Edna Crompton
Writer Fannie Hurst in a Floral Pattern Dress Bathed in Warm Light, 1927
Oil on Canvas
21 7/10 × 16 3/4 × 1 in / 55.1 × 42.5 × 2.5 cm
$ 20,000.00
Edna Crompton was an in-demand and prolific for-hire female illustrator\\u002Fartist for some of the most prestigious newsstand magazines of the day. She regularly did covers for the Saturday Evening Post,...
Edna Crompton was an in-demand and prolific for-hire female illustrator\\u002Fartist for some of the most prestigious newsstand magazines of the day. She regularly did covers for the Saturday Evening Post, Redbook, Colliers and Judge to name a few. Crompton presents Fannie Hurst - the nation’s highest-paid short story writer and advocates for suffrage and race relations - as a confidently attractive young woman bathed in warm light. Signed upper right. Best Viewed with a top gallery light to avoid highlights from the glossy varnish.