2, p. 12 (color).<br><br> Sokol, David M. "The Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois." <i>The Magazine Antiques</i> 126:5 (November 1984): 1156–69. Pl. I, p. 1156 (color). <br><br> Atkinson, D. Scott et al. <i>A Proud Heritage: Two Centuries of American Art</i>. Edited by Terry A. Neff. (exh. cat., Terra Museum of American Art). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 1987. Pl. T-2, p. 111 (color).<br><br> <i>Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Dress</i>, John Singleton Copley. Collection Cameo sheet, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, September 1988. Ill. (black & white).<br><br> Bourguignon, Katherine M. and Elizabeth Kennedy. <i>An American Point of View: The Daniel J. Terra Collection</i>. Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2002. Text p. 42; ill. p. 42 (black & white).<br><br> Bourguignon, Katherine M. and Elizabeth Kennedy. <i>Un regard transatlantique. La collection d'art américain de Daniel J. Terra</i>. Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2002. Text p. 42; ill. p. 42 (black & white).<br><br> Davidson, Susan, ed. <i>Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation</i>. (exh. cat., National Museum of China, Beijing; Shanghai Museum). New York, NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; Chicago, IL: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2007. (Chinese and English version; citing English version). Ill. p. 67 (color).<br><br> Davidson, Susan, ed. <i>Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation</i>. (exh. cat., The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia). New York, NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; Chicago, IL: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2007. (Russian version). Ill. p. 55 (color).<br><br> Davidson, Susan, ed. <i>Art in the USA: 300 años de innovación</i>. (exh. cat., Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain). New York, NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; Chicago, IL: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2007. (Spanish version). Ill. p. 57 (color).<br><br> <i>Art Across America</i>. (exh. cat., National Museum of Korea, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art). Seoul, South Korea: National Museum of Korea, 2013. (English and Korean versions). Text p. 53; ill. p. 52 (color).<br><br> <i>America: Painting a Nation</i>. (exh. cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the National Museum of Korea, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art). Sydney, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2013. Text p. 50; ill. cat. no. 2, p. 51 (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 p. 19; fig. 2, p. 20 (color).<br><br>
Metadata Embedded, 2019
John Singleton Copley
Date: 1770–72
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund
Object number: 2000.6
Text Entries: Ostensibly commissioned on the occasion of her marriage at the age of eighteen, the portrait of the young Mrs. John Stevens serves as a commemoration of her youth and beauty and of her family's wealth. Fashionable in her uncorseted, draped satin dress and an exotic "oriental" turban on her head, she balances on her leg a basket of flowers, emblematic of love, beauty and fecundity. Today, the portrait, with its inclusion of formulaic associations to the "feminine," seems ironic: already a diligent diarist, Judith Sargent later became one of Boston's most celebrated writers and an activist for women's equality. Similar in subject is Frederick MacMonnies' painting of the young, intelligent and wealthy Alice Jones. MacMonnies depicts his future wife's fashionable persona; dressed in an elaborate, feathered hat and brilliant red dress, she sits against a blue-green tapestry in his studio. Rather than using emblems to convey meaning, MacMonnies' handling of paint-the bravura brushstrokes-not only animate the composition but also suggests the intensity of the sitter's personality. Yet, MacMonnies, like Copley, concerns himself less with a character study than with the external realities of the sitter's beauty and social position.