Card Rack with a Jack of Hearts
c.1895
John F. Peto
John F. Peto (American, 1854–1907)
American Painting and Sculpture
Card Rack with a Jack of Hearts, c.1895. John F. Peto (American, 1854–1907). Oil on canvas; framed: 95.9 x 83.2 x 4.4 cm (37 3/4 x 32 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.); unframed: 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.); former: 95.9 x 83.2 x 5.7 cm (37 3/4 x 32 3/4 x 2 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1973.30 Living in a New Jersey resort town, Peto sold some of his paintings to tourists.
- Maker/Artist
- Peto, John Frederick
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 95.9 x 83.2 x 4.4 cm (37 3/4 x 32 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.); Former: 95.9 x 83.2 x 5.7 cm (37 3/4 x 32 3/4 x 2 1/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed upper right: "J F P"
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1973.30
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1973, Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976, The Magic of Still Life, Cleveland Collects American Art of the Gilded Age, The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, John F. Peto (1-24 March 1950); traveled to Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum of Art (11 April-21 May 1950); San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor (10 June-9 July 1950); cat. no. 36, not illus. <br>New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries Inc., Faces and Places: Changing Images of 19th Century America (5 December 1972-6 January 1973)<br>Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Heritage and Horizon: American Painting, 1776-1976 (6 March-11 April 1976); Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts (5 May-13 June 1976); Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art (4 July-15 August 1976); Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art (8 September-10 October 1976), illus. cat. no. 24. <br>Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Important Information Inside: The Art of John F. Peto and the Idea of Still-Life Painting in Nineteenth-Century America (16 January-29 May 1983); traveled to Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum (15 July-18 September 1983), cat. no. 189, illus. p. 201. <br>Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art Still-Life Paintings in Gallery 222 (1992?), pamphlet which seems to have accompanied a small show of still-lifes owned by the CMA; the 8/92 at the end of the pamphlet seems to indicate that is when this show took place, but this could not be confirmed.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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