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Gypsy Girl in Flowers, Oil on Canvas,
signed in monogram, upper right,
19.5" x 15.5" sight,
26.75"
x 22.75" frame.
About the Painting:Excellent condition. The frame is not original
to the painting, but is appropriate
for the
period.
About the Artist: James Stuart Park was born in Kidderminster
of Ayrshire parents in 1862.
The family returned
to Scotland shortly after his
birth, and
he would gain his formal art
training at
the Glasgow School of Art and
in Paris under
Lefebvre, Boulanger and Cormon.
He was associated
with the Glasgow Boys - sharing a studio with David Gauld and
James Kay. He exhibited at the R.S.A. and Glasgow Institute,
but rarely in England. Yellow Roses, painted in 1889 and now in the Glasgow
Art Gallery, was the the work
for which he
first gained attention when he
was just twenty-seven.
A departure from his more common work featuring
flowers in still life, this painting
is probably
one of a matching pair. The other,
A Gypsy Maid, is in the collection of the Dundee City
Art Gallery and is included as
a full page
color plate in William Hardie's
Scottish Painting 1837-1939. A Gypsy Maid and "her older sister" (both paintings
are the same size and both are
signed in
monogram) are thought to date
from 1892.
Floral paintings were to become
Stuart Park's
"bread and butter"
in the early
1900s, but they lack the originality
of his
earlier work.
Park died in Kilmarnock in 1933.
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