Peonies was shown at the Pennsylvania Academy’s 1896-1897 exhibition, alongside three figure works, and exemplifies the delicacy of palette and brushwork that the artist infused into his depictions of his favorite bloom. In addition to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, examples of Lockwood’s still life arrangements with peonies are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, having been purchased in 1911 and 1914, respectively.

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Provenance:

William Vareika Fine Arts, Newport, Rhode Island

To private collection, San Diego, California, July 1988 to present

Labels:

1. (top stretcher) Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / Sixty-Sixth Annual Exhibition, 1896-1897 / Title: Peonies / Artist: Wilton Lockwood / Address: 280 Boylston St. / Return Address: 280 Boylston St., Boston / By Invitation
2. (business card on crossbar, with parts handwritten) Society American Artists / (Title) “Peonies” / (Artist) Wilton Lockwood / 280 Boylston Street / Boston, Mass.

Exhibitions:

Sixty-Sixth Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, December 21, 1896 – February 22, 1897, no. 199 Peonies