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A Bride
1921
Label:
Abbott Thayer painted this study for a large society portrait of Alice Maude Allen Atwater of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He sketched her from life and focused on the details of her face and her general pose. But in the finished version, which he made in his studio, he lavished attention on the bride's gown of Japanese gold cloth with a Belgian rose-point lace bodice. Years later the dress remained in his mind, but when asked who the bride was, he had trouble remembering. (Prelinger, American Impressionism: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2000)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of John Gellatly
Abbott Thayer painted this study for a large society portrait of Alice Maude Allen Atwater of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He sketched her from life and focused on the details of her face and her general pose. But in the finished version, which he made in his studio, he lavished attention on the bride's gown of Japanese gold cloth with a Belgian rose-point lace bodice. Years later the dress remained in his mind, but when asked who the bride was, he had trouble remembering. (Prelinger, American Impressionism: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2000)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of John Gellatly
- Size:
- 21 x 17 1/8 in. (53.3 x 43.4 cm.)
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- License:
- Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
- For more:
- http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=23…
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