BRUMBACK, LOUISE UPTON (American, 1872-1929) "Flower Market, Paris," ca. 1908. Signed, L.R. Oil on board, 13" x 16" (sight); 23" x 27˝" (framed). Price Category: D

Born in Rochester, New York, Louise Upton Brumback, known for floral still lifes, marine, and landscape scenes, studied at William Merritt Chase's Shinnecock Summer School of Art on Long Island, which was an important training ground for American impressionists. She was greatly influenced by Chase's painting. Gloucester was a favorite painting location, but Brumback also traveled frequently to the west coast, where she painted seascapes. France was another favorite destination. Brumback was a member of several prestigious New York art associations and exhibited at a variety of important venues. In 1919 she moved to Kansas City, where her husband, Frank Brumback, was an attorney for several insurance companies. They were summer residents of East Gloucester, MA., where in 1912 they acquired 10 acres of land on Sunset Hill near Rocky Pasture Road. Louise Upton Brumback died on Nov. 22, 1929, in Nice, France. This lovely impressionist scene was painted in Paris, very likely in the early spring of 1908; it can be dated by a painting by Jane Peterson in that year of the identical flower sellers, a couple wearing black coats and hats shown reading on a bench in a Paris park next to their flower stand. (Peterson's painting, by the way, was offered for sale by a major gallery in Boston for $87,000; that same gallery also handles Brumback's work-at prices considerably higher than ours.) Provenance: The Estate of Frederick James, a Kansas City artist, 1994; Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, 1995. Exhibitions: Art Institute of Chicago Corcoran Gallery Biennial National Association of Women Artists National Academy of Design National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors New York Society of Women Artists Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915 Pennsylvania Academy Salons of America Museums: Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska The Brooklyn Museum of Art The Newark Museum Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska References: Jim L. Collins, Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to the Present. Peter H. Falk, The Annual Exhibition Record of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1914- 1968 (Soundview Press, 1989) Peter H. Falk, The Annual Exhibition Record of the National Academy of Design, 1901-1950 (Soundview Press, 1990). Peter H. Falk, The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1888-1950 (Soundview Press, 1990). Peter H. Falk, ed. Who Was Who in American Art (Soundview Press, 1999). Clark S. Marlor, The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record, 1917-1944 (Noyes Press, Park Ridge, N. J.) Jules Heller and Nancy C. Heller, North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary (Garland Publishing: New York, 1995). Glenn B. Opitz, ed. Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers. Chris Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists. Ronald Pisano, The Students of William Merritt Chase (Heckscher Museum, Huntington, N.Y.). Phil Kovinick and Marian Y. Kovinick, An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West. Effie Seachrest, "Louise Upton Brumback,"The American Magazine of Art 10:9 (July 1919): 336-337. Paul E. Sternberg, Art by American Women. Hans Vollmer, Allegemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler (Seemann Verlag: Leipzig, 1953).

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