Children by the Birdcage
William Robinson Leigh (Falling Waters 1866 - New York 1955)
Lot-No. 468
Before 1896. Oil/wood. 26,5 x 20,5 cm. Lo. le. sign. Wm R. Leigh. Tiny pigment losses. - Provenance: Collection Paul Quitt, Weimar; thence by descent. - US-American painter. L. began his training as a painter with Hugh Newell in Baltimore and then studied at the Munich Academy from 1883-95. He initially earned his living as an illustrator. In 1906 he traveled to New Mexico for the first time. Scenes and landscapes of the Wild West were the main reason for his fame. In 1926 and 1929, he accompanied expeditions to Africa and used these motifs to create murals for the Museum of Natural History in New York. Mus.: New York, Long Island, Oklahoma, Dublin a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit.
William Robinson Leigh: Children by the Birdcage
William Robinson Leigh (Falling Waters 1866 - New York 1955)
Children by the Birdcage
Lot-No. 468
Before 1896. Oil/wood. 26,5 x 20,5 cm. Lo. le. sign. Wm R. Leigh. Tiny pigment losses. - Provenance: Collection Paul Quitt, Weimar; thence by descent. - US-American painter. L. began his training as a painter with Hugh Newell in Baltimore and then studied at the Munich Academy from 1883-95. He initially earned his living as an illustrator. In 1906 he traveled to New Mexico for the first time. Scenes and landscapes of the Wild West were the main reason for his fame. In 1926 and 1929, he accompanied expeditions to Africa and used these motifs to create murals for the Museum of Natural History in New York. Mus.: New York, Long Island, Oklahoma, Dublin a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit.
