HARRY HUMPHREY MOORE (1844–1926) Japanese Girl Promenading, 1881 Oil to the timber panel, 10 eight/8 x six step 1/cuatro for the
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Signed, dated, and you may inscribed (from the all the way down best): H. Humphrey Moore. 81; (on paper term, on the rear): No. 41 / Japanese Woman Promenading
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Finalized, old, and you can inscribed (in the lower best): H. Humphrey Moore. 81; (in writing identity, on the rear): No. 41 / Japanese Lady Promenading
Ex boyfriend COLL.: the newest singer, up to 1926; to his girlfriend, Maria Moore, 1926; so you can individual collection, Connecticut, regarding 1950, before the present
Moore, who was within the Japan throughout 1880–81, turned one of the first American performers to go to brand new “Home of one’s Rising Sunlight,” preceded simply of the illustrator, William Heime, exactly who went here in the 1851 with the Japanese expedition out of Commodore Matthew C. Perry; Edward Kern, a good topographical musician and you can explorer who mapped the japanese coast in 1855; together with Boston landscapist, Winckleworth Allan Gay, a citizen regarding Japan from 1877 so you can 1880. Way more specifically, just like the William H. Gerdts features mentioned, Moore are the newest “earliest Western artist to really address the appearance and you may mores off the japanese anybody” (William H. Gerdts, Western Artists in the Japan, 1859–1925, exhib. cat. [New york: Hollis Taggart Art galleries, 1996], p. 5). Read More
