Original oil on canvas by Elliot Bouton Torrey of child. Torrey (1867-1949) was a Vermont born, New York then California artist. He settled in San Diego in 1923.
EDUCATION: Bowdoin College, 1890; studies in Florence and Paris
MEMBERSHIPS: Boston Art Club, Salmagundi Club; San Diego Fine Arts Society; Contemporary Artists of San Diego; Laguna Beach Art Association; Society of Independent Artists;
EXHIBITIONS: California State Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893; Boston Art Club, 1898, 1905; Klackner Galleries, NYC, 1907; Salon des Artistes Francais, Paris, 1910; Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1912; Art Institute of Chicago, 1912, 1914; Salmagundi Club, 1914; Society of Independent Artists, 1917; Macbeth Gallery, NYC, 1922 (solo); Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles, 1924; San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, 1927; Painters and Sculptors of Los Angeles, 1928-31; California State Fair, 1930; "Masters of San Diego Painting: Fifty Works From Fifty Years 1900-1950, Oceanside Museum of Art, 2008
COLLECTIONS: Art Institute of Chicago; Cleveland Museum of Art; San Diego Museum of Art; San Diego History Center; Monterey Museum of Art; Akron Art Institute; Portage Hotel, Akron, Ohio
Size of this wonderful painting is 18 1/4 x 15. Signed upper left. An evocative, superbly rendered work.
Craquelure but the paint is very stable. Else, good condition. Unframed.
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