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Behind it the metal hinges and wood panels of a door are visible."},"main_reference_number":"1958.296","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1888,"date_end":1888,"date_display":"1888","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"William Michael Harnett (American, born Ireland, 1848\u20131892)","place_of_origin":"United States","description":"<p>Still-life painter William Michael Harnett excelled at trompe l\u2019oeil, painting that fools the eye, through realistic depiction. In <em>For Sunday\u2019s Dinner<\/em>, a chicken hangs in front of a painted door with its throat cut and most of its feathers plucked; a few remaining downy spots stand out against the puckered, pimpled flesh. The metal door hinges, on the right side of the canvas, frame the chicken and echo its form. The painting\u2019s title and the rough, blemished surface of the door suggest a country dinner, the homey meal evoking nostalgia for a simpler past.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"94.3 \u00d7 53.6 cm (37 1\/8 \u00d7 21 1\/8 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":53,"height":94,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Signed and inscribed recto, bottom-left, in ochre paint: \"W\/H\/M ARNETT. \/ 1888.\".","credit_line":"Wilson L. Mead Fund","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Alfred Frankenstein, After the Hunt, William Harnett and other American Still Life Painters, 1870\u20131900 (Berkley, University of California Press, 1953), no. 116.\n\nFrederick A. Sweet, \u201cTwo Americans Paint a Still\u2013Life,\u201d Quarterly of The Art Institute of Chicago, 52, 4 (Dec. 1958), 95\u201399 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 210.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1968), 216.\n\nWilliam H. Gerdts et al., American Still\u2013Life Painting (Praeger, 1971), pl. XVI.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, One Hundred Masterpieces (Rand McNally and R.R. Donnelley, 1978), 105 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago. Pocketguide to The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1983), p. 37, no. 51.\n\nTom Armstrong, \u201cThe New Field\u2013McCormick Galleries in the Art Institute of Chicago,\u201d Magazine Antiques, 134, 4 (Oct. 1988), 822\u201335, pl. XVIII.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Little, Brown, and Company, 1988), 96 (ill.).\n\nDoreen Bolger et al., William M. Hartnett (Abrams, 1992), 57, 80, 88, 95, 166, 282, pl. 42.\n\nJudith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998).\n \nJudith A. Barter, \"True to the Senses and False in Its Essence: Still\u2013Life and Trompe l'Oeil Painting in Victorian America,\" Museum Studies 31, 1 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2005) p. 40 (ill.).\n\nJudith Barter et al., <em>Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine<\/em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 142\u201345, 222, cat. 23, fig. 5 (ill.).","exhibition_history":"New York, National Academy of Design, Seventh Autumn Exhibition, Nov. 19\u2013Dec. 15, 1888, cat. 44.\n\nPhliadelphia, Wanamaker's Department Store, late 1888\/early 1889.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/exhibitions\/4071\/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950\"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950<\/em><\/a>, Oct. 1, 1959\u2013Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].\n\nLa Jolla Museum of Art, The Reminiscent Object, Paintings by William Michael Harnett, John Frederick Peto, and John Haberle, July 11\u2013Sept. 19, 1965, cat. 21; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Sept. 28\u2013Oct. 31, 1965. \n\nPhiladelphia, Peale Galleries of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Two Illusionist Painters, William Michael Harnett and John Frederick Peto, Mar. 11\u2013Apr. 17, 1966, cat. 2.\n\nNew York City, Coe Kerr Gallery, One Hundred\u2013Fifty Years of American Still\u2013Life Painting, Apr. 27\u2013May 16, 1970, cat. 32.\n\nSacramento, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Munich and American Realism in the Nineteenth Century, Oct. 28\u2013Dec. 10, 1970, cat. 37.\n\nCincinnati Art Museum, Munich & American Realism in the 19th Century, Apr. 20\u2013May 28, 1978; Milwaukee Art Center, July 13\u2013Aug. 27, 1978; Sacramento, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Oct. 28\u2013Dec. 10, 1978.\n\nNew York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art, William H. Harnett, Mar. 16\u2013June 14, 1992; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum, July 17\u2013Oct. 18, 1992, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Nov. 14, 1992\u2013Feb. 14, 1993, Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Mar. 14\u2013June 13, 1993 (New York only).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/exhibitions\/1399\/art-and-appetite-american-painting-culture-and-cuisine\"><em>Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine<\/em><\/a>, Nov. 10, 2013\u2013Jan. 27, 2014, cat. 23; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Feb. 22\u2013May 18, 2014.","provenance_text":"John Hedges, Philadelphia, (not documented). Joann Kolodny, Baltimore, by 1953. L. Manuel Hendler, Baltimore; Baltimore Museum of Art, from 1957 to 1958; M. 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