James Stuart Park (Scottish) 1862 – 1933
Girl framed by Flowers, Oil on Canvas,
signed in monogram, upper right,
19.5″ x 15.5″ sight, 26.75″ x 22.75″ frame
Estimate: $5000. NFS.
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Excellent condition. The frame is not original to the painting, but is appropriate for the period.
Provenance: Acquired from a Michigan Avenue Gallery, Chicago whose owner discovered the painting, rolled in a tube, in the barn of an estate in Wisconsin.
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 work for which he first gained attention when he was just twenty-seven.
Stuart Park was born at Kidderminster, Worcestershire, but his parents were from Ayrshire and he was brought up there. Although he studied at Glasgow School of Art and in Paris, under Lefebvre, Boulanger and Cormon, he began by painting in his spare time, taking up art professionally in Glasgow in 1888.
He specialised in painting carefully arranged bouquets of roses, lilies, orchids and azaleas and developed a highly individual technique, using thick and rapid strokes against a dark background, suggesting, rather than defining, the texture and colour of flowers. Park worked only in Scotland, exhibiting regularly at the RSA and Glasgow Institute and exhibited rarely in England. His work became fashionable, particularly in the West of Scotland, and he was soon able to charge fairly high prices for his rapidly executed paintings. He was associated with the Glasgow Boys and exhibited with them but was never a central member of the group. He died at Kilmarnock, aged 71.”
Credit: Calton Gallery, Edinburgh.
The painting in this listing matches another, A Gypsy Maid, in the collection of the Dundee City Art Gallery (reproduced as a full page color plate in William Hardie’s Scottish Painting 1837-1939), in both style and size. Both are signed in monogram and are thought to date from around 1892. Park died in Kilmarnock in 1933.
Dundee Art Galleries and Museums Collection (Dundee City Council); http://www.artuk.org/artworks/a-gipsy-maid-92767
Also by this artist:
Credit: Scottish Flair Art Gallery
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