Painting - Dancers (or untitled?)

Art

Bonnet House Museum & Gardens

Giclee on Passport external hard drive

Entry/Object ID

1985.FB.125

Description

Oil painting on canvas of elegant men and women dancing, a close view. At object right is a couple with arms around each other shown from the knees up. Man has brown wavy hair, red face. He wears a black suit with white shirt, black tie. Woman facing to the object right wears a white sleeveless gown with v back. She has tan flesh, yellow shoulder length hair. Behind and to the object left of this couple can be seen a woman's face leaning against a man in a black suit, white shirt, orange skin. Floor is yellow. On wooden stretcher. Varnished. In gilt and white wooden and plaster frame (not original frame?) Frame has relief scroll decorations; front has ogee molding; sides ar fascia, scotia, fascia moldings. Artist: FCB. Untitled. On sticker on back of stretcher - white paper with black, red printing: NO. 13349/PICTURE//. On sticker on back white with red border: (?)//. Written in pencil on back of stretcher:BOX 1/38/BOX (?)//. On back of frame written in crayon and pencil: B2 P4 (?)/ BARTLETT (?)/28X(?)X14(?)NAT(?)L TONE...46766/2(?) P/12/BOX 2/A/X/(?)+5/1/16 P/(?)B...On white sticker with red border: FRONT GALLERY 18 WEST WALL//. On white sticker with red border: CHANG TEMPLE/CANTON (scratched out)//. On white sticker with red border: (?) BIRDS//. Collected at artist's studio in Beverly, Mass. This painting once hung in the Bartlett mansion, White Hall, located on Boyles Street in Beverly, MA.

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil paint, Canvas, Oil on Canvas

Made/Created

Artist

Bartlett, Frederic Clay

Notes

Date: 1920-1950 Technique: Painting

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Notes

Maker's Mark: see Gillis

Dimensions

Height

28 in

Width

31-1/8 in

Depth

2-1/2 in

Name/Title

Painting - Dancers (or untitled?)