Reclining woman in bed, 1909

Gouache and pencil on paper

13 x 17 ¼ inches unframed

Signed and dated, lower right

Work has been faded by previous wooden frame.

Abraham Archibald Anderson (1847–1940) was active and lived in New York, Wyoming, New Jersey. Abraham Anderson is known for Portrait-figure, landscape and floral painting.

An artist whose multi-faceted activities included national park administration, city politics and aviation, Abraham Anderson was primarily based in New York City where he earned a reputation primarily for his portrait painting. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design beginning 1873. As part ot his art training, he spent much time between 1873 and 1883 in Paris where he was a student of Leon Bonnat, Raphael Collin, Fernand Cormon and Auguste Rodin.

Also during the 1870s, he made his first trip to Wyoming, which led to him returning to a ranch he purchased there for every summer for the rest of his life and to his being appointed in 1902 by President Theodore Roosevelt as forest superintendent for seven years. From this job, he earned the title of "Colonel".