Butler Institute of American Art 524 Wick Avenue Youngstown Ohio 44502 Accession Number: 929-O-104
Date:
1902
Notes:
"Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of American Art," Youngstown, OH: Butler Art Institute, 1951.
Butler Institute of American Art, "Sixty years of collecting American art: an index to the permanent collection," Youngstown, OH: The Institute, 1979.
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003, no. 413.
Sweetkind, Irene S., ed., "Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art," New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with The Butler Institute of American Art, 1994, pg. 148.
Sweetkind, Irene S., ed., "The Butler Institute of American Art Index of the Permanent Collection," Youngstown, OH: Butler Institute of American Art, 1997, pg. 150.
"Selections from the Permanent Collection: The Butler Institute of American Art," Youngstown, OH: Butler Institute of American Art, 1979, pg. 30.
Summary:
Portrait group of Mrs. Arthur Knowles (d. 1913) and her two sons, John Buchanan (b. 1895) and Richard Arthur Lees (b. 1897) seated together on a sofa. Mrs. Knowles wears a lilac-gray skirt and bodice with billowy ruffles and holds an open book on her lap. The boys wear pierrot costumes. A toy horse is on the ground in the foreground. A floral hanging is at left.
Topic:
Portrait group--Family--Mother & Child Search this
