A portrait of an unidentified woman of the Taos Pueblo draped in a mulit-color shawl and holding a sleeping infant. The painting is oil on board and is inscribed at lower right: "D. E. Brett/Taos/1928." On the verso is an inscribed title, "The Eternal Mother," and a paper exhibition label from the Imperial Gallery of Art, London, with inscribed title: "The Eternal Mother." A plate mounted on the front of the frame gives a second title: "Madonna in Taos/The Honorable Dorothy Eugenie Brett/English/Born 1883."
Description:
Dorothy Brett, British-American painter. Brett was born in England and studied at the Slade School of Art and University College, London. In London, she was close friends with notable authors such as Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence. In 1924, Brett went to Taos, New Mexico, with Lawrence and his wife Frieda von Richthofen Lawrence to visit Mabel Dodge Luhan. She settled there permanently and became a United States citizen in 1938. Known as "Brett" by friends and family, she was deaf for the majority of her life. Brett died in Taos in 1977., Gift of Fania Marinoff Van Vechten, 1970., and Title devised by cataloger.
The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-32b
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by curator., CtY-BR, Date of publication assigned by cataloger., Possibly part of a plate from: Rowlandson, T. Outlines of figures & landscapes. [London] : Publish'd by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly ..., [1790-92]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Riviere & Son Binding.
Two watercolor drawings made in and around the Central Utah Relocation Center near Delta, Utah, by Japanese prisoners of war. The first is an untitled landscape view of the Topaz Valley, the site of the center; it measures 28 x 39 cm and is signed at the lower left corner "S. Mikami." The second is a scene within the camp and features residential cabins, pathways, and unidentified figures at either sunrise or sunset. It is signed at the lower right with Japanese characters and a red chop mark, measures 27 x 38 cm, and is inscribed in pencil on the reverse in an unidentified hand: “Delta, Utah / Japanese / Relocation / Camp / 19.”
Description:
Purchased from William Reese Company (PBA Galleries sale, San Francisco, 2013 July 11, lot 253) on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2013.
Subject (Geographic):
Sevier Desert (Utah)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Central Utah Relocation Center--Pictorial works and Mikami, Charles Erabu,--1902-1998
Subject (Topic):
Artists--United States, Concentration camps--United States--Pictorial works, and Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-32a
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by curator., CtY-BR, Date of publication assigned by cataloger., Possibly part of a plate from: Rowlandson, T. Outlines of figures & landscapes. [London] : Publish'd by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly ..., [1790-92]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Riviere & Son Binding.
Date assigned by curator., Design attributed to Rowlandson by curator., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Date assigned by curator., For the original drawing by Rowlandson, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 422., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Title supplied by cataloger, based on title given by Grego for the original drawing.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 1 of 2) | Folder I-26
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Date assigned by cataloger., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Riviere & Son Binding.