Ernest Majors, 1864 - 1950

SKU: Under $1500


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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