These summer-like temperatures are making us feel like Florine Stettheimer’s Heat (1919). Pain
These summer-like temperatures are making us feel like Florine Stettheimer’s Heat (1919). Painted in her typically quirky mix of fantasy and reality, this family portrait is inspired by a birthday celebration for Stettheimer’s mother in the summer of 1918. In it the artist, her mother, and three sisters lounge in the intense summer heat in a garden, loosely based on their rented summer house in the hamlet of Bedford Hills, New York which is about 1 hour north of New York City. The artist’s sister Ettie (here in pink flowered dress) left the painting to the Brooklyn Museum in 1957, and it is now reunited with other images of Stettheimer’s family circle in @thejewishmuseum’s new show Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry.Florine Stettheimer (American, 1871-1944). Heat, 1919. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum -- source link
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