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Lot 65
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Joseph Lindon Smith (1863-1950), Great Hall in the Temple of Isis, Island of Philae, gouache, signed lower left: Joseph Lindon Smith, 1905

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Description

  • Joseph Lindon Smith (1863-1950), Great Hall in the Temple of Isis, Island of Philae, gouache
  • Gouache on paper
  • 30 1/2 by 10 in. as framed 77.5 by 25.4 cm.

Provenance

Childs Gallery, Newberry Street, Boston, 1982
Estate of Robert C. Woolley (1944-1996), New York

Catalogue Note

For another version of the same subject see Joseph Lindon Smith, Tombs, Temples, and Ancient Art, University of Oklahoma press, 1956, illustration facing p. 17.

The American painter Joseph Lindon Smith studied at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and in 1883 sailed to Paris with his friend and fellow painter Frank Weston Benson, where they studied under Bouguereau, Lefebvre, and Boulanger. While on a trip to Venice Smith met Isabella Stewart Gardner, who became a lifelong friend and supporter. In 1898 he journeyed to Egypt, where he came to the attention of archaeologists such as George Reisner of Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, who enlisted Smith to document their discoveries, especially tomb wall paintings (see for ex♍ample Sotheby’s, New York, June 12th, 1993, nos. 311-314). Smith and his wife Corinna, whom he married in 1899, for decades spent their winters in Egypt and South America, and summers at the Dublin Art Colony on Dublin Pond in New Hampshire, whose other creative members included Rockwell Kent and Charles Scribner, and whose visitors numbered Amy Lowell, Mark Twain, John Singer Sargent, and many other great artists and writers of the day.