Canvas Print: A Pretty Girl In The West, circa 1889

Description: Proudly made in the USA, this canvas print arrives ready to hang. All of our canvas prints are gallery-wrapped, i.e. the canvas image is hand-stretched over a sturdy wood frame and stapled on rear for permanent mounting. The heavy-duty frame is made with 1.5-inch wood cross bars throughout, creating a striking three-dimensional piece of artwork.About this image...Title: A Pretty Girl In The West, circa 1889Summary: Drawing shows a young woman sitting on a hammock, playing a guitar, and a man sitting on the outer wall of a covered porch.Notes: Caption label from exhibit Drawn to Purpose Golden Age of Illustration: Romance and Courtship in the American West. This illustration accompanies an essay by Mary Hallock Foote in which she observes that eastern girls coming west attract admirers and risk encouraging romantic expectations that neither party can meet. She creates an atmosphere of restraint by positioning the young woman and man far apart and making little eye contact. When Foote married a mining engineer, she left a budding career on the East Coast, but continued illustrating and writing under often challenging conditions.|Exhibited: "The Art of the American Guitar" at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 200 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, Virginia 23220, October 9, 2022-January 29, 2023.Creator: Foote, Mary Hallock, 1847-1938, artistOriginal Date: 1889?Subject: Couples--1880-1890Subject: Courtship--1880-1890Subject: Frontier & pioneer life--1880-1890Subject: Guitars--1880-1890Subject: Hammocks (Furniture)--1880-1890Subject: Porches--1880-1890Subject: West (U.S.)Place: United States--West Collection: Cabinet of American Illustration. The Cabinet of American Illustration contains original drawings by American book, magazine, and newspaper illustrators, made primarily between 1880 and 1910. It includes illustrations for magazines, novels, and children’s books; cartoons; cover designs; and sketches for posters. More than two hundred artists are represented, including Charles Dana Gibson, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Oliver Herford, and Jessie Wilcox Smith. The collection was the brainchild of William Patten, art editor for Harper’s Magazine during the 1880s and 1890s, who established the Cabinet of American Illustration in 1932, in order to create a national collection of original works of art documenting what he and others considered the golden age of American illustration that took place from the 1880s through the 1920s. Donations by artists, publishers, and their families have fostered the growth of the collection.The shipping charge for ClassicPix canvas prints is $9.95 USD for the first print and $4.00 USD for each additional print. All canvas prints are shipped via UPS Ground service and are carefully packed inside a sturdy box for maximum protection.

Price: 43.39 USD

Location: Lakewood, OH

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