Waldo Peirce ART FOR SALE

Portrait of Waldo Peirce: SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AT WORK

1884 Bangor, Maine - 1970 Newburyport, Massachusetts. Known for: Figure, children, landscape, still life.

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Waldo Peirce was known for his paintings of his children, a subject he depicted numerous times when he settled in Bangor, Maine with his third wife after years of travel in Europe where he led a fun-filled adventurous life. His style was loose and imperfect but full of the spirit of what he was painting, which in his early career was often landscapes. He was born the son of a wealthy lumberman in Bangor, Maine and studied at Harvard University where he was known much more for his personality and football playing skills than for his scholastic ability. In 1910, he decided to go to Europe, but after boarding the ship in Boston, changed his mind, jumped overboard and swam ashore. However, shortly after that, he left for England and then went... Read full biography

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Type:Painting

Size:24.00" x 30.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Lower Right

Notes:

Nude on the telephone lying on a leopard print blanket, likely in Key West where Peirce was close friends with Ernest Hemingway. Peirce painted the cover illustration of Hemingway for Time Magazine in October of 1937.

Price: $12,500. Please contact Parco Fine Art