Frank Duveneck . longs The TurkishPage. The intensely alive portrait of JohnW. Alexander comes several years later. Thetwo paintings by Duveneck in the Boston Tav-ern Club were originally given to Vinton, theartist and art critic, who lent them and after-wards gave them to the club. One is a three-quarters length portrait of John Landis, a MEMORIAL TO ELIZABETH BOOTT DUVENECK 1891 The original model, made in Cincinnati, is the property of the Mu-seum. The photograph shows the bronze copy installed on her gravein the Campo Santo degli Allori in Florence, the cemetery inwhich Arnold Bocklin rest
Frank Duveneck . longs The TurkishPage. The intensely alive portrait of JohnW. Alexander comes several years later. Thetwo paintings by Duveneck in the Boston Tav-ern Club were originally given to Vinton, theartist and art critic, who lent them and after-wards gave them to the club. One is a three-quarters length portrait of John Landis, a MEMORIAL TO ELIZABETH BOOTT DUVENECK 1891 The original model, made in Cincinnati, is the property of the Mu-seum. The photograph shows the bronze copy installed on her gravein the Campo Santo degli Allori in Florence, the cemetery inwhich Arnold Bocklin rests. The Memorial was exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1895 anc* awardedthen an Honorable Mention. There is a marble copy in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, andcopies from the marble are owned by the Pennsylvania Academy ofFine Arts, the Chicago Art Institute, and the San Francisco ArtAssociation. Copies from the original model are in the MetropolitanMuseum, New York, and the John Herron Art Institute, uw [xl> Q hhO o 3Q XH m S» <N oH < O(xl FRANK DUVENECK 81 fellow artist of Duvenecks, whom the latterpainted several times. The other work is thespirited sketch of a Turk, garbed in a rich yel-low tunic. As a permanent representation of an artist,the Duveneck collection in the Cincinnati Mu-seum is unique. It comprises about one hun-dred paintings besides sculpture and etchingsand gives a complete account of his personal-ity. In the spring of 1915 he established andpresented as a gift to the Museum this wholecollection, together with a great number of im-portant works by other artists; in fact, we maysay his entire private collection. This gift wasmade, to use his own words, for the benefitparticularly of students of art in Cincinnati. Duveneck has now for many years dividedhis time between teaching, painting, and ad-vising in all artistic matters of importancein connection with the Cincinnati Duveneck has received a number of 82 FRANK DUVENECK
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