GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This portrait was painted in Seville, Spain, between January and May 1909, during a yearlong study trip that Francis Luis Mora took to Scotland, London, Paris, and several Spanish cities. The work was completed in a rented studio, with a hired model wearing picturesque peasant garb intended to evoke the image of a Spanish gypsy. Mora had wanted to paint outdoors, but unrelenting rain that spring kept the artist inside. As he wrote in his diary at one frustrated moment, "It feels today more like Scotland in October."
Francis Luis Mora was born in Uruguay to a Spanish father and French mother who had immigrated to South America. When Mora was three, his sculptor father returned the family temporarily to Barcelona, Spain, before permanently settling in New York in 1880. Mora studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Art Students League in New York with Edmund Charles Tarbell, Frank Weston Benson, and William Merritt Chase. During the early 20th century, he enjoyed a long and successful career as a portraitist, popular illustrator, and painter of Spanish-inflected subjects.
Excerpt from
William Keyse Rudolph, DMA label copy (1910.3), July 2008.
NOTES
General description is identical to text currently listed in the Public Notes and Label Text fields in TMS- 14 June 2016.
Changed from routed to completed- 14 June 2016.
- Entered Gitana y Sol as a former title (used in the Official Catalogue of the Permanent Collection in the Art Gallery at Fair Park, 1922).
- Entered The Sun Screen as a former title based on the Dallas Morning News article, "Select the Paintings for Permanent Gallery" (November 7, 1909) which refers to The Sun Screen as the work purchased by the DAA.
- Object file contains photocopies of correspondence from Mora to Alexandre Hogue, March 28, 1927. The copies appear to come from the Archives of American Art, Hogue papers, 1480-1481 (reel numbers). [See associated Catalogue Essay below]
Removed TMS object tag because rule exists.
Adding "draft" tag back to note, Dec 19, 2016, as part of the revised harvest/route procedure. This note will be pulled into GDrive and manually moved to Queta's folders for final review. Update- January 18, 2017- Adding #routed tag so that I can easily keep track of this note in Evernote to confirm that it is eventually pushed into GDrive. As of January 18, 2017 the content is in Brain but not in GDrive so I am unable to finish revisions and mark it complete in Evernote or move the GDoc to Queta's folder.
Confirmed note updated in GDrive. Tagged completed and moved GDoc to Queta folder. (1/24/2017)
Artist geography:
- Born July 27, 1874- Montevideo, Uruguay
- Died June 5, 1940- New York City
- Raised in- NYC (1880)
- Raised in- Allston, Massachusetts (Before 1892) Graduated from Allston High School
- Worked in- Perth Amboy, New Jersey (1893-1940) Moved here with his family after graduating high school and it remained his home base for the rest of his life. He married Sophia (Sonia) Brown Compton, the daughter of Perth Amboy’s mayor, in 1900.
- Trained- Boston (1889) Enrolled at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to study under Edmund Tarbell and Frank Weston Benson
- Trained- NYC (1892) Enrolled at the Art Students League under Edward Siddons Mowbray.
- Worked- Barcelona (1896) Traveled to Spain with his mother.
- Worked- Madrid (1896, 1905) Traveled to Spain with his mother, met William Merritt Chase while both worked in the Museo del Prado. Rented a studio in Madrird in 1905.
- Worked- New York (1896-1940) Taught at Chase School of Art (renamed New York School of Art in 1898) and the Art Students League. Georgia O’Keeffe was his student at the ASL 1907-1908.
- Worked- Seville (1909) Spent the year in Seville.
- Worked- Gaylordsville, CT (1913-1931) He completed his summer home in 1923 and co-founded the Kent Art Association in 1924. After his wife’s death in 1931, he left to briefly live with his brother and then returned to New York City. He eventually sold his Gaylordsville property in 1939.
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Francis Luis Mora
Cultures
Geography
Seville, Spain (object created)
Process/materials
- oil paint
- canvas
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
- Dallas Art Association
- Art Students League (New York, NY)
- models
- costume (character)
- portrait
- peasant
- red
- white
- window
- seated
- shadows
- rain
- interior spaces
- sunlight
- girls
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
From 1910: Dallas Art Association [1]
[1] The Dallas Art Association is the predecessor to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. The name was abandoned in 1970. Works from this collection were transferred to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
AUDIO ASSETS
VIDEO ASSETS
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WEB RESOURCES
ARCHIVAL RESOURCES
- Dallas Art Association, Official Catalogue of the Permanent Collection in the Art Gallery at Fair Park, 1922. 12710641: UMO
- Object number added to Piction
- Dallas Art Association, Official Catalogue of the Permanent Collection in the Art Gallery at Fair Park, 1916. 12710609: UMO
- Object number added to Piction
FUN FACTS
As an instructor at the Art Students League, Francis Luis Mora taught Georgia O'Keeffe between 1907 and 1908.
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General Description
This portrait was painted in Seville, Spain, between January and May 1909, during a yearlong study trip that Francis Luis Mora took to Scotland, London, Paris, and several Spanish cities. The work was completed in a rented studio, with a hired model wearing picturesque peasant garb intended to evoke the image of a Spanish gypsy. Mora had wanted to paint outdoors, but unrelenting rain that spring kept the artist inside. As he wrote in his diary at one frustrated moment, "It feels today more like Scotland in October."
Francis Luis Mora was born in Uruguay to a Spanish father and French mother who had immigrated to South America. When Mora was three, his sculptor father returned the family temporarily to Barcelona, Spain, before permanently settling in New York in 1880. Mora studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Art Students League in New York with Edmund Charles Tarbell, Frank Weston Benson, and William Merritt Chase. During the early 20th century, he enjoyed a long and successful career as a portraitist, popular illustrator, and painter of Spanish-inflected subjects.
Excerpt from
William Keyse Rudolph, DMA label copy (1910.3), July 2008.
Fun Facts
As an instructor at the Art Students League, Francis Luis Mora taught Georgia O'Keeffe between 1907 and 1908.
Archival Resources
- Dallas Art Association, Official Catalogue of the Permanent Collection in the Art Gallery at Fair Park, 1922. 12710641: UMO
- Object number added to Piction
- Dallas Art Association, Official Catalogue of the Permanent Collection in the Art Gallery at Fair Park, 1916. 12710609: UMO
- Object number added to Piction
Web Resources
Notes
General description is identical to text currently listed in the Public Notes and Label Text fields in TMS- 14 June 2016.
Changed from routed to completed- 14 June 2016.
- Entered Gitana y Sol as a former title (used in the Official Catalogue of the Permanent Collection in the Art Gallery at Fair Park, 1922).
- Entered The Sun Screen as a former title based on the Dallas Morning News article, "Select the Paintings for Permanent Gallery" (November 7, 1909) which refers to The Sun Screen as the work purchased by the DAA.
- Object file contains photocopies of correspondence from Mora to Alexandre Hogue, March 28, 1927. The copies appear to come from the Archives of American Art, Hogue papers, 1480-1481 (reel numbers). [See associated Catalogue Essay below]
Removed TMS object tag because rule exists.
Adding "draft" tag back to note, Dec 19, 2016, as part of the revised harvest/route procedure. This note will be pulled into GDrive and manually moved to Queta's folders for final review. Update- January 18, 2017- Adding #routed tag so that I can easily keep track of this note in Evernote to confirm that it is eventually pushed into GDrive. As of January 18, 2017 the content is in Brain but not in GDrive so I am unable to finish revisions and mark it complete in Evernote or move the GDoc to Queta's folder.
Confirmed note updated in GDrive. Tagged completed and moved GDoc to Queta folder. (1/24/2017)
Artist geography:
- Born July 27, 1874- Montevideo, Uruguay
- Died June 5, 1940- New York City
- Raised in- NYC (1880)
- Raised in- Allston, Massachusetts (Before 1892) Graduated from Allston High School
- Worked in- Perth Amboy, New Jersey (1893-1940) Moved here with his family after graduating high school and it remained his home base for the rest of his life. He married Sophia (Sonia) Brown Compton, the daughter of Perth Amboy’s mayor, in 1900.
- Trained- Boston (1889) Enrolled at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to study under Edmund Tarbell and Frank Weston Benson
- Trained- NYC (1892) Enrolled at the Art Students League under Edward Siddons Mowbray.
- Worked- Barcelona (1896) Traveled to Spain with his mother.
- Worked- Madrid (1896, 1905) Traveled to Spain with his mother, met William Merritt Chase while both worked in the Museo del Prado. Rented a studio in Madrird in 1905.
- Worked- New York (1896-1940) Taught at Chase School of Art (renamed New York School of Art in 1898) and the Art Students League. Georgia O’Keeffe was his student at the ASL 1907-1908.
- Worked- Seville (1909) Spent the year in Seville.
- Worked- Gaylordsville, CT (1913-1931) He completed his summer home in 1923 and co-founded the Kent Art Association in 1924. After his wife’s death in 1931, he left to briefly live with his brother and then returned to New York City. He eventually sold his Gaylordsville property in 1939.
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Francis Luis Mora
Cultures
Geography
Seville, Spain (object created)
Process/materials
- oil paint
- canvas
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
- Dallas Art Association
- Art Students League (New York, NY)
- models
- costume (character)
- portrait
- peasant
- red
- white
- window
- seated
- shadows
- rain
- interior spaces
- sunlight
- girls
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
From 1910: Dallas Art Association [1]
[1] The Dallas Art Association is the predecessor to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. The name was abandoned in 1970. Works from this collection were transferred to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
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