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Dorothy Stanley Emmons (1891-1961). "Thru the Willows". browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art:Paintings:Oil:N. America:American: Pre 1930: item # 1123076 Please refer to our stock # 2464 when inquiring.
Raymond Agler Fine Arts 16 Pleasant Street Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930 978-281-5048 $4,750. |
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| Oil on canvas, 14 x 13.75 inches, 20.5 x 18.5 framed, signed lower left, exhibition labels from Boston Art Club, Grace Horne Gallery and Pennsylvania Academy verso. Born to the sister of the inventors of the Stanley Steamer automobile, Chansonetta Stanley Emmons, Dorothy worked closely with her now famous photographer mother, who travelled the country documenting the difficult life of the rural poor with her camera. Her father, James Emmons, died in 1898 when Dorothy was seven and, from that point on, mother and daughter were supported by her mother's millionaire brothers, who bought them a home in Newton, Mass. Dorothy studied at various times with William Preston Phelps, Charles Woodbury, Aldro Hibbard and George Loftus Noyes, whose influence is most evident in the present work. The view depicted in the painting is of the Samuel Gridley Howe Building tower on the campus of the Perkins Institute for the Blind in nearby Watertown. It is supposed that her mother's increasing deafness kept Dorothy occupied assisting with lectures, demonstrations etc., leaving little time for exercising her own obviously considerable painting talents. The work descended in the estate of Carnell Bailey, a North Carolina beauty salon owner, who died in 2008. | ||
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