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Themes: MLC Portfolio: American Identity

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Artist(s): Thomas Sully (Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England, Jun 19, 1783 - Nov 5, 1872, Philadelphia, PA
Title: Sarah Bringhurst Dunant
Date: 1812
Dimensions: 35 in. x 27 1/8 in. (88.9 cm x 68.9 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Gift of The Alfred and Margaret Caspary Foundation, Inc., in memory of Thomas Cochran, 1955.4
Location: On view in Gallery 205

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

Themes: MLC Portfolio: American Identity
Exhibitions: Regarding America: 19th Century Art from the Permanent Collection
Themes: Gender

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Early American Portraits, William Macbeth Gallery (William Macbeth, Inc.), 1/19/1937 - 2/1/1937
William Dunlap: Painter and Critic: Reflections on American Painting of a Cent, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/23/1939 - 10/24/1939
Scope in Collecting [25th Anniversary Exhibition], Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/19/1956 - 12/24/1956
The Works, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/7/1969 - 2/22/1970
Breaking Away: Paintings and Drawings of the Colonial and Federal Periods, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/3/1980 - 11/2/1980
Masterworks of American Art from the Addison Gallery Collection, Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc., 10/6/1981 - 10/31/1981
Boys and Girls, Men and Women, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/12/1990 - 6/10/1990
American Masterworks, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/5/1990 - 12/16/1990
American Portraits: Colonial to Contemporary, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/21/1992 - 5/10/1992
Presence of the Past: Decorative Arts at Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/21/1995 - 3/19/1995
Addison Gallery of American Art: 65 Years, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/13/1996 - 7/31/1996
Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 2/22/2000 - 3/26/2000
Identity and Intention: Two Centuries of American Portraiture, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/4/2001 - 12/30/2001
Art, Artists, and the Addison: Building a Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 3/30/2004 - 7/31/2004
Art and Craft, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/30/2005 - 7/31/2005
Child's Play: Children from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/29/2005 - 12/31/2005
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/19/2013 - 3/10/2013
Natural Selections, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/14/2013 - 3/16/2014
[Permanent Collection 201-5], Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/12/2014 - 7/31/2014
One Thing Leads to Another…Selections from the Collection , Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/30/2016 - 3/20/2016
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/1/2017 - 7/30/2017
The Art of Ambition in the Colonial Northeast, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2019 - 12/15/2019
Regarding America: 19th Century Art from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/23/2022 - 7/31/2022

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