Description:

DANIEL MACMORRIS (American 1893-1981) A PAINTING, "Woman at a Vanity," 1920s,
oil on canvas, signed and dated L/R, "MacMorris;" 48" x 43", framed 51 1/4" x 56 3/4".

  • Provenance: Collection of Sylvia and Saverio Giammalva, Houston, Texas.
  • Notes: Daniel Leroy MacMorris: portrait painter, muralist, illustrator, decorator and designer, was born 1894 in Sedalia, Missouri, and raised in central Missouri and Kansas City. His first teachers were George Sass in Kansas City, and Alphonso Mucha in Chicago at the Chicago Art Institute. He spent two summers with Leon Gaspard in Taos, and was to remain a pupil and friend for the rest of Gaspard's life. MacMorris was an illustrator for the Kansas City Star and served in both world wars. In the first war he was sent to France in the signal corps. In WW II he spent over three years teaching camouflage in Utah. Following his first assignment to France with the army, he returned to spend five years as a student and artist with his own studio on the right bank. He studied with August Gorguet in Paris and before leaving had an exhibition at the Durand-Ruel Gallery. MacMorris returned to the States and set up a studio in New York City above the Carnegie Hall. While there he studied with Joseph Pennell, Robert Henri and George Bridgeman. He exhibited at the Durand-Ruel Galleries in New York and Newport. After 1945 he resettled in Kansas City, Missouri as a portrait painter, muralist and teacher. He died painting a mural while in his 90's. He has murals in Kansas City in the Nelson Art Gallery, the Liberty Memorial Building, and the Public Library, and in Columbus, Ohio at the State Office Building. Sources: 60 Years MacMorris by Daniel MacMorris, Library of Congress; Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art
  • Condition: The date of the picture is not visible because it is obscured by the frame. There is a band of some minor lifting and bubbling in the paint along the left edge extending down from the top left corner, approximately 22" x 4". There are a few other small areas where the paint appears to be lifting and there are likely a few small touch-ups, but in general the painted surface and the canvas are in stable condition.

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