Painting

Title:

Frances Perry Dudley

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

2020.013.01

Creator:

Geffcken, Walter (1872-1950)Artist

Place of Origin:

Munich, Germany

Date:

1895

Description:

Portrait of Frances Perry Dudley (1861-1953) of Exeter, NH, by Walter Geffcken (1872-1950), 1895. Oil on canvas. Three-quarter length portrait of a seated woman with smooth black hair, wearing green and black dress; red/pink flowers in her lap; green floral drapery on left. Signed "W. GEFFCKEN / MUNCHEN 1895", upper right. Gilded frame.

Material:

Textile

Dimensions:

H-38 W-31 inches

Provenance:

Frances Fisk Perry (1861-1953) was the daughter of William Gilman and Lucretia Morse (Fisk) Perry of Exeter, NH. She married teacher and author, Albertus True Dudley (1866-1955), July 2, 1890, in Exeter. Frances Fisk Perry Dudley, of Boston and Exeter, was educated as an artist and was a founder of the New Hampshire Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women. The portrait was painted in Munich, Germany, by Walter Geffcken, while Frances and Albertus Dudley were touring Europe in 1895-96.

A German Impressionist painter, Walter Geffcken was born in Hamburg in 1872. From 1889-91, he was a student at the Heinrich Knirr School of Art in Munich. From 1891-94, he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. He then studied art in Italy. He was active in Munich in 1905, provided input for the Munich magazine "Youth", and charged the glass Palace in Munich. Geffcken was a member of the "Luitpold group" in Munich, the National Association of Visual Artists of Germany, the Munich Artists' Association, and the Association of Artists of Bavaria. He died at Kreuth/Rosenheim in 1950.

Credit Line:

Gift of Anne Shepard Bullis

People:

Dudley, Frances P. (1861-1953)

Subjects:

Dudley, Frances Perry