The Morning News
Frederick James Boston
American Art
Who wouldn’t prefer a newspaper to dirty dishes? Paintings of women reading newspapers were rare in the 1880s, and those featuring working-class mothers or maids even rarer. With few exceptions, newspapers were still the purview of men.
While he was an art student in Paris in the 1880s, Frederick Boston may have seen Mary Cassatt’s Impressionist portraits of her wealthy female relations reading newspapers. In the 1890s, Boston became a major figure on the Brooklyn art scene and served as the first art instructor at the fledgling Brooklyn Museum.
While he was an art student in Paris in the 1880s, Frederick Boston may have seen Mary Cassatt’s Impressionist portraits of her wealthy female relations reading newspapers. In the 1890s, Boston became a major figure on the Brooklyn art scene and served as the first art instructor at the fledgling Brooklyn Museum.
MEDIUM
Oil on canvas
DATES
1887
DIMENSIONS
28 × 22 in. (71.1 × 55.9 cm)
frame: 42 × 36 × 5 1/4 in. (106.7 × 91.4 × 13.3 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
2013.24
CREDIT LINE
Gift in loving memory of Mildred M. Lowe
PROVENANCE
Prior to 1945, provenance not yet documented; before 1945, purchased by Edith Price Golden Ruckert; 1945, inherited from Edith Price Golden Ruckert by Mabel Dorothy Ruckert Knapp Marshall; 1951, inherited from Mabel Dorothy Ruckert Knapp Marshall by Mildred Edna Knapp Marshall Lowe; ca. 2012, purchased from the estate of Mildred Edna Knapp Marshall Lowe by Linda Lowe Asmar; June 20, 2013, gift of Linda Lowe Asmar to the Brooklyn Museum.
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Frederick James Boston (American, 1855–1932). The Morning News, 1887. Oil on canvas, 28 × 22 in. (71.1 × 55.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift in loving memory of Mildred M. Lowe, 2013.24 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2013.24_PS22.jpg)
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overall, 2013.24_PS22.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2024
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