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American modernist painter Alfred Henry Maurer is a classic tale of a talented artist that was under appreciated while alive. In this oil painting, completed a few years before he took his own life, we see Maurer’s skill at layering and visible brushstrokes to create a textured surface capturing a subject's character and inner self. A young woman's head is turned slightly turned towards us, with her gaze directed off to our right. The positioning and overlapping brushstrokes in the portrait emphasize the stylized three-dimensional form of the unidentified lady. Her features are expressive, with large black eyes and an elongated face and neck. Her full lips and rosy cheeks are the only hints of rouge in a composition full of greens and earth tones. Her hair is depicted with visible brushstrokes and varying shades of brown and gold. Her attire is suggested by dark green paint forming a simple shallow bowl-neck dress. Maurer was born in New York City, the son of German-born Louis Maurer, a lithographer with a pronounced disdain for modern art. At 16, Maurer quit school to work at his father's lithographic firm. In 1897, after studying with the sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward and painter William Merritt Chase, Maurer left for Paris, where he stayed the next 4 years, joining a circle of American and French artists. Finding the instruction at the Academie Julian too limited, he spent much of his time copying art in the Louvre museum. He achieved notable awards and honors, yet, at age 36, in Paris, deviating from what everyone (including himself, at times) called "acceptable" painting styles, Maurer changed his methods sharply and, from that point on, painted only in a cubist and fauvist manner. His break from realism and his new commitment to modernism, fostered by exposure to the art collected by his friends Gertrude and Leo Stein, subsequently cost him any hope of paternal regard and his international reputation … until after his passing in 1932 until today.
“Woman with Blue Dress” by Alfred Maurer (American) - Oil on gesso on composition board / 1927-1928 - Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, Minnesota) #WomenInArt #art #ArtText #artwork #AlfredMaurer #AlfredHenryMaurer #oilpainting #womensart #WeismanArtMuseum #PortraitofaWoman #ModernArt #artoftheday
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