Author: Lewis, John Frederick et al.
Title: Memorial Exhibition of Portraits by Thomas Sully
Description: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1922. first edition. Softcover. Tan wraps. 181 pp. 72 bw plates. Exhibition held April 9 to May 10, 1922. Catalogue lists a whopping 235 paintings, and about 18 misc. items shown in cases. Includes an introductory essay and an extensive catalogue listing 253 entries. Also includes an index of subjects as well as an index of lenders. The largest exhibition of this artist's works to date. Albert Cook Myers and Ernest Spofford assisted in preparing the biographical notes. Introductory essay written by either Edward Biddle or Mantle Fielding (not signed). This is the first edition of this catalogue. A second edition also was printed with five additional pages, which mostly consist of an index to the portraits. This edition only has an index to lenders and about 26 fewer bw illustrations than the second edition. As New but with expected age-toning .

Keywords: 19th Century; Art; Portraiture; Thomas Sully; Excat ; Sully, Thomas ; Art ; Portraiture


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