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Painter, Wall painter, b. 1869 - d. 1916

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    • HOWARD CUSHING Gertude Vanderbilt Whitney Painting
      Apr. 07, 2013

      HOWARD CUSHING Gertude Vanderbilt Whitney Painting

      Est: $5,000 - $7,000

      HOWARD GARDINER CUSHING (American, 1869-1916) "Portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney". Oil on aritst board. Signed Howard G. Cushing lower right. Back of artist board is signed in pencil; "Bought by Mrs. Delano 131 E. 36" and "G. Whitney in costume by H. G. Cushing". In good original condition and framed under glass. Painting measures 18" x 13 1/4". Frame measures 19 ¾" x 15". Depicts the famous New York art patron and museum founder in a fanciful Leon Bakst-designed costume. Most likely this portrait of Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney inspired the mural decorations Howard Cushing painted on the walls of Gertrude Whitney's studio. The studio, designed by William Adams Delano (1864-1960) of the architecture firm Delano & Aldrich, still survives with the Howard Cushing murals intact.A drawing by John Singer Sargent depicts Gertrude in the Leon Bakst costume and several photographers photographed her in the costume as well.Howard Cushing died in 1916 and Gertrude Whitney helped fund a memorial gallery designed by Adams Delano in Newport, R.I. The Cushing Memorial Gallery built in 1920 is part of the Newport Art Museum.Gertrude Whitney's still-intact Beaux-Arts style studio, built in 1913 on the Whitney family estate in Old Westbury, Long Island was designed by William Adams Delano, a friend of the family. Mrs. Whitney commissioned her life-long friend Howard Cushing to paint the murals in the curved stair-well. Cushing devised imaginative tropical flora and fauna at the lower level culminating in a portrait of Mrs. Whitney, dressed in her Bakst costume, greeting guest from her position on the wall opposite the top of the stairs. *From: The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art. By Patricia Hills and Roberta Tarbell.

      Myers Fine Art
    • Howard Gardiner Cushing (American 1869-1916)
      Apr. 22, 2007

      Howard Gardiner Cushing (American 1869-1916)

      Est: $2,000 - $3,000

      An Asian Fantasy signed 'Howard G. Cushing (lower right) oil on canvas 40 x 30in

      Bonhams
    • Howard Gardiner Cushing American, 1869-1916 BOY WADING IN RIVER
      May. 17, 2006

      Howard Gardiner Cushing American, 1869-1916 BOY WADING IN RIVER

      Est: $600 - $900

      Howard Gardiner Cushing American, 1869-1916 BOY WADING IN RIVER Signed Howard G. Cushing (lr) Oil on board 14 x 10 3/4 inches (35.6 x 27.25 cm) Estate of Robert Denning Estimate $600-900 Dirty, yellowed varnish. Minor frame rubbing.

      Doyle New York
    • HOWARD GARDINER CUSHING 1869-1915 THE OPEN CABINET
      May. 18, 2005

      HOWARD GARDINER CUSHING 1869-1915 THE OPEN CABINET

      Est: $25,000 - $30,000

      signed Howard G. Cushing, l.r. oil on canvas PROVENANCE Fred Cushing (the artist's grandson), circa 1905-06 Judge Carpenter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by 1916 Sale: Sotheby's, New York, May 28, 1987, lot 192, illustrated in color Acquired by the present owner at the above sale EXHIBITED (possibly) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 108th Annual Exhibition, February-March 1913, no. 469 (as The Wardrobe) Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Howard Gardiner Cushing: Memorial Exhibition, November 1916-January 1917, no. 9

      Sotheby's
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