Title
(Pug)
Artist
Year
c. 1920
Technique
woodcut
Image Size
3 3/4 x 4 11/16" image size
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
not stated
Annotations
Reference
Paper
cream laid
State
Publisher
Inventory ID
4269
Price
SOLD
Description
Member of a German immigrant family who were forced to leave Tennessee after the Civil War and then settled in California. After returning from art studies in Paris, she painted portraits of prominent people like Hearst and Stanford. She returned to Europe and was closely associated with Rosa Bonheur for several years. English nobility commissioned animal paintings from her and in the late 1890s she was invited to an estate in Hungary. The outbreak of WWI surprised her in Algiers, and expelled by the French, she had to leave behind her belongings and many of her paintings. Specialty: animal portraiture. Sources: WW13; Hughes, Artists of California, 243-344; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 366-67. From the collection of Danish critic and author Georg Bröchner, who wrote for the British art magazine "The Studio" in the early 20th century.