elanya

This is an excerpt from the provenance information for a painting I was working on cataloguing today, with identifiable names edited:

Mr. Stephen C. M------ wrote: "At the 1939 Knoedler exhibition, Mrs. H----- came to the opening and talked to my wife. Mrs. Hassam was interested to find that Mrs. M------ was the owner of the painting. Mrs. H----- told Mrs. M------ that in her opinion she considered [This Painting] the finest picture which her husband, the late Mr. C----- H-----, had painted in his lifetime." (The preceeding paragraph is recorded in the archives of the [gallery that acquired it from Mrs. M------], as part of the history of this H----- Painting.)


...and this is how women get erased from the historical record! :/ I couldn't find any solid identifying information about the husband that would let me know it was the right guy and so track down his wife's name :( Even the provenance information we have from the gallery where it was purchased (in the 70's) by the people who donated it to us says Mrs. Stephen C M------ -_-