Who is Lilian Westcott Hale? Lilian Westcott Hale, daughter of a businessman and piano teacher, is remembered as one of America’s most successful Impressionist painters of the Boston School. She was born in 1881 in Hartford, Connecticut, and began her art education in 1900 at the School of Fine Arts in Boston. An important member…
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Adolphe Borie: Edith Pettit
Click For Enlarged Detail Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside Details Adolphe Borie (1877 – 1934) EDITH PETTIT signed Adolphe Borie (upper left) oil on canvas 16 by 20 inches, (40.6 by 50.8 cm)Source: Sotheby’s Link: http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/american-art-n09635/lot.94.html See More Adolphe Borie – Woodmere Art Museum Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
Childe Hassam: The Church at Gloucester
Childe Hassam,The Church at Gloucester, 1918
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 769
Robert Lewis Reid: Fleur de Lis
Who Is Robert Lewis Reid? American impressionist Robert Reid was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts in 1862. A painter of landscape, figures, still-life and murals, Reid was one of the founding members of the ‘Ten American Painters’, a group of Impressionists who rebelled against traditionalism in 1897. According to The Met, “Robert Reid was among the…
Lilian Westcott Hale: Portrait of a Woman
Lilian Westcott Hale’s mentor Edmund Tarbell exclaimed after seeing her drawings in the one-woman 1908 Boston show, “Your drawings are perfectly beautiful—as fine as anything could be. They belong with our old friends Leonardo, Holbein and Ingres, and are to me the finest modern drawings I have ever seen” (Philip Hale Papers, Box 53a, Folder…
James Jebusa Shannon: Jungle Tales (Contes de la Jungle) 1895
Who Is James Jebusa Shannon? James Jebusa Shannon was born in the United States and moved to England in 1878 where he trained at South Kensington. According to ArtUK, “Shannon enjoyed early success and, under the influence of Sargent, developed a bravura portrait style which made him one of the most sought after society portraitists…
Frederick Carl Frieseke: Woman with a Mirror (1911)
Click For Enlarged Image: Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside Sources Wikimedia Commons contributors, “File:Woman with a Mirror, Frieseke.jpg,” Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Woman_with_a_Mirror,_Frieseke.jpg&oldid=319818829 (accessed January 3, 2019). Wikipedia contributors, “Frederick Carl Frieseke,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Frederick_Carl_Frieseke4 (accessed November 28, 2021). Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
Frederick Carl Frieseke: Girl in Blue Arranging Flowers (c.1915)
Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874 – 1939) was an American Impressionist painter who spent most of his life as an expatriate in France. An influential member of the Giverny art colony, his paintings often concentrated on various effects of dappled sunlight in scenes of female subjects. wikipedia Click For Enlarged Detail: Slideshow best viewed At…
Lilian Westcott Hale: Black Eyed Susans
Charcoal Portraiture “Without Rival” A gifted draftsman, Lilian Westcott Hale was widely admired for her charcoal style, characterized by the use of fine, vertical strokes. Hale was a consummate portraitist, particularly in the medium of charcoal, with a contemporary critic writing, “in her drawing it is safe to say that she is without a rival…Mrs. Hale’s…
Lilian Westcott Hale: The Convalescent (1906)
Echoes of Japanese Prints – and Monet Lilian Westcott Hale, whose work is associated with the Boston School of American Impressionism, painted The Convalescent in 1906, shortly after completion of her formal art training at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. Typical of American Impressionists of the time, Hale chose an…
Lilla Cabot Perry: The Blue Kimono
Who Is Lilla Cabot Perry? Lilla Cabot Perry (1848 – 1933) was an American Impressionist artist and writer who published four volumes of original poetry and a translation of classical Greek verse. According to National Museum of Women in the Arts, “Although she had no formal art training until age 36, Lilla Cabot Perry became a professional painter…
Eric Sloane: Barn in the Valley
Click for Enlarged Image: Best viewed At Sunnyside To be auctioned November 8: Eric Sloane, Barn in the Valley.Oil on Masonite, 17-1/2 x 22-3/4 inches (44.5 x 57.8 cm), Signed, image source: MutualArt: https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Barn-in-the-Valley/9B9F8C2531AAE839 Thanks for visiting! 🙂 The End
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