Will Howe Foote (1874-1965)

Young Italian Girl

Details

Will Howe Foote (1874-1965)
Young Italian Girl
oil on canvas
24 x 20in. (61.9 x 51.4cm.)

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Freeman Foote, the artist's son, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, California
Spanierman Gallery, New York

Literature

W. Forbes, 'Will Howe Foote', The Arts, August-September, 1921, p.6

Exhibited

New York, National Academy of Design, 1914
San Francisco, California, Panama Pacific Exhibition, 1915

Lot Essay

Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1874, Foote studied at the Art Institute of Chicago where he met the Impressionist painter Frederick Frieseke. After studing in Paris in the late 1890s, Foote became a member of the Old Lyme artist colony in Connecticut, and the National Academy of Design in New York. Young Italian Girl was executed in 1914.