Halsey Cooley Ives
- Date
- 1894–95
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- made in
- United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 217
- Dimensions
- 32 x 26 in. (81.3 x 66 cm)
framed: 45 x 39 1/8 in. (114.3 x 99.4 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of Peggy Ives Cole
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 1828:1981
NOTES
Halsey Ives leans forward at his desk in a pose that suggests his curiosity. Ives was the first director of the Saint Louis Art Museum (then known as the City Art Museum of Saint Louis) serving from 1881 until his death in 1911. The internationally known portraitist, Anders Zorn painted Ives on a visit to St. Louis in the mid-1890s when he also represented several prominent members of local society. The artist’s animated brushwork demonstrates the influence of French Impressionism upon his technique.
Provenance
by 1901 - still in 1925
Halsey Cooley Ives (1847-1911) and Margaret Ives, St. Louis, MO, USA [1]
Caroline Ives, acquired from Margaret Ives [2]
by 1973 - 1981
Peggy Ives Cole, Woodstock, NY; Essex, NY; Springfield, MO, acquired from Caroline Ives [3]
1981 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, given by Peggy Ives Cole [4]
Notes:
[1] Halsey C. Ives was the founder and first director of the City Art Museum of St. Louis (now the Saint Louis Art Museum). He and his wife, Margaret, had a close friendship with the artist and likely acquired the portrait directly from the artist upon its completion. Mr. Ives was noted as the lender of this painting for the 1901 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts exhibition ["Catalogue of the Seventieth Annual Exhibition." Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1901, no. 37]. There is also a label from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts on the reverse of the painting indicating Mr. Ives as the owner. Mrs. Ives is noted as the lender of this painting to the 1904 World's Fair Exposition, for which her husband was an organizer [Ives, Halsey C. "Illustrations of Selected Works in the Various National Sections of the Department of Art with Complete List of Awards by the International Jury, Universal Exposition St. Louis, 1904." St. Louis: Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, 1904, p.131]. Mrs. Ives is also named as the lender for a 1924-1925 exhibition at the Carnegie Institute ["Exhibition of Paintings by Anders Zorn." Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1927, no. 27].
[2] Caroline Ives is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Halsey C. Ives. On a 1981 appraisal form, the provenance indicates that the painting passed through family descent [1981 appraisal from Elizabeth Blagbrough, SLAM document files].
[3] Peggy Ives Cole is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Halsey C. Ives; Caroline Ives is her aunt. Peggy Ives Cole lent the portrait of her grandfather to the Museum for a long term loan in 1973, according to a loan agreement form dated July 16, 1973 [SLAM document files]. The painting was still on loan to the Museum when Peggy Ives Cole made a gift of it in 1981 [letter from Peggy Ives Cole, July 23, 1981 (erroneously dated 1980), SLAM document files].
[4] Minutes of the Acquisitions Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, September 18, 1981.
Halsey Cooley Ives (1847-1911) and Margaret Ives, St. Louis, MO, USA [1]
Caroline Ives, acquired from Margaret Ives [2]
by 1973 - 1981
Peggy Ives Cole, Woodstock, NY; Essex, NY; Springfield, MO, acquired from Caroline Ives [3]
1981 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, given by Peggy Ives Cole [4]
Notes:
[1] Halsey C. Ives was the founder and first director of the City Art Museum of St. Louis (now the Saint Louis Art Museum). He and his wife, Margaret, had a close friendship with the artist and likely acquired the portrait directly from the artist upon its completion. Mr. Ives was noted as the lender of this painting for the 1901 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts exhibition ["Catalogue of the Seventieth Annual Exhibition." Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1901, no. 37]. There is also a label from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts on the reverse of the painting indicating Mr. Ives as the owner. Mrs. Ives is noted as the lender of this painting to the 1904 World's Fair Exposition, for which her husband was an organizer [Ives, Halsey C. "Illustrations of Selected Works in the Various National Sections of the Department of Art with Complete List of Awards by the International Jury, Universal Exposition St. Louis, 1904." St. Louis: Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, 1904, p.131]. Mrs. Ives is also named as the lender for a 1924-1925 exhibition at the Carnegie Institute ["Exhibition of Paintings by Anders Zorn." Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1927, no. 27].
[2] Caroline Ives is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Halsey C. Ives. On a 1981 appraisal form, the provenance indicates that the painting passed through family descent [1981 appraisal from Elizabeth Blagbrough, SLAM document files].
[3] Peggy Ives Cole is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Halsey C. Ives; Caroline Ives is her aunt. Peggy Ives Cole lent the portrait of her grandfather to the Museum for a long term loan in 1973, according to a loan agreement form dated July 16, 1973 [SLAM document files]. The painting was still on loan to the Museum when Peggy Ives Cole made a gift of it in 1981 [letter from Peggy Ives Cole, July 23, 1981 (erroneously dated 1980), SLAM document files].
[4] Minutes of the Acquisitions Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, September 18, 1981.
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