The Sorrows of Little Red Riding Hood
Type:Painting
Year:circa 1865
Size:15.50" x 12.25"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Provenance: by descent through a Connecticut family. Exhibited (possibly): National Academy of Design, New York, 1865.
Seymour Joseph Guy ART FOR SALE
1824 Greenwich, England - 1910 New York City. Known for: Genre, portrait and child-figure painting.
Following are excerpts from The Magazine Antiques, "Seymour Joseph Guy: Little Master of American genre painting.". By Bruce Weber | November 2009 | . Seymour Joseph Guy established a reputation in... Read full biography
Following are excerpts from The Magazine Antiques, "Seymour Joseph Guy: Little Master of American genre painting.". By Bruce Weber | November 2009 | . Seymour Joseph Guy established a reputation in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century as one of the finest genre painters of children. His... Read full biography
Following are excerpts from The Magazine Antiques, "Seymour Joseph Guy: Little Master of American genre painting.". By Bruce Weber | November 2009 | . Seymour Joseph Guy established a reputation in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century as one of the finest genre painters of children. His primarily cabinet-sized pictures were esteemed by his fellow artists and leading collectors of American art. He was widely respected for his technical ability and knowledge of the science of painting,... Read full biography
Following are excerpts from The Magazine Antiques, "Seymour Joseph Guy: Little Master of American genre painting.". By Bruce Weber | November 2009 | . Seymour Joseph Guy established a reputation in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century as one of the finest genre painters of children. His primarily cabinet-sized pictures were esteemed by his fellow artists and leading collectors of American art. He was widely respected for his technical ability and knowledge of the science of painting, but with the emergence of a younger generation of European-trained artists in the 1880s, Guy's meticulous and smoothly polished scenes of childhood began to fall out of fashion. In recent decades his art and talent have been reappraised by museums,... Read full biography
Following are excerpts from The Magazine Antiques, "Seymour Joseph Guy: Little Master of American genre painting.". By Bruce Weber | November 2009 | . Seymour Joseph Guy established a reputation in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century as one of the finest genre painters of children. His primarily cabinet-sized pictures were esteemed by his fellow artists and leading collectors of American art. He was widely respected for his technical ability and knowledge of the science of painting, but with the emergence of a younger generation of European-trained artists in the 1880s, Guy's meticulous and smoothly polished scenes of childhood began to fall out of fashion. In recent decades his art and talent have been reappraised by museums, scholars, and collectors of early American art, but up to now almost nothing has been published about his life... Read full biography
Seymour Joseph Guy - Art for Sale (2 available)
The Bedtime Story
Type:Painting
Year:1878
Size:34.00" x 28.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed