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Mary Petty "Maid Dusting Henry Moore Sculpture" Signed Original Watercolor
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Unframed Original watercolor painting
Hand signed by the artist
Size: 15-1/4" x 11-1/4"
Condition: Great. It was once framed. There …
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Unframed Original watercolor painting
Hand signed by the artist
Size: 15-1/4" x 11-1/4"
Condition: Great. It was once framed. There is a little tape in 2 spots on the very edges which will be easy to mat over when re-framing. 100 percent guarantee of authenticity. Certificate of Authenticity is included. MAKE AN OFFER!
BIO:
Mary Petty graduated from the Horace Mann School in New York City in 1922, and five years later she and Alan Dunn were married. Although Petty underwent no formal art training, she had the firm support of her husband who encouraged her originality and natural talent for drawing and provided artistic guidance.
Soon she too, like him, was being published in The New Yorker, and over the next four decades created a singular style of illustration characterized by a gentle satirization of New York City's Victorian era society. In a series of 35 covers produced over 26 years, Mary Petty created and chronicled the lives of the Peabody family, including Mrs. Peabody, dowager of the family, and Fay, the whimsical, fragile maid who cared for the aging mistress and her family.
These cover illustrations so successfully portrayed the personality quirks of New York's upper class that people would write to remark that they knew a family that must have been the model for these paintings.
Petty published over 200 cartoons in The New Yorker and painted more than 30 watercolors for the front cover of the magazine. Her work was exhibited nationally and internationally during her lifetime.
Examples of her art are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of the City of New York and the Wichita Art Museum in Wichita, Kansas. The largest single collection of her work is owned by the Syracuse University Art Collections, a gift from the artist.
Mary Petty and Alan Dunn believed that gentle, pictorial satire could be as effective as political or editorial comment. Between them they created thousands of drawings that commented upon issues that are still important to us today, reminding us that a genteel manner of examining our culture can still be effective.
[Portions of this biographical sketch adapted from text for "Mary Petty Exhibit" at Syracuse University's Lubin House and from "American Satire: Humor in The New Yorker" at Syracuse University in Florence]
Source:
"Alan Dunn and Mary Petty Papers," Syracuse University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center, Web, Feb. 2018
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- Dimensions
- 11.25ʺW × 0.02ʺD × 15.25ʺH
- Styles
- Illustration
- Art Subjects
- Figure
- Pop Culture
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Period
- 1970s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Watercolor
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Blue
- Condition Notes
- Great. It was once framed. There is a little tape in 2 spots on the very edges which will be … moreGreat. It was once framed. There is a little tape in 2 spots on the very edges which will be easy to mat over when re-framing. less
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