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A.B. Chittenden, "Peonies" Signed Oil Painting
Alice Brown Chittenden

Lot 450: A.B. Chittenden, "Peonies" Signed Oil Painting

Est: $2,400 USD - $5,000 USDPassed
New Ideas AuctionsBrookings, OR, USMay 31, 2021

Item Overview

Description

A fine impressionist floral painting by American artist Alice Brown Chittenden (1859-1944). Considered the "Grand Dame" of Nineteenth Century San Francisco women artists, she was said to have "evinces a powerful genius" through the "magic of her brush. She was born in Brockport, New York, and moved to San Francisco at an early age. Chittenden began studying at the San Francisco School of Design in 1877, winning honors in drawing. In 1879, she won the school’s Avery Silver Medal in oil painting. Her life's work was a collection of botanicals depicting California wildflowers, for which she is renowned and received gold and silver medals at expositions. She would remain a life-long resident of San Francisco, eventually accepting a teaching post at the School of Design, where she taught for 40 years. Chittenden exhibited for over 60 years. She gathered many specimens herself locally in the San Francisco Bay Area but also during long trips via horseback and stagecoach to the Sierra Nevada Mountains or the deserts of Southern California. These studies were painted using oils on paper. She received assistance from her friend Alice Eastwood, who was the curator of botany at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Her works were so precise that they added not only to art, but also to the field of science! She also painted many portraits, often with pastels. She made portraits of James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill (1914) in the collection of the State Museum Resource Center, California State Parks; Robert Gordon Sproul, President of the University of California; and Judge John H. Boalt who donated funds to build the first Boalt Hall which houses the University of California School of Law at UC Berkeley

Dimensions

Frame 23" x 21" Canvas approx. 12" x 14"

Artist or Maker

Alice Brown Chittenden

Medium

Oil

Date

1920's ?

Condition Report

Excellent condition except for chipped building on the frame which was somewhat repaired with guilding paint

Exhibited

San Francisco Art Association; First Annual exhibition of the Lady Artists of San Francisco; Bohemian Club; Sketch Club; California State Fair, Sacramento; California Building, Her shows included Columbian Exposition, Chicago; California Building, Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, Portland; Societe des Artistes Francaise, Paris and California Building, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific International Exposition, Seattle.

Literature

Chittenden was named the leading flower painter of America in Kate Field's Washington newspaper in March 1895.

Provenance

Currently one of her paintings is listed on Ebay for $12,5000!

Notes

As educational opportunities were made more available in the 19th century, women artists became part of professional enterprises, including founding their own art associations. Artwork made by women was considered to be inferior, and to help overcome that stereotype women became "increasingly vocal and confident" in promoting women's work, and thus became part of the emerging image of the educated, modern and freer "New Woman". Artists then, "played crucial roles in representing the New Woman, both by drawing images of the icon and exemplifying this emerging type through their own lives." Chittenden exemplified the "New Woman" through her activism for social reform and the suffrage movement.

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Auction Details

Original Oil Paintings Hand signed lithos, Prints Sculptures

by
New Ideas Auctions
May 31, 2021, 01:00 PM PST

16340 Lower Harbor Rd #222, Brookings, OR, 97415, US

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