1930s Hortense Budell Still Life Painting

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Offered is an oil paint on masonite board still-life painting by Hortense Budell, from the 1930s-1940s. The painting depicts a … Read more Offered is an oil paint on masonite board still-life painting by Hortense Budell, from the 1930s-1940s. The painting depicts a pitcher with magnolia leaf cuttings, lemons, and a dish-cloth in subtle greens with angled sunlight.

It measures 22.5" wide x 18.5" tall x 1.75" deep framed, and exposed art is 19.5" wide x 15.5" tall and with its frame.

It comes from our personal collection and hung in our mother's homes from the 1960s through the 2020s. It has recently been re-framed with unvarnished Florida Pine wood and has conservation glass protection.

Artist Bio:
"Emily Hortense Budell was born March 23, 1884 in Lyon, France. Although the family home was in Westfield, New Jersey, after the birth of her older sister Ada, the Budell family had temporarily moved to France concerning family business at the time of Hortense's birth. Budell's art studies included instruction under John F. Carlson in Woodstock, Henry B. Snell and George Elmer Browne. Hortense Budell (she preferred using her middle name) was a member of a great many arts organizations and exhibited extensively, winning numerous medals, awards and prizes at the following venues: the National Academy of Design in New York, the Philadelphia Art Club, the Montclair Art Museum, the American Watercolor Society, the National Association of Women Artists, the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, the Allied Artists of America, the Philadelphia Art Club and the National Arts Club. Miss Budell also contributed to the short-lived "Museum of Nations", which had been established in Asbury Park in 1932. Emily Hortense Budell, who had never married, died March 28, 1981 in Westfield, New Jersey, at 97 years of age." See less