“AT THE OPERA”
Oil on Canvas
Signed Lower Right
Estate Stamp Verso
Provenance: Estate of the artist; a New York estate.
Book References : 23
Museums : Pennsylvania Academy or Fine Art; Baltimore Museum of
Art;
Los
Angeles County Museum of Art; St. Paul Art Institute
Image Size : 24.75” x 30” / Framed Size 33" x 38"
SOLD
#6677
Everett Lloyd BRYANT
(1864-1945)
Birth place: Galion, OH
Death place: Los Angeles, CA
Addresses: Hendrecks, PA, 1908-09;
Baltimore, MD, 1914-20; Los Angeles, CA/Wilmer, CA, from 1930s
Profession: Painter, muralist
Studied: with Blanc and Couture in
Paris; Herkomer, in London; Pennsylvania Academy or Fine Art, with
Anshutz, Chase, Breckenridge, 1901-04
Exhibited: SNBA, 1895; Pennsylvania
Academy or Fine Art,, frequently, 1904-24; Art Institute of Chicago;
Pan.-Pac. Exposition, San Francisco 1915 (silver medal); Corcoran
Gallery, 1916-23; Arlington Galleries, NYC, 1918; Los Angeles Art
Association, 1934 (merit award); Golden Gate Exhibition, 1939;
California Watercolor Society, 1939; Baltimore Museum of Art, 1946
(memorial); Society of Independent Artists
Member: Pennsylvania Academy or Fine
Art, Baltimore Watercolor Society; Phiiladelphia Watercolor
Club; California Watercolor Society; Washington County Museum of Art
Work: Pennsylvania Academy or Fine
Art; Baltimore Museum of Art; St. Paul Art Institute; Los Angeles
County Museum of Art
Comments: Preferred media:
watercolor, oil. While living in Baltimore, he and his wife spent
summers painting in Southern Maryland, Maine and New Hampshire. He
moved to California in 1930, taking sketching trips into Nevada and
Arizona. His wife Maude Drein Bryant was also an artist.
Sources: Who’s Who 1949; Hughes, Artists in California, 1977-78;
Danly, Light, Air, and Color, 30; Fink, American Art at
the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 326
NOTE :
This painting is from the estate of
Everett Lloyd Bryant. The stretcher bore no title. Bryant painted a
number of such scenes –
at balls, the ballet, costume parties.
Each bore a
quite simple name. As such, we
are taking the liberty of naming this painting simply,
as he might have : “AT THE
OPERA”.
We do not know which performance, and
should someone be more versed in both opera and operetta,
we would appreciate any information
that might help us to tie this down more specifically.
The backdrop setting seems to represent
a Mediterranean grotto.
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