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Themes: MLC Portfolio: Houses and Homes

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Artist(s): Enoch Wood Perry (Boston, MA, Jul 31, 1831 - Dec 14, 1915, New York, NY)
Title: Preparing for Thanksgiving Dinner
Date: 1872
Dimensions: 28 in. x 36 in. (71.12 cm x 91.44 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas mounted on masonite
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Museum purchase, 1954.6

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Themes: MLC Portfolio: Houses and Homes
Themes: Gender

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Clothes Make the Man, Denver Art Museum, 3/1/1956 - 4/30/1956
Scope in Collecting [25th Anniversary Exhibition], Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/19/1956 - 12/24/1956
Art in American History, Addison Gallery of American Art, 7/22/1962 - 10/28/1962
Boys and Girls, Men and Women, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/12/1990 - 6/10/1990
Inside and Out: Scenes of American Life from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/26/2000 - 12/31/2000
Child's Play: Children from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/29/2005 - 12/31/2005
Loan to Head of School's Office, Phillips Academy, Phillips Academy, 1/30/2008 - 1/30/2011
[Permanent Collection 201-5], Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/12/2014 - 7/31/2014
Walls and Beams, Rooms and Dreams: Images of Home, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/23/2016 - 7/31/2016

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