Lily Harmon
Mid Century Portrait of Actress Paula Laurence - Wife of Joseph Hirshhorn, 1955
Oil and Graphite on Canvas
19 3/4 × 15 3/4 × 1 in / 50.2 × 40 × 2.5 cm
$ 7,500.00
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Quick and loose expressionist portrait of stage and screen actress Paula Laurence Portrait of Paula Laurence (1916-2005). Oil and graphite on linen. Signed top right. Exhibited: 'Lily Harmon: Fifty Years...
Quick and loose expressionist portrait of stage and screen actress Paula Laurence
Portrait
of Paula Laurence (1916-2005). Oil and graphite on linen. Signed top
right. Exhibited: "Lily Harmon: Fifty Years of Painting, A Retrospective
Exhibition," Wichita Art Museum, December 4, 1982-January 9, 1983."
Literature: Howard E. Wooden, 'Lily Harmon, Fifty Years of Painting,"
1983, pp. 16 (illustrated) and 37. Note: Paula Laurence was an actress
and singer, who worked with the like of Orson Welles, Ethel Mermon, and
Cole Porter on and off Broadway. Regionally she acted at the Westport
Country Playhouse run by her husband, producer and director Charles
Bowden, who produced many of Tennessee Williams’ plays. After Williams'
death the Bowdens became the guardians of the playwright's
institutionalized sister, Rose Williams. From a Stamford, CT collection
Dimensions: 20" h x 16". Frame: 26" h x 22" w. - She is in the
collection of the Smithsonian American Art, Wichita Art Museum . Since
then her works have been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco, The Jewish Museum and The Joseph Hirshhorn Museum
Lily Harmon," Smithsonian American Art Museum Renwick Gallery website. Accessed Mar. 30, 2017. br "Lily Harmon, 85, Portraitist and Book Illustrator," New York Times (14 Feb. 1998). Retrieved 29 March 2017. br Frank Kleinholz papers, 1930-1980. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. br LePere, Gene Hirshhorn. Little Man in a Big Hurry: The Life of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Uranium King and Art Collector (Vantage Press, 2009). - Wikipedia
Portrait
of Paula Laurence (1916-2005). Oil and graphite on linen. Signed top
right. Exhibited: "Lily Harmon: Fifty Years of Painting, A Retrospective
Exhibition," Wichita Art Museum, December 4, 1982-January 9, 1983."
Literature: Howard E. Wooden, 'Lily Harmon, Fifty Years of Painting,"
1983, pp. 16 (illustrated) and 37. Note: Paula Laurence was an actress
and singer, who worked with the like of Orson Welles, Ethel Mermon, and
Cole Porter on and off Broadway. Regionally she acted at the Westport
Country Playhouse run by her husband, producer and director Charles
Bowden, who produced many of Tennessee Williams’ plays. After Williams'
death the Bowdens became the guardians of the playwright's
institutionalized sister, Rose Williams. From a Stamford, CT collection
Dimensions: 20" h x 16". Frame: 26" h x 22" w. - She is in the
collection of the Smithsonian American Art, Wichita Art Museum . Since
then her works have been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco, The Jewish Museum and The Joseph Hirshhorn Museum
Lily Harmon," Smithsonian American Art Museum Renwick Gallery website. Accessed Mar. 30, 2017. br "Lily Harmon, 85, Portraitist and Book Illustrator," New York Times (14 Feb. 1998). Retrieved 29 March 2017. br Frank Kleinholz papers, 1930-1980. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. br LePere, Gene Hirshhorn. Little Man in a Big Hurry: The Life of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Uranium King and Art Collector (Vantage Press, 2009). - Wikipedia