1923.2 F. Luis Mora, Portrait Mrs. George K. Meyer | DMA Staging Content Management System

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

When he painted this portrait in 1923, F. Luis Mora was a leading figure in the American art scene and his sitter had served as the President of the Dallas Art Association for fourteen years. Mrs. George K. Meyer (Sallie Griffis) continued to lead the DAA until 1926 and advocated for Texas artists until the end of her life in 1933. That year, Mora's painting, alongside Allie V. Tennant's bronze likeness of Meyer (1933.23), were on display in the DAA Gallery to commemorate decades of service to the Dallas arts community.

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 W. 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.

Adapted from

William Keyse Rudolph, DMA Label copy (1910.3), July 2008.

NOTES

Added the 1933 Memorial Exhibition (January 6 to April, 1933) to the exhibition history in TMS to correspond to the research in the object file.

Removed TMS object tag because rule exists.

Sue reviewed and approved of this draft. I am removing the routed tag and adding completed because the GDoc is being moved to Queta's to be reviewed folder. (2/13/2017)

added "earring" tag to test something for "explore by" query results, HAB, 10.9.2017

Catalogue essays specific to object

Artist/designers

Francis Luis Mora

Cultures

Geography

Produced- Dallas, Texas

Process/materials

oil paint

canvas

Historical periods

1920s America

Individuals

Mrs. George K. Meyer (Sallie Griffis Meyer)

Subject terms

patron

Dallas Art Association

woman

portrait

elderly

Realistic

RELATED OBJECTS

1933.23 Allie Tennant, Mrs. George K. Meyer.

PROVENANCE

1923: Dallas Art Association, purchase from the artist [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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General Description

When he painted this portrait in 1923, F. Luis Mora was a leading figure in the American art scene and his sitter had served as the President of the Dallas Art Association for fourteen years. Mrs. George K. Meyer (Sallie Griffis) continued to lead the DAA until 1926 and advocated for Texas artists until the end of her life in 1933. That year, Mora's painting, alongside Allie V. Tennant's bronze likeness of Meyer (1933.23), were on display in the DAA Gallery to commemorate decades of service to the Dallas arts community.

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 W. 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.