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Francis Henry Richardson (1859-1934). "Girl in Blue". browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art:Paintings:Oil:N. America:American: Pre 1910: item # 883586 Please refer to our stock # 2463 when inquiring.
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| Oil on canvas, 26 x 32 inches, 36 x 42 framed, signed l.r. and also inscribed "Girl in Blue"/F.H. Richardson/Ipswich,Mass." verso. The work was painted at "Meadowview", the Ipswich, Massachusetts home that Ralph Adams Cram designed for Richardson c. 1902. It likely depicts the artist's wife. Richardson belonged to that group of New England artists, including Arthur Wesley Dow, Childe Hassam and Willard Metcalf, who studied together in Paris in the 1880's at the Academie Julian. Richardson exhibited at the Paris Salons of 1889, 1890 and 1894-99. It is interesting to note that he was in Paris the same year(1891) that Whistler's "Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother" was acquired by the Musee du Luxembourg. He undoubtedly saw the already famous work and possibly adopted some the unusual characteristics of that painting (the seated profile pose, the attention of the sitter engaged elsewhere) for this composition. Returning to this country, Dow and Richardson, along with Henry Kenyon, settled in Ipswich. Richardson's American exhibition venues included the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery and the Detroit Museum of Art. Locally, he exhibited frequently at the Gloucester Society of Artists, the North Shore Art Association and the Boston Art Club. (Much of the biographical information above is from the excellent catalogue "The Ipswich Painters at Home and Abroad", 1993, Cape Ann Historical Museum). | ||
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