Object Record
Images
Metadata
Collection |
Tri-Kappa |
Catalog Number |
1999.001.070 |
Title |
Across the Valley |
Artist |
Hartrath, Lucie |
Object Name |
painting |
Date |
1944 |
Description |
Original oil painting depicting a wooded valley. ACROSS THE VALLEY Hoosier Salon 1945 Lucie Hartrath (1868-1962) Oil, 36 X 36 |
Provenance |
Purchased from the Hoosier Salon. Most of Hartrath's later Brown County painting was done from a spot which the Colony called "Lucie's Hill" and from this spot she painted "Across the Valley". In landscape, what appealed to her most strongly was the intimate quality, the human touch that may be given by a winding road, a straggling fence, a little white cabin all summed up in a little figure. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the only child of "cultural" parents, she studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and then went abroad for further study by Courtois and Rixens in Paris and Jank in Munich. Her work was chosen for exhibition in the Salons of Paris, Berlin, Cologne and Zurich as well as in the Art Institute of Chicago for both the American artists and Chicago artists. Her work won several awards - Butler and Rosenwald Purchase Prizes, Young Fortnightly Prize, Clyde Carr Landscape Prize and fourteen awards at the Hoosier Salon from 1925 through 1940. A number of her paintings were purchased for the Governor's Mansion, Springfield, Illinois. |
Medium |
oil on canvas |
Dimensions |
H-35.5 W-35.5 inches |
Catalog date |
1999-12-13 |