Lot 82: HARRY MILLS WALCOTT

HARRY MILLS WALCOTT 1870 - 1944 THE COTILLION signed HM Walcott , l.r. 24 by 44 in. (61 by 111.8 cm.) Painted circa 1910

San Francisco, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915 (Silver Medal winner)
Rome, n.d.

Mrs. Anabel Walcott (the artist's wife), Coronado, California
Mabel Kearney, Coronado, California, (acquired as a bequest from the above)
By descent in the family from the above (great-grandmother of the present owner)

"The Cotillion" was inspired by Miss Kathryn Simonds' dance class in Newark, New Jersey, not far from where Walcott kept his summer studio just south of the city. Fifteen young terpsichoreans, all members of the dance class, actually posed for the artist. After its completion, Walcott exhibited the picture in his studio for several months for the benefit of his sitters and neighbors.