PROPERTY OF THE TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT FUTURE ACQUISITIONS

LILLA CABOT PERRY (1848-1933)
Self-Portrait
signed and dated 'L.C. Perry-/1897' (upper left)
oil on canvas
39 ¼ x 29 in. (99.7 x 73.7 cm.)
Painted in 1897.

PROVENANCE
The artist.
Estate of the above.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York.
Marvin Sadik, Washington, D.C.
Mr. & Mrs. John Mason, Washington, D.C.
Marvin Sadik, Washington, D.C.
Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1988.

EXHIBITED
Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe East Gallery, Lilla Cabot Perry: Days to Remember, April 16-May 31, 1983.
Giverny, France, Musée d'Art Américain Giverny, Impressions of Giverny (Impressions de Giverny), April 1-October 31, 1997.
Giverny, France, Musée d'Art Américain Giverny, Giverny: Une Impression Américaine (Giverny: An American Impression), April 1-November 1, 1998.
Chicago, Illinois, Terra Museum of American Art, On Process: Studio Themes, January 13-March 4, 2001.
Chicago, Illinois, Terra Museum of American Art, (Re)Presenting Women, October 16, 2001-January 13, 2002.
Giverny, France, Musée d'Art Américain Giverny, D'une Colonie à Une Collection: Le Musée d'Art Américain Giverny Fête Ses Dix Ans (From a Colony to a Collection: Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the Musée d'Art Américain Giverny), March 30-June 16, 2002.
Hamburg, Germany, Bucerius Kunst Forum, High Society: American Portraits of the Gilded Age, June 6-August 31, 2008, pp. 42, 120-21, illustrated.

LITERATURE
E.E. Hirshler, A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston, 1870-1940, exhibition catalogue, Boston, Massachusetts, 2001, pp. 80-82, 87, 89, 93, 147, 148, 190, illustrated.
E. Kennedy, "The Terra Museum of American Art," American Art Review, December 2002, pp. 130, 135, illustrated.
Impressionism in Boston, exhibition catalogue, Nagoya, Japan, 2003, p. 90, illustrated.
E. Kennedy, S. Lévy, Faces of America: Portraits of the Terra Foundation for the Arts Collection, 1770-1940, exhibition catalogue, Chicago, Illinois, 2004, pp. 27, 29, 33, illustrated.