Portrait of Emily Crane Chadbourne

Modern Art

1922

Tsugouharu Foujita
Japanese, 1886–1968

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Artist: Tsugouharu Foujita
Title: Portrait of Emily Crane Chadbourne
Origin: Japan
Date: 1922
Medium: Tempera and silver leaf on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed, l.l.: [Tsuguharu]/T. Foujita/ Paris/1922
Dimensions: 35 1/4 x 57 1/2 in. (89.5 x 146.1 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
Reference Number: 1952.997
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Michel-G. Vaucaire, Foujita (Paris: Les Éditions G. Cres et Cie, 1926), n.p. (ill.), as Le Portrait de Madame C …
Reinhardt Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Foujita, exh. cat. (New York: Reinhardt Galleries, 1930), n.p., cat. 19, as Portrait.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1961), p. 163, as Emily Crane Chadbourne, 1922.
A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 42, no. 1G7, as Portrait of Mrs. E. C. Chadbourne, 1922.
Jean Selz, Foujita (New York: Crown Publishers, 1981), pp. 38 (ill.), 96, as Portrait of Emily Crane Chadbourne, 1922.
Sylvie Buisson and Dominique Buisson, La vie et l’oeuvre de Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita (Paris: ACR Edition, 1987), pp. 77 (ill.), 364 (ill., no. 22.08), as Portrait d’Emily Crane Chadbourne, 1922.
Phyllis Birnbaum, Glory in a Line: A Life of Foujita-the Artist Caught between East and West (New York: Farber and Farber, 2006), pp. 108-111, opp. 206 (ill.), as Portrait of Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne, 1922.

New York, Reinhardt Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Foujita, November 8–28, 1930, n.p., cat. 19, as Portrait.
Tokyo, The Asahi Shimbun, Retrospective Léonard Foujita: A Retrospective Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of his Death, July 31–Oct. 8, 2018, cat. 31; traveled to Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, Oct. 19–Dec. 16, 2018.

Commissioned by Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne, Washington, DC and Stone Ridge, New York, by 1922 [Birnbaum 2006]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 12, 1952.

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