Marguerite Kirmse (British American, 1885-1954), The Scottish Terriers

Lot Details & Additional Photographs

Pastel on paper, 1917, signed and dated at lower left, retaining gallery label to verso, presented under glass in an attractive gilt frame.

Depicted in this portrait are seven champion Scottish Terriers including:
Bapton Beatrice; Walescott Albourne Crow; Earlybird Troubadour; Walescott Maister Willie; Bapton Beryl; Walescott Invader; and Conqueror.

Sheet size 13 1/2 x 19 1/2 in.; Frame dimensions 23 1/2 x 30 3/4 in.

William Secord Gallery, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above

Marguerite Kirmse was an English-born artist best known for her depictions of dogs and sporting scenes. Originally trained as a harpist at the Royal Academy of Music in London, she moved to the United States and established herself as a specialist in canine art, gaining recognition for her etchings, pastels, and paintings. Kirmse produced more than eighty etchings between 1921 and 1954 and became especially associated with Scottish Terriers through her breeding and exhibition activities at Arcady Farm in Connecticut. Her studies of hunting dogs, inspired in part by time spent in the Carolinas, culminated in the celebrated limited-edition volume Dogs in the Field (1935).

Good estate condition; not examined out of the frame.