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The Blue Gown aka Girl with a Fan
Oil on canvas, c. 1921, size unknown
A sweet faced girl, wearing a blue gown, composed and painted in a decorative manner.
Shown at Allied Artists 8th Annual Exhibition of Paintings, April 11 to
May 1, 1921, #83
From American Art News, April 16, 1921, Vol. 19, No. 27, page 2
From The Boston Herald, July 31, 1921, page 26
Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Duxbury Art Association, July 30, 1921
Captioned as Girl with a Fan but noted in text as The Blue Gown.
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ith a Parrot
Oil on canvas, 1915, size unknown
A woman, clothed, holding aloft a parrot.
Shown at Allied Artists 2nd Annual Exhibition of Paintings, May 8-26, 1915
From American Art News, May 8, 1915, Vol. 13, No. 31, page 2
Photo from the 1915 Allied Artists of America 2nd Annual Exhibition of Paintings exhibit catalog.
Girl Sewing/Darning
Oil on canvas, c. 1914, size unknown
Shown at National Arts Club, Painters Exhibit, January 8-February 1, 1914
Shown at Allied Artists of America 1st Annual Exhibition of Paintings, March 26-May 1, 1914, #50
Shown at First Show of the New Rochelle Art Association, Opening of the New Public Library, May 9-23, 1914, #28
From The Standard, Saturday, May 9, 1914
“One of the finest is entitled ‘Girl Darning.’ It is a good-sized oil done with pastel treatment in which the artist, F. Edwin Church, successfully demonstrates that white is composed of three primary colors. …Viewing the picture from the proper distance blends the color into a most beautiful, soft and luminous composition. The only accents in the picture are the girl’s auburn hair and the black stockings she is darning.”
Photo from the National Arts Club Records 1898-1960. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian. Reel 4260, page 084
From The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Saturday, March 28, 1914, page 9
“F. Edwin Church's, Girl Sewing is a pretty little work in genre style.”
From American Art News, Vol. 12, No. 25, March 28, 1914, page 6
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Beach at Jacmel, Haiti
Oil on canvas, 1927, size unknown
Shown at Haiti — Portraits, Landscapes, Submarines by Helen Damrosch Tee-Van, F. Edwin Church, Vladimir Perfielieff, December 1-14, 1927
Painted on William Beebe’s Haitian Expedition, Ainslie Galleries, 677 Fifth Avenue, NY, #37
From The New York Times, December 11, 1927, page 202.
“The three artists who were attached to the Beebe expedition to Haiti—Helen Damrosch Tee-Van, Vladimir Perfielieff and Frederick Church—are showing the extensive fruit of their work in the tropics at Ainslie Galleries.”
Angel Fish
Oil on canvas, 1927, size unknown
Shown at Haiti — Portraits, Landscapes, Submarines by Helen Damrosch Tee-Van, F. Edwin Church, Vladimir Perfielieff, December 1-14, 1927
Painted on William Beebe’s Haitian Expedition, Ainslie Galleries, 677 Fifth Avenue, NY, #26
From The New York Times, December 11, 1927, page 202.
“The three artists who were attached to the Beebe expedition to Haiti—Helen Damrosch Tee-Van, Vladimir Perfielieff and Frederick Church—are showing the extensive fruit of their work in the tropics at Ainslie Galleries.”
Miss Dolmain
Oil on canvas, 1915, size unknown
Shown at National Academy of Design, 1915, #422
From American Art News, Vol. 12, No. 25, March 28, 1914, page 2
Image published in a New York newspaper dated Saturday, March 20, 1915.
Portrait of Virgina Neff Church, née Fraser (1925-2017)
Oil on canvas, 1947, size unknown
The daughter-in-law of the artist, married to Charles T. Church II.
Presumably painted around 1947 when they married.
Portrait of Frances Worrall
Oil on canvas, undated, 24” x 20” (approximate)
Commissioned portrait of Frances (Francie) Worrall, who later married George Ward. Francie was a friend and Locust Valley neighbor of the artist. Last viewed and photographed in 1990.
Shown at his Retrospective at The Country Art Gallery, Locust Valley, New York, March 1975.
The Blue Balcony
Oil on canvas, c. 1926, size unknown
Shown at F. Edwin Church Exhibition of Paintings, Montross Gallery, 26 East 56th St., New York, January 17-29, 1927
A horse and carriage resting in the shade before a building with a balcony. Assumed to be the painting on the exhibition catalog cover.
Church at Old Lyme
Oil on canvas, 1910, 26” x 32”
Shown at Winter Exhibition, National Academy of Design, December 10, 1910-January 18, 1911, #146
Shown at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 106th Annual Exhibition, February 5-March 26, 1911, #121
Shown at New Rochelle Art Association, First Exhibition at the Opening of the new Carnegie Public Library, May 9-23, 1914, #39
Bequeathed in her will by Mrs. Ethel Anson S. Peckham to her daughter, Content Rathbone Peckham Cowan. Stated as her picture of "Old Lyme Church" by F. Edwin Church. This information was found in The Daily Register, a Red Bank, New Jersey newspaper, dated April 6, 1965, on page 12.
Sold at auction by Christie's New York to an unknown buyer for $14,300, on February 14, 1990.