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Edmund Tarbell, American (1862-1938), "Portrait of Mary Van Ness Hyde", 1909, oil on canvas, 49…
Portrait of Mary Van Ness Hyde
Edmund Tarbell, American (1862-1938), "Portrait of Mary Van Ness Hyde", 1909, oil on canvas, 49 3/4 x 39 1/2 in. Photography by Michael Fredericks. SEE FILE FOR PROPER USAGE BASED CREDIT

Portrait of Mary Van Ness Hyde

Artist Edmund Tarbell American, 1862 - 1938
Subject Mary Van Ness Hyde (Whitney) American, 1903 - 1972
Date1909
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsStretcher: 49 3/4 × 39 1/2 in. (126.4 × 100.3 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 52 1/4 x 42 1/4 x 1 1/4 in. (132.7 x 107.3 x 3.2 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineSEE BELOW Exhibition, Publication, Educational: Gift of Franklin and Mary Renz Social Media, Advertising, Publicity/Public Relations, Merchandising/ Commercial: Anonymous Donor
Object number2015.7.1
On View
Not on view
Collections
  • American Paintings & Sculpture
DescriptionMary Van Ness Hyde, age 6, seated facing the viewer's left holding a pair of scissors in her right hand. She is wearing a long sleeved white dress with white stockings and short white boots. She has a blue bow on the left side of her head. At left is a low covered table and bowl. Backdrop has pink and blue leaf motifs.Exhibition HistoryMontross Gallery, New York, 1910.

"Copley Society Exhibition of Paintings by Edmund C. Tarbell," Copley Hall Boston, 1912.

"The Hyde Legacy", The Hyde Collection, May 27 - Sept. 12, 1982.

"Family Matters: American Impressionism and Realism", The Hyde Collection, Charles R. Wood Gallery, April 27 - July 27, 2003.

"American Portraiture from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries", The Hyde Collection, Hoopes Gallery, July 30 - Nov. 26, 2006.

"A Glens Falls Legacy: The Pruyn Family; A Shared Life: Selections from the Pruyn Family Collection," The Hyde Collection, Charles R. Wood Gallery, June 8 - August 24, 2008.

"Recent Acquisitions", The Hyde Collection, Hoopes Gallery, May 28, - October 7, 2016

"Growing up in Hyde House," Whitney-Renz Gallery, The Hyde Collection, Oct. 5, 2025 - Jan. 5, 2026.
Provenance1909, Glens Falls, NY, Mr. and Mrs. Louis F. Hyde
Mary Van Ness Hyde Whitney
Monroe, CT, Mary & Franklin Renz
2015, Glens Falls, NY, The Hyde Collection Trust
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