The Tea Table

Fannie Hillsmith (1911 - 2007)
Dated: 1950
Size: 9 3/8" W x 10" H
Fannie Hillsmith was a noted Cubist painter, printmaker, and collagist. She lived in New York City and summered in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Schooled at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts (her grandfather, Frank Hill Smith, was one of its founders), she also studied in New York City at the Art Students League on scholarship in 1934 and 1935 with John Sloan, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Alexander Brook and William Zorach.

Hillsmith's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan; DeWaters Art Institute, Flint, Michigan; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; Illinois Art Museum, Springfield; and Decatur Art Museum, Illinois.

Provenance: Swetzoff Gallery, Boston, MA label on verso.

Condition: Excellent. Small chips to white shadow box near right side of panel.

Price: SOLD

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