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	4. Joseph DeCamp (1858-1923) The Blue Mandarin Coat (The Blue Kimono), 1922 Oil on canvas 43 x 37 1/4 inches Signed and dated upper left: Joseph DeCamp 1922

Joseph DeCamp (1858-1923)
The Blue Mandarin Coat
(The Blue Kimono), 1922
Oil on canvas
43 x 37 1/4 inches
Signed and dated upper left: Joseph DeCamp 1922

Ex-collections:

The artist

Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, New York

Private collection, Massachusetts, until the present

Exhibition:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, An Exhibition of Paintings by Pittsburgh and
Contemporary American Artists, December 4, 1922-January 6, 1923, no. 7 (as Blue Kimona)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 118th Annual Exhibition,
February 4-March 25, 1923, no. 270 (as The Blue Kimono)

New York, Butler Fine Arts Academy, Seventeenth Annual Exhibition of Selected
Paintings and Small Bronzes by American Artists, April 8-June 18, 1923, no. 57
(as The Blue Kimona)

Rochester, New York, Memorial Art Gallery, Summer Exhibition of Contemporary American
Paintings and Small Bronzes, July-September , 1923, no. 24 (as The Blue Mandarin Coat)

Boston, Massachusetts. St. Botolph Club, Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Joseph
Rodefer DeCamp: 1858-1923, January 7-26 (or 28), 1924, no. 4 (as The Blue Mandarin Coat)

Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Eighteenth Annual
Exhibition of Selected Paintings and Small Bronzes by American Artists: A Group of
Paintings by the Late Sir James J. Shannon, R.A., 1862-1923, and A Group of Paintings by
the Late Joseph R. DeCamp, April 20-June 30, 1924, no. 61 (as The Blue Mandarin Coat)

Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, The Work of Joseph DeCamp, opened October 1,
1924, no. 12 (as The Blue Mandarin Coat)

New York, Adelson Galleries, Joseph DeCamp: An American Impressionist,
November 3-December 16, 1995, no. 19

Literature:

American Magazine of Art, 14 (April, 1923): 187, no. 4, illustrated.

Gammell, R. H. Ives. Twilight of Painting: An Analysis of Recent Trends to Serve in a Period of Reconstruction. New York: Putnam, 1946, illustrated, pl. 63.

Buckley, Laurene. Joseph DeCamp: Master Painter of the Boston School, Munich and
New York: Prestel-Verlag, 1995, p. 132, illustrated, pl. 39.

The model for this painting is "Reddy" Pearson, who also appears in many other pictures by DeCamp including The Red Kimono (Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida) and The Window Blind (private collection).

Laurene Buckley writes: "Unlike in the earlier kimono pictures, DeCamp focused on just the upper torso of the model, celebrating perhaps as never before the penetration of light into the scene–through the garment and the figure itself–even detailing the light coming through her nostrils and ear lobes. Rose V. S. Berry, after describing the painting in detail, concluded: 'As the attention of the observer returns to the head in the interesting survey it is notable that the predominating keynote is the red-gold, the hair, the eyebrows, the lips, the yellow inside the coat, and more than all else the illuminating light which transforms the face into something indescribably fascinating.'" *

*Laurene Buckley, Joseph DeCamp: Master Painter of the Boston School (Munich and New York: Prestel-Verlag, 1995), p. 142.