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The Ghost Story
1887
Walter MacEwen
Walter MacEwen (American, 1860–1943)
American Painting and Sculpture
The Ghost Story, 1887. Walter MacEwen (American, 1860–1943). Oil on canvas; unframed: 121 x 191.5 cm (47 5/8 x 75 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness 1923.416
- Maker/Artist
- MacEwen, Walter
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 121 x 191.5 cm (47 5/8 x 75 3/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed upper left: W. McEWEN
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1923.416
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness
- Exhibitions
- Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914, Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art, Paris, Le Salon de 1888 (1888), p. 28-9, ill. p. 28.<br>Paris, Universal Exposition, (1889) cat. no. 203; catalogue reproduced in Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition listed and illus. p. 285; painting won the Silver Medal (Deuxième Medaille).<br>Paris 1889 states page 182-183 that this work was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1890, but no records from the AIC can be found to confirm this. <br>Miliken’s July 1923 Bulletin article notes that with this painting, MacEwen was Hors Concours at Paris, 1890. <br>Chicago, IL, United States, Gallery 9, Oil Paintings, Fine Arts Palace, World’s Columbian Exposition (1893); listed cat. no. 801, p. 59 as Telling Ghost Stories.<br>Antwerp, Universal Exposition (1894); painting won Medaille d’Honneur. <br>Vienna, International Exposition, (1902); painting won Grande Medaille d’Or . <br>Cleveland, OH, East Cleveland Public Library (14 March - 27 April 1978).<br>Detroit, MI, Detroit Institute of Arts, The Quest for Unity: American Art Between World’s Fairs, 1876-1893 (22 August - 30 October 1983), no. 150.<br>Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition (25 January - 15 April 1990), p. 182-3, no. 203, p. 285, color ill. p. 184.<br>Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (9/26/2009 - 1/3/2010): "Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914", ex. cat. no. 34, p. 148-149.
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted
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