Sensation (art exhibition) was over "Myra", an image of the murderer Myra Hindley by Marcus Harvey. The Mothers Against Murder and Aggression protest group picketed the show, accompanied by Winnie Johnson, the mother of one of Hindley's victims. They asked for the portrait, which is made up of hundreds of copies of a child's handprint, to be excluded to protect Johnson's feelings. Along with supporters she picketed the show's first day. Myra Hindley sent a letter from jail suggesting that her portrait be removed from the exhibition, reasoning that such action was necessary because the work was "a sole disregard not only for
Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Wade then was included in "Made in America: Ten Centuries of American Art" a traveling exhibition of American paintings. Between 1995 and 1996 the exhibition visited four major American Museums: the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in Minnesota, Saint Louis Art Museum in Missouri, Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, and Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA, in addition to a stop at the Nelson-Atkins Museum. Most recently, "Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Wade" was included in a 1997 exhibition featuring paintings from Sargent’s early career at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA. After the 1908 death of the sitter, Francis