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Artist or Maker: Arthur Beecher Carles (1882-1952)
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Provenance: Earl Horter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Helen Lloyd Horter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Paula M.L. Kelly, by descent.
Sotheby's, New York, 21 September 1994, lot 173.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
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Exhibited: Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Arts Club, 1935, no. 19.
Huntington, New York, The Heckscher Museum of Art, The Collector's Eye: American Art from Long Island Collections , October 12-December 1, 1996.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Philadephia Museum of Art, Mad for Modernism: Earl Horter and His Collection , March 7-May 16, 1999.
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Notes: Property from the Estate of Richard Ward Foster
According to Barbara A. Wolanin, the present work is one among a series of three portraits of Helen Seyffert depicted in a similar pose that the artist painted in 1920 and 1921. This work resembles the final composition titled Woman in White (1920, Estate of Joseph H. Hirshorn), which is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Arthur B. Carles: Painting with Color . Mrs. Seyffert was a fellow painter and the wife of portrait painter Leopold Seyffert.
