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Armand Hammer: The Private Collection

Mary Cassatt

Summertime

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7,000,000 - 10,000,000 USD

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Armand Hammer: The Private Collection

Mary Cassatt

(1844 - 1926)


Summertime

signed Mary Cassatt (lower right)

oil on canvas

29 by 39 ½ in.

73.7 by 100 cm.

Executed in 1894-95.


This work is included as no. 224 in the Cassatt Committee's revision of Adelyn Dohme Breeskin's catalogue raisonné of the works of Mary Cassatt.

Mrs. W. A. Carr, Philadelphia

Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles

Huntington Hartford, New York (acquired from the above by 1957)

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 10 March 1971, lot 28 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

New York, Knoedler Gallery, Loan Exhibition of Masterpieces by Old and Modern Painters, 1915 (not in catalogue)

Palm Beach, Society of the Four Arts, Loan Exhibition of Works by John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatt, 1959, no. 44, p. 12

Baltimore Museum of Art, Paintings, Drawings and Graphic Works by Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt, 1962, no. 116, p. 60 (dated circa 1895)

New York, Gallery of Modern Art, 1964 (long term loan)

Florida, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Inaugural Exhibition, 1965, no. 28, n.p., illustrated (dated circa 1895)

New York, Knoedler Galleries, The Paintings of Mary Cassatt: A Benefit Exhibition for the Development of the National Collection of Fine Arts, 1966, no. 25, n.p., illustrated

Southampton, New York, Parrish Art Museum, Miss Mary Cassatt: Paintings and the Graphic Arts, 1967, no. 2, n.p.

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926, 1970, no. 55, p. 28, illustrated (dated 1894)

The Armand Hammer Collection Exhibitions:

1971: Oklahoma City; San Diego; Los Angeles

1972: London; Dublin; St. Petersburg

1975: Tokyo; Kyoto

1976: Fukuoka; Nashville

1977: Mexico City; Atlanta

1978: Denver; Buffalo; Edinburgh; Oslo; Stockholm

1979: Houston

1980: Los Angeles; Washington, D.C.

1987: Bakersfield

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Cincinnati Art Museum (and traveling), American Impressionist Painting, 1973-74, no. 15, p. 71, illustrated

Bonifacio Global City, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Inaugural Exhibition, 1976

Paris, Musée du Petit Palais; East Berlin, National Art Gallery and Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst, Schweizergarten (and traveling), Impressionnistes Américains, 1982-83, no. 4, p. 18, illustrated in color (dated 1894)

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, American Paintings from the Armand Hammer Collection: An Inaugural Celebration, 1985, n.p., illustrated in color (dated 1894)

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Williamstown, Massachusetts, Williams College Museum of Art, Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints, 1989-90, fig. 18-2, p. 174; p. 175, illustrated in color (dated circa 1895)

Cologne, Wallraf–Richartz Museum and Kunsthaus Zürich, Landschaft im Licht: Impressionistische Malerei in Europa und Nordamerika 1860-1910, 1990, no. 23, fig. 72, p. 279, illustrated in color; p. 439 (dated 1894)

The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, 1998-99, no. 79, pp. 86, 125 and 325; p. 301, illustrated in color (dated circa 1894)

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Women Impressionists: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond, 2008, p. 152, illustrated in color; p. 310 (dated 1894) (Frankfurt); p. 40 and illustrated in color on the cover (dated circa 1894) (San Francisco) (San Francisco only)

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Degas to Chagall: Important Loans from the Armand Hammer Foundation and the Collection of Michael Armand Hammer, 2013-16

Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art and Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, Mary Cassatt Retrospective, 2016, fig. 1, p. 84, illustrated in color

Relman Morin, “Battle Over Modern Art Continuing” Corpus Christi Caller-Times, 10 February 1957, p. 5B, illustrated (in situ with Huntington Hartford)

Maurice Grosser, “Huntington Hartford’s Ivory Tower,” The Nation, vol. 198, no. 17, 20 April 1964, p. 402

Gallery of Modern Art, ed., Paintings from the Huntington Hartford Collection in the Gallery of Modern Art, New York, 1964, pl. 31, n.p., illustrated (dated circa 1895)

Emily Genauer, “Cassatt Enigma: Power Inhibited,” New York Herald Tribune, vol. 126, 2 February 1966, p. 14

John Maxon, Harold Joachim and Frederick A. Sweet, eds., Museum Studies 2, Chicago, 1967, p. 42 (dated 1894)

Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, no. 240, p. 116, illustrated

Meryle Seacrest, “The American Impressionist: The Lyrical Mary Cassatt Goes on Exhibit in Washington,” The Washington Post, vol. 93, no 289, 20 September 1970, p. K1, illustrated (dated circa 1894)

“Coming Auctions,” ARTnews, vol. 70, no. 1, March 1971, p. 50 (dated 1894)

“People in the News,” Amsterdam Evening Recorder, 11 March 1971, p. 1

Grace Glueck, “Hammer Bequeaths $12-Million in Art to 2 Museums,” The New York Times, vol. CXXI, no. 41,604, 21 December 1971, p. 50

“Dalí Painting Auctioned for $100,000, a Record,” The New York Times, vol. CXX, no. 41,319, 11 March 1971, p. 31

“Hartford Sells Art Collection,” The Washington Post, 12 March 1971, p. B2

E. John Bullard, Mary Cassatt: Oils and Pastels, New York, 1972, pl. 19, p. 58; p. 59, illustrated in color (dated 1894)

Mahonri Sharp Young, “The Hammer Collection: Paintings,” Apollo, vol. 95, June 1972, pl. IX, p. 451, illustrated in color; p. 454 (dated 1894)

Nancy Hale, Mary Cassatt, Garden City, New York, 1975, pp. 168, 183 and 291

Robert Galano, “Treasures at the Corcoran,” The Washington Post, 3 October 1980, p. 5

Frank Getlein, Mary Cassatt: Paintings and Prints, New York, 1980, p. 108; p. 109, illustrated in color (dated 1894)

Griselda Pollock, Mary Cassatt, New York, 1980, pl. XXIX, p. 61, illustrated in color; p. 71 (dated 1894)

Thomas J. Rollins, “The Armand Hammer Collection: Five Centuries of Masterpieces,” Art Voices, vol. 4, no. 2, March-April 1981, p. 95 (dated circa 1894)

Susan Barnes Robinson, ed., The French Impressionists in Southern California: Paintings, Sculptures and Prints in Public Collections, Los Angeles, 1984, p. 22; p. 23, illustrated in color (dated 1894)

Natalie Spassky, Mary Cassatt, New York, 1984, p. 18 (dated 1894)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ed., The Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles, 1985, no. 81, pp. 10, 141 and 240; p. 140, illustrated in color

Richard Shone, “Selected Autumn Exhibitions,” The Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, no. 994, January 1986, p. 60

Adele Cygelman, "Corporate Collections,” Orange Coast, vol. 12, no. 2, February 1986, p. 117

Nancy Mowll Mathews, Mary Cassatt, New York, 1987, fig. 91, p. 104, illustrated in color; pp. 107 and 109 (dated 1894)

Armand Hammer and Neil Lyndon, Hammer: Witness to History, New York, 1987, p. 443

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum and South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Berthe Morisot: Impressionist, 1987-88, fig. 85, p. 144; p. 145, illustrated (dated 1894)

Alison Effeny, Cassatt, London, 1991, p. 118; p. 119, illustrated in color (dated 1894)

Exh. Cat., Musée Américain Giverny, Lasting Impressions: American Painters in France, 1865-1915, 1992, p. 118 note 86 and 254

Nancy Mowll Mathews, Mary Cassatt, New York, 1992, pl. 11, illustrated in color (dated circa 1895)

Maria Constantino, Mary Cassatt, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1995, pp. 4 and 78-79, illustrated in color; p. 12 (dated 1894)

Gerhard Gruitrooy, Mary Cassatt: An American Impressionist, New York, 1996, pp. 56, 58, 72 and 75; p. 71, illustrated in color (dated circa 1894)

Christopher Wood, The Great Art Boom: 1970-1997, Surrey, England, 1997, p. 69

Griselda Pollock, Mary Cassatt: Painter of Modern Women, London, 1998, fig. 7, pp. 18, 24 and 219; p. 19, illustrated in color (dated 1893-94)

Exh. Cat., New Delhi, National Gallery of Modern Art; Mumbai, National Gallery of Modern Art and Singapore Art Museum (and traveling), La Collection Vollard du musée Léon-Dierx: Les donations de 1912 et 1947, 1999-2001, p. 57 (dated 1894)

Exh. Cat., Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Mujeres Impresionistas: La otra mirada, 2001-02, p. 103

Jeffrey Meyers, Impressionist Quartet: The Intimate Genius of Manet and Morisot, Degas and Cassatt, Orlando, Florida, 2005, pp. 264-65 (dated 1894)

“Women Impressionists,” Fine Arts, Summer 2008, p. 6, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland and Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Impressionist Gardens, 2010-11, p. 155

Ruth E. Iskin, Mary Cassatt Between Paris and New York: The Making of a Transatlantic Legacy, Oakland, CA, 2025, fig. 6.4, p. 211, illustrated (in installation photograph of New York, Knoedler Gallery, Loan Exhibition of Masterpieces by Old and Modern Painters, 1915); fig. 6.5, p. 212, illustrated in color (dated 1894)