Abbott Fuller Graves American, 1859-1936 Summer Flowers, circa 1927 Signed Abbott Graves ANA (lr) Oil on canvas 40 x 50 inches Provenance: Margaret Woodbury Strong, Rochester NY and Kennebunkport, ME The National Museum of Play at the Strong, Rochester, NY, acc. no. 76.5368 Exhibited: New York, National Academy of Design, 1927, no. 62 Kennebunkport, ME, Kennebunkport Historical Society, Abbott Graves: A Fresh Look at the Artist, Jun. 4-Aug. 30, 2010 Celebrated for his flower paintings from his earliest years painting in Boston, Abbott Fuller Graves worked as a youth at a local greenhouse where, while he made arrangements for special events, he also developed a love of flowers. Around 1877, he began painting blossoms, first exhibiting a painting of roses at the Boston Art Club. The self-taught painter soon achieved a reputation for his floral subjects. Two trips to study in Paris introduced Graves first to the more traditional techniques taught in the French academies and later to the freer brushstroke and brighter palette of the Impressionists. The present work depicts a wagon artfully heaped with dahlias, radiant in the summer sun. The composition was undoubtedly painted in Kennebunkport, Maine, where Graves had a home and where he spent most summers. Kennebunkport was also the summer residence of one of his most significant patrons, Margaret Woodbury Strong, who was passionate both about collecting and flower arranging, and who eventually owned twenty-three paintings and one drawing by the artist. It is not clear whether she acquired them directly from the artist or his family, or from Vose Galleries in Boston, which showed Graves's paintings regularly and even mounted a memorial exhibition upon his death in 1936. C Property of a New York Collector
Frame rubbing. There are two touches of inpaint in the sky at the upper center left. There is no further restoration visible under UV light.
Abbott Fuller Graves American, 1859-1936 Summer Flowers, circa 1927 Signed Abbott Graves ANA (lr) Oil on canvas 40 x 50 inches Provenance: Margaret Woodbury Strong, Rochester NY and Kennebunkport, ME The National Museum of Play at the Strong, Rochester, NY, acc. no. 76.5368 Exhibited: New York, National Academy of Design, 1927, no. 62 Kennebunkport, ME, Kennebunkport Historical Society, Abbott Graves: A Fresh Look at the Artist, Jun. 4-Aug. 30, 2010 Celebrated for his flower paintings from his earliest years painting in Boston, Abbott Fuller Graves worked as a youth at a local greenhouse where, while he made arrangements for special events, he also developed a love of flowers. Around 1877, he began painting blossoms, first exhibiting a painting of roses at the Boston Art Club. The self-taught painter soon achieved a reputation for his floral subjects. Two trips to study in Paris introduced Graves first to the more traditional techniques taught in the French academies and later to the freer brushstroke and brighter palette of the Impressionists. The present work depicts a wagon artfully heaped with dahlias, radiant in the summer sun. The composition was undoubtedly painted in Kennebunkport, Maine, where Graves had a home and where he spent most summers. Kennebunkport was also the summer residence of one of his most significant patrons, Margaret Woodbury Strong, who was passionate both about collecting and flower arranging, and who eventually owned twenty-three paintings and one drawing by the artist. It is not clear whether she acquired them directly from the artist or his family, or from Vose Galleries in Boston, which showed Graves's paintings regularly and even mounted a memorial exhibition upon his death in 1936. C Property of a New York Collector
Frame rubbing. There are two touches of inpaint in the sky at the upper center left. There is no further restoration visible under UV light.
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