LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

28.13 in. (71.44 cm.) (height) by 30.13 in. (76.52 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed Frederick F. Fursman (lr); inscribed with the artist's monogram and inscribed This painting is no. 6 and is the/property of the Frederick F. Fursman/Art Foundation, an Illinois Not-For/Profit Corporation, July 15, 1975 on the reverse; inscribed Mexican Woman Sewing on the stretcher and inscribed Mexican Mary on an old label affixed to the stretcher

Condition:

Frame rubbing. Scattered craquelure. Visible stretcher mark in the upper register. There is no visible restoration under UV light.

Provenance:

Private collection, Born in El Paso, Illinois, Fursman studied in Paris before settling in Chicago in 1909. Thereafter he taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and ran a summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan. This painting belongs to a group of important figural images created by Fursman on a visit to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in about 1928. His elevated viewpoint brings forms to the surface and highlights their firmly defined and simplified shapes, in turn expressing the quiet strength and dignity of his subject.