HAYES, Patrick Cardinal
Description:
Half-length, wearing a white fur cape, over a scarlet robe, his right hand fingering his pectoral cross. Oil on canvas, signed and dated upper right ‘A. Muller-Ury 1937.’
Location:
Cardinal Hayes Memorial High School, 153rd Street at Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York 10451.
Exhibition:
WILDENSTEIN & CO., INC., 19, East 64th Street, New York, April 20 – May 4, 1937, No. 6.
Bibliography:
New York Mirror, April 21, 1937
New York Herald Tribune, Monday, September 22, 1941. (Presentation photograph)
Patrick Hayes was born on November 20, 1867. He graduated in 1897 from the Catholic University in Washington, and went to Rome in 1904 where in 1907 he became the domestic relate to Pope Pius X. On October 28, 1914 he was created auxiliary bishop of New York, and on November 24, 1917 became Catholic Chaplain to the U.S. Army and Navy. He was elevated to the Cardinalate on May 24, 1924. He died in New York on September 4, 1938.
Bibliography: John Bernard Kelly, Cardinal Hayes: One of Ourselves, 1940
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It is not known if Hayes sat again to Muller-Ury at the start of 1937, or whether this version of the portrait was painted by him at the same time as, or from photographs of, his 1924 masterpiece, for inclusion in the exhibition at Wildenstein. It is almost a variant of the 1924 picture, but Hayes is depicted slightly rounder in the face and softer in expression, the chain of the pectoral cross is knotted higher, and the left hand is not visible.
