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| Stanford White (1853-1906), American, Water Color,Villeneuve-Les-Avignon, H.10-1/8" x W.13-1/2". |
| Inventory No: NAPT.1999.000029 |
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| Stanford White (1853-1906), American, Water Color,Villeneuve-Les-Avignon, H.10-1/8" x W.13-1/2". |
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| Standford White (1853-1906) American, Architect, Designer |
Artist:
Stanford White (1853-1906) American
Title:
"Villeneuve-Les-Avignon" (City of Avignon, France)
Date:
August 2-13, 1878 ¹
Medium: Water
Colour
Materials: Water Colour
on Paper
Markings: Signed, Lower Left
Corner
Dimensions: 10-1/8” x 13-½”
Framed: Yes,
within Stanford White’s original Designed Frame. The Artwork has remained within the original frame when acquired by
Mr. Prince and Mr. Hemphill, Jr.;
Inventory
No: NAPT.1999.000029
Provenance: Neal
Prince Trust u/a/d 10.18.1999
Mr. Neal A. Prince
Mr. Neal A. Prince and Mr. Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr.
Roy
Davis Gallery, 231
East 60th Street, New York, New York 10022
Provenance: This item was purchased from Roy Davis Galleries, 231 East 60th Street, New York, New York 10022
Provenance:
Source documentation for the Fine Arts Appraisal for Herbert W. Hemphill, Jr., May 12, 1964, Page 11/13
Footnote: Provenance
is fully noted within Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. (a/k/a Burt) insurance policy executed by Neal A. Prince in 1964 and is filed with the Smithsonian Institute American Archives
in Box 6, in Folders 13-18.
Footnote¹: Source authenticating that Mr. White was
in the City of Avignon, France from August 2-13,
1878, along with Mr. Charles McKim. In a letter that White made evident to
his family, that this area was architectural richness, oenoloical delight, and feminine pulchritude:
“At Beaune, besides the beauty of the town itself, we came across two very attractive and inseparable things,
viz. good wine and pretty women…The town is still encircled by its old walls, crowned with machicolations and guarded
by round towers….The day all through was of the most perfect description and we arrived safely at Avignon (which towered
up from the river like a rock) in the evening , found a very good hotel, had a most excellent dinner and a fine old bottle
of Hermitage…Avignon was the residence of the Popes for two hundred years and has the largest and most grandiose medieval
castle in the world……” – Page 54-55, from the book STANFORD
WHITE’S NEW YORK, by David Garrard Lowe, ©1992. Doubleday Publishers 666 Fifth Avenue, New
York, New York 10103. ISBN 0-385-26016-4
Stanford White
(1853-1906) American
Mr. Stanford White was born
into a life of wealth and privilege on November
9th, 1853. He was a talented and versatile draftsman who in 1880, joined Charles
Follen McKim and William Rutherford Mead in founding McKim, Mead and White, which soon became the most prominent architectural
firm in the country. Mr. White was an important American architect of his time. His career was rich and full and varied from
designing the summer homes of the Astor's and The Vanderbilt’s to such formidable structures as The Washington Square
Arch, Madison Square Garden and the New York Herald Building. He was an extrovert, a lavish entertainer with a penchant for young, beautiful women. He was killed by Henry Kendall
Thaw, a multimillionaire heir to a railroad and ore fortune from Pittsburgh. Mr.
Thaw rage and ill mannered behavior consumed him and finally erupted at the super club theatre on the roof of Madison Square Garden on the night of June 25, 1906. Mr. Thaw fired three shots at close range into Mr. White's face and head over the issue
of his wife, Evelyn Nesbit, had dated Mr. White in the past.
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| Stanford White's New York Book, by David Lowe |
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Recommended Reading:
STANFORD WHITE’S NEW YORK, by David Garrard Lowe, ©1992.
Doubleday Publishers 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10103.
ISBN 0-385-26016-4
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