Apr 10, 2024
Florine Stettheimer painted this portrait of leading NY art critic Henry McBride hugging a Winslow Homer watercolor of a palm tree on a reproduction of the Homer painting itself. McBride called the painting, which at the Met, one of his "aesthetic pre-occupations," and Stettheimer turned it into his brand. Then gave this weird thing to her lawyer, whose heirs are finally selling it.
#florine stettheimer#henry mcbride#winslow homer#palm tree#the 1920s really do be like that where a critic gets a full page a day in one of the ten newspapers to ponder the great american art?#and it was a watercolor of a palm tree that a recluse made on a trip to the bahamas 25 years ago was there really nothing better since?#christie's
