Antique Oil Canvas Chester Loomis sign 1885 HUGE ART Painting Normandy Milkmaid

  
The Painting (Oil on Canvas) is named "Normandy Milkmaid". This original antique painting from 1885 is very well signed on the front (right corner). This REMARKABLE Art work won the first prize (gold medal) in 1907.

This treasure is beyond words. It is a beautiful complement to any home. You can see an exquisite detail, outstanding work and grand artistic expression. The Size with a very unique frame is 55" by 69".

The size of this painting alone without the frame is 44" by 57". 19th Century hand carved wooden frame is SUPER HEAVY.

Gorgeous Piece of Art came from an outstanding private collection. From an estate sale in Washington DC. This treasure is in original Antique condition. The network of cracks from age, that develops across the surface on a painting.

You will love this unique Oil on canvas! The paperwork includes: Original Phoenix Art Museum letters. To the owner, AMON Carter Museum letters, and exhibition papers. Invitation to the opening of the Chester Loomis Exhibition.

Address: Montrose Galleries, 8009 Norfolk Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland -December 3 1972. Original Letter from Office of Director of Phoenix Art Museum. From Assistant Director/Chief Curator James K. To the owner Henry Glassie - June 17, 1981. To the owner Henry Glassie - October 12, 1981. Loan Agreement from Phoenix Art Museum - September 1 1982. Letter/Invitation to the Party after the opening of the exhibition. Glassie - November 29, 1982. Henry Glassie - August 12, 1982. Invitation to register for the symposium and to join for lunch. In Museum Library in AMON Carter Museum - January 3 1983. Invitation from AMON Carter Museum to attend a preview of the exhibition. Glassie - September 24 - November 28 1982.

And Invitation to a special party for members - October 6 1982. Letter invitation to the owner Mrs.

The AMON Carter Museum Announces - Program -January 8, 1983. And Peter Hurd: "Insight to a Painter" - March 25 1983. Original Outgoing Receipt from Office of the Registrar of Phoenix Art Museum. Glassie - August 17, 1983 (Thank you letter).

Letter from National Museum of Art about exhibition. "Americans in Brittany and Normandy" in June 1983. And the cover letter from Director of Phoenix Art Museum James K.

Glassie - March 24, 1983. Letter from Registrar Rosemary O'Neill from Phoenix Art Museum.

About returning the Painting from the exhibition. This information was compiled by Henry H.

From information supplied by the artist's son, John P. Additional family information and illustrations supplied by his great-granddaughter.

Chester Hicks Loomis was born near Syracuse, New York on October 18, 1852. He attended Cornell University where he later executed a mural. This was destroyed by fire, but is illustrated in the Brochure. Of the Mural Painters National Society (1916).

Loomis first studied under Harry Ives Thompson in West Haven, Connecticut. In 1874 he went to France where he remained for eleven years.

Here he studied at the Julian Academy and under Leon Bonnat. During his stay in France, Loomis exhibited at six Paris Salons.

The latter is now in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. A full-page illustration of this painting appears in The Gallery of Contemporary Art. While living in Paris, Loomis also exhibited (in 1879). At the Royal Academy a painting entitled Fourteenth Century Justice. Showing a poacher being man-handled before a child prince. During this period Loomis traveled and painted extensively in Italy, especially in Capri. For he married Sarah Sophia Dana on August 23, 1883 in Kansas City, MO.

Was born in 1884 in Paris. In about 1889 Chester moved his family to Englewood, New Jersey. Where his second son, John Putnam Loomis, was born. He maintained his studio in Englewood and resided there.

Until his death on November 12, 1924. He illustrated children's books, some under his own name. Including the Dutton 1892 edition of Mother Goose. He also used the pseudonym, Valnotte.

His work appears in many periodicals of the day, including Scribner's Magazine. His first love, however, continued to be the narrative painting and landscapes. His Normandy Milkmaid won the first prize (gold medal).

In 1906 Chester Loomis was elected an associate member of the National Academy. And the Academy has his self-portrait in their collection. He was a member of the Salamagundi Club, and on intimate terms. With many of the leading artists of his day. Among the most charming of his works are small.

Intimate watercolors of fishing streams and ponds - done for his own pleasure. Very few of his easel paintings in oil have reached the market.