TitleGreek Girl
Artist
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg
(1814 - 1889)
Daten.d.
MediumOil on cardboard
DimensionsUnframed: 12 3/8 × 9 7/8 in.
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Bequest of James A. Suydam, 1865
Object number1326-P
Label TextEarly in 1850, Kellogg created a work entitled Greek Girl on a commission from George Riggs of Washington, D.C. He painted it in a room in the new National Academy headquarters at 663 Broadway, New York, and it was shown at the Academy's annual exhibition in 1851. The painting remained in Rigg's collection until at least 1886. Another work of the same title was shown at the Maryland Historical Society in 1850, loaned for exhibition by D. S. Carr, and it is probably that painting which remains in the Historical Society's collection today.Both of these paintings may be chronologically as well as thematically related to the work now in the National Academy's collection. All three were certainly based on the experiences Kellogg had in the Near East during the 1840s.
In 1854, James A. Suydam loaned a work called Maltese to the Academy's annual exhibition; this may be the painting now in the Academy's collection under the title Greek Girl. In fact, by the time Suydam bequeathed his collection to the Academy in 1865, it contained three works by Kellogg: Circassian Girl (see below) and two paintings with the title Greek Girl. Based on an insurance valuation done of the collection in 1880, Circassian Girl, which was valued at $75.00, was evidently slightly larger than the other two, which were valued at $50.00 each. This conclusion is in keeping with the relative sizes of the two paintings by Kellogg which are now owned by the Academy.
One of the Greek Girl's had disappeared from the Academy's collection by 1911.
1902
