AW836: Agnes Richmond Modernist River Side Landscape Oil on Canvas Painting Circa 1940

Agnes Richmond (American, 1870 - 1964) Modernist River Side Landscape Oil on Canvas Painting Circa 1940

Dimensions: Sight 15" x 19"; Frame 16 5/8" x 30 7/8"

Comments: Agnes Richmond was born in Alton, Illinois in 1870. She specialized in portraits of women in a variety of social strata.  Her landscape backgrounds, both urban and rural, reflected their circumstances.  Her portraits often had bright colors and showcased the fashions of the time period. She studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts before moving to New York in 1888. She studied at the Art Students League with John Twachtman, Walter Appleton Clark and Kenyon Cox, and from 1910 to 1914, she taught at the League. She spent most of her life in Brooklyn excepting summers in Mountainville, New York. She exhibited widely including the 1915 Panama- Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.