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WILLIAM JAMES, JR. Portrait of the Artist's Mother.
Oil on canvas, circa 1920. 686x572 mm; 27x22 1/2 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto.
Provenance: The Abraham Shuman Fund, by whom given to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Christie's, New York, September 8, 2004, lot 23; private collection, Massachusetts.
James (1882-1961) was the son of noted philosopher William James, Sr. and the nephew of the writer Henry James. The sitter of this portrait is Alice Howe Gibbons James whose biography "Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbons James" by Susan E. Gunter was published in 2009 and describes her life in the James family.
