Ernest Majors was born in Washington, D.C. in 1864. He studied the Boston Artists such as Edmund Tarbell and Frank Benson. He studied at the Corcoran Gallery with William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League in New York City. He won his first award from the Hallgarten Art Scholarship for a free travel and a scholarship to the Academie Julian in Paris. He wanted to be a serious self-supporting artist.
He returned to Boston and his teaching position at the Cowles Art School. He sent paintings to the Paris Salon for exhibitions. Majors spent much of his off time at the famous Fenway Studios in Boston. In 1896 he joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Normal Art School where he taught for 46 years.
The painting his a single woman walking along a pond.
Portrait of a Woman
COLOR
Beige, Black, Blue, Brown, Champagne, Cream, Gray, Green, Pink, White
ITEM TYPE
Vintage
STYLE
Portrait
MEDIA
Canvas, Oil Paint
GENRE
American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture
ORIGIN
United States • American
WIDTH
14" (36 cm)
HEIGHT
19" (48 cm)
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