Lot 1020
Harriet Lord (American, 1879-1958), Marsh Pools
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Stretcher size 20 1/4 x 24 in.; Frame dimensions 26 x 30 in.
Exhibited:
Art Alliance of America, in conjunction with the Craftsmen's Society, The Fifteenth Annual Exhibition, December 1922
Illustrated:
Bulletin of the Art Center, February 1923, Vol. 1, No. 7, p. 120
Harriet Lord was an American painter known for her landscapes, portraits, and still lifes, particularly scenes inspired by coastal New England and Nantucket. Determined to become an artist from an early age, she studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston under prominent painters Frank W. Benson, Edmund C. Tarbell, and Joseph de Camp, and later with William L. Lathrop. After moving to New York City in 1917, she became an exhibiting member of the National Association of Women Artists and gained recognition in the 1920s for her large paintings of the Ipswich marshes in Massachusetts.
By the late 1920s, Lord had become an active member of the Nantucket art community, exhibiting for decades at her Red Anchor Studio and participating in local galleries and art associations. Known for her willingness to experiment with style and medium, her work often emphasized the rich seasonal color of the New England landscape, especially the autumn moors and marshes that became her signature subjects.
Light surface grime; minor buckling to canvas; minor retouch to sky visible under UV light.
