Walter Launt Palmer (1854-1932)

Winter Study

细节

Walter Launt Palmer (1854-1932)
Winter Study
signed 'W.L. Palmer' lower right
pastel on paper
12½ x 16½in. (31.7 x 41.9cm.)

来源

By descent in the artist's family
Anne Palmer Wilkes

出版

M. Mann and A. Mann, Walter Launt Palmer, Poetic Reality, Exton, Pennsylvania, 1984, p. 170, no. 1058, illus.

展览

New York, National Academy of Design, 1894, no. 333 (possibly)

拍品专文

Walter Launt Palmer began experimenting with the medium of pastel around 1882 and by the mid-1880s was working alongside William Merritt Chase and Robert Blum, two of the most proficient artists working in the medium. Palmer exhibited his pastels regularly and in 1888, a reviewer for the New York Sun wrote "two winter landscapes which are among the best things not in this exhibition only, but in the whole work of the year...here truth is as complete as it could be on canvas...".