PAUL CADMUS | Studio Stuff

Senator William Benton, New York and Southport, Connecticut, by 1970
Helen Boley, Madison, Wisconsin, 1973 (his daughter, by descent)

Osaka, Japan, World Exposition; Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, The Benton Collection: 20th Century American Painting, March 1970-January 1971, no. 50, p. 32
Oxford, Ohio, Miami University Art Museum; Wichita, Kansas, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University; Charleston, South Carolina, Gibbes Art Gallery; Storrs, Connecticut, William Benton Museum of Art; Yonkers, New York, The Hudson River Museum, Paul Cadmus: Yesterday & Today, September 1981-July 1982, no. 35, p. 78, illustrated
Storrs, Connecticut, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, 1984 (on loan)
New York, Midtown Payson Galleries, Paul Cadmus: Still Life Portrait Tableaux, November-December 1994
Madison, Wisconsin, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006-2018 (on long-term loan)

Lincoln Kirstein, Paul Cadmus, New York, 1984, p. 136, illustrated p. 89
Guy Davenport, The Drawings of Paul Cadmus, New York, 1989, p. 9, illustrated

The following condition report has been provided by Simon Parkes, Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc. 502 East 74th St. New York, NY 212-734-3920, simonparkes@msn.com, an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's. This work in tempera is in wonderful condition. The board is flat. The surface is undisturbed, and the paint layer is stable. The paint layer seems to be clean and is unvarnished, as is appropriate. The original pigment reads fairly strongly under ultraviolet light, but there do not appear to be any restorations. There are a few tiny little losses on the extreme edges, which would be hidden beneath a traditional frame. Care should be taken not to disturb the beautiful surface, and the work should ideally be framed behind glass.
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