(his sale, Sotheby’s‘ London, 15 July 1946, no. 2216); (The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia
Despite its meticulous draftsmanship and precise detail, Lane’s work is far more than a simple inventory of harbor activity. The diminutive figures and carefully rendered vessels remain secondary to the vast expanse of sky, where shimmering light creates a tranquil, idyllic mood.
Britain, London; Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: British and Modern French Schools, Philadelphia
Painted in August 1907, Forty-two Kids depicts a band of nude and partially clothed boys engaged in a variety of antics—swimming, diving, sunbathing, smoking, and possibly urinating—on and near a dilapidated wharf jutting out over New York City’s East River. A sharp observer of urban life, George Bellows has sketched his streetwise subjects with characteristic vigor and economy of means, and he has carefully rendered their varied ethnic backgrounds.
1908, no. 167. 103rd Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Who is this elegant lady? A noblewoman surely, and most likely a member of the court of Cosimo I de‘ Medici, Duke of Florence in the mid-sixteenth century.
Philadelphia, 1916: unpaginated, repro. 1923 Paintings in the Collection of Joseph
Philadelphia and New York, 1942: pl. 338. 1943 Swarzenski, Georg.
Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Philadelphia
The Detroit Institute of Arts; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of
The artist probably was born in Fabriano, in the Marches; indeed, he signed his name on various occasions as Allegritus de Fabriano.
Johnson collection in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the D’Abernon Madonna, the
works from the Eddleman and Fisher collections at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia
