Richard Andrew -Portrait of an Irish Woman-Oil Painting C1910s

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Richard Andrew -Portrait of an Irish Woman-Oil Painting c1910s

New England- American Impressionist - Oil painting on board - Signed … Read more Richard Andrew -Portrait of an Irish Woman-Oil Painting c1910s

New England- American Impressionist - Oil painting on board - Signed -
Board size 16x13" - Frame size- 21x17"

Artist Biography
Richard Andrew (1869 - 1956) was active/lived in Massachusetts.He is known for Mural, portrait, landscape, mural.
Richard Andrew — painter, teacher, and lecturer — was born on January 9, 1869 in Belfast, Ireland and died in 1956, in Gloucester, Mass. Andrew specialized in murals, landscapes, and portraits and was a department head at the Massachusetts School of Art in Boston. With his wife, Lucy Pew Andrew, he worked and lived mainly in Boston and Gloucester, MA. His Boston addresses were 15 Tremont Street in 1896; 192 Boylston Street in 1906; 400 Northampton Street in 1907; 5 Watson Street in 1908; and the Fenway Studios in 1926. Around 1913, Andrew and his wife were summer residents of Wolf Hill, Gloucester, MA and by 1934, they were living in Gloucester.Andrew studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston, MA; the Académie Julian in Paris; and the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. He was a pupil of Jean Leon Jerome (1824-1904) and Jean Paul Laurens (1838-1921) in Paris and was a member of the Guild of Boston Artists and the Gloucester Society of Artists. Andrew exhibited with the Albright Art Gallery; the Lowell Art Association in Lowell, MA; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, 1921; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; the St. Louis Art Museum in St. Louis, MO; the Worcester Museum of Art in Worcester, MA; the Cincinnati Art Museum in OH; several watercolors at the Boston Art Club from 1890 to1908; and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.Five of Andrew's murals are in the Hall of Valor of the Massachusetts Statehouse in Boston: (1) The Decoration of the Colors of the 104th United States Infantry; (2) Veterans of the Sixth Regiment Memorial, Introduction and Records of Duty; (3) Veterans of the Sixth Regiment Memorial, Marching Through Baltimore; (4) Veterans of the Sixth Regiment Memorial, Landing in Puerto Rico; and (5) Veterans of the Sixth Regiment Memorial, Record of Duty Panel II.The Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell, Mass. has three oils in their collection; Self-Portrait, oil on panel; Sunlit Rock, oil on canvas; and Thatcher's Light, oil on canvas. Autumn, a large decorative mural, is in the collection of the Furman University Library in Greenville, SC. See less