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The Sprite
Details
GEORGE FULLER (1822-1884)
The Sprite
signed 'G. Fuller' (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 x 16 1/8 in. (50.8 x 41 cm.)
Painted circa 1880.
The Sprite
signed 'G. Fuller' (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 x 16 1/8 in. (50.8 x 41 cm.)
Painted circa 1880.
Provenance
John J. Enneking, Boston, Massachusetts, as of 1886 (possibly).
John F. Braun, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as of 1919.
Fairfield Galleries.
With Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles, California.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Keeler, Los Angeles, California, as of 1937.
Mary D. Keeler, Los Angeles, California, by descent from the above.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, bequest from the above, 1940.
John F. Braun, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as of 1919.
Fairfield Galleries.
With Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles, California.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Keeler, Los Angeles, California, as of 1937.
Mary D. Keeler, Los Angeles, California, by descent from the above.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, bequest from the above, 1940.
Literature
Fuller: His Life and Works, p. 93, as Ideal Figure, (possibly).
Homer and Robb, "Paintings by George Fuller", pp. 290 & 292, fig. 7.
Exhibition catalogue, Loan Exhibition of International Art, Los Angeles, California, 1937, p. 34, no. 192, illustrated.
S.L. Burns, "The Poetic Mode in American Painting: George Fuller and Thomas Dewing", Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, 1979, pp. 122, 124-5.
I.L. Fort and M. Quick, American Art: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection, Los Angeles, California, 1991, pp. 189-190, illustrated.
Homer and Robb, "Paintings by George Fuller", pp. 290 & 292, fig. 7.
Exhibition catalogue, Loan Exhibition of International Art, Los Angeles, California, 1937, p. 34, no. 192, illustrated.
S.L. Burns, "The Poetic Mode in American Painting: George Fuller and Thomas Dewing", Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, 1979, pp. 122, 124-5.
I.L. Fort and M. Quick, American Art: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection, Los Angeles, California, 1991, pp. 189-190, illustrated.
Exhibited
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Art Association, Loan Exhibition of International Art, 1937, no. 192.
Special notice
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