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Wilmerding Pavilion
Philip & Nancy Anschutz Gallery
Mildred Clarke von Kienbusch,
1914
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Handbook Entry
Early in 1914, Mildred Clarke von Kienbusch and her husband, Carl Otto, attended a New York exhibition of paintings by The Eight, a group consisting of former newspaper illustrators like Robert Henri, its founder, who had come together in frustration over the perceived rarefied atmosphere at the National Academy of Design and its restrictive exhibition policies. Attracted to Henri’s grittily vital aesthetic, the young von Kienbusches looked him up in the telephone book. The eventual result was this portrait — characteristic of Henri’s work at the time in its subdued palette enlivened by splashes of bright color — which Carl, who subsequently became one of the Museum’s major benefactors, donated in memory of his wife.
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1914
North America, United States, New York, New York
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The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 1956)
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Patrick J. Kelleher, "Preface", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 27, no. 2 (1968): p. 47.
, p. 47 - Frances Browne, "Mildred Clarke Pressinger von Kienbusch", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 27, no. 2 (1968): p. 48., p. 48
- Carl Otto von Kienbusch, "Mildred Clarke Pressinger von Kienbusch July 12, 1887-June 4, 1968", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 27, no. 2 (1968): p. 49-50., p. 49 (illus.); p. 50
- "The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr., Memorial Collection," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, vol. 36, no. 2 (1977): p. 24-32., p. 24
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1977," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 37, no. 1 (1978): p. 28-40., p. 32
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 87, fig. 1; pp. 301–302, checklist no. 140; p. 302 (left half of verso, rotated illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 141 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 365
