American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists Featuring the Papageorge Family Collection

Exhibited

"Emma Fordyce MacRae, N.A. 1887-1974," Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts, March 1-July 20, 2008.

Literature

Emma Fordyce MacRae, N.A. 1887-1974, an exhibition catalogue, Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, 2008, p. 24, fig. 28 (illustrated).

Note

Emma Fordyce MacRae produced smaller still life paintings aside from her figure portraits. While her earlier compositions, such as Lot 104, are still very much impressionistic in execution and palette as they displayed broad brushstrokes of bright color throughout the board, Spring illustrates the artist's later choice of a plain background in order to enhance the contrast with the still life, here a single type of flower which further positions it as the sole subject of the painting.

Proceeds from the sale of this painting will go directly to Alzheimer's Research UK, Britain's leading dementia research charity, to fund further research into Alzheimer's and dementia-related diseases.