The Ghost Story

Mrs. Edward S. Harkness.

Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914. Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (organizer) (September 26, 2009-January 3, 2010). Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art. The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (June 12-September 5, 2021); Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (October 7, 2021-January 2, 2022); Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (organizer) (February 19-May 15, 2022). Paris, Le Salon de 1888 (1888), p. 28-9, ill. p. 28. 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). 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. Miliken’s July 1923 Bulletin article notes that with this painting, MacEwen was Hors Concours at Paris, 1890. 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. Antwerp, Universal Exposition (1894); painting won Medaille d’Honneur. Vienna, International Exposition, (1902); painting won Grande Medaille d’Or . Cleveland, OH, East Cleveland Public Library (14 March - 27 April 1978). 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. 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. 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.