Lot 72: HENRY SALEM HUBBELL 1870 - 1949

HENRY SALEM HUBBELL 1870 - 1949 TEA TIME signed H.S. Hubbell , l.r. oil on canvas 32 1/2 by 22 in. (82.6 by 55.9 cm) Painted circa 1909.

Columbia, South Carolina, The University of South Carolina, McKissick Museum; Orlando, Florida, Orlando Museum of Art, The Figurative Paintings of Henry Salem Hubbell: An Elegance Rediscovered, August 1998-May 1999, no. 72, p. 44, illustrated p. 72

Jay Williams, "Henry Salem Hubbell," American Art Review, October 1998, p. 172, illustrated

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France 1910
George Mara, Paris, France
Sale: Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, June 2, 1983, lot 167, illustrated in color
Private Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Henry Salem Hubbell was born on Christmas day in 1870 in Paola, Kansas. His education began at the Art Institute of Chicago and continued on to the Academie Julian. Shortly thereafter in 1898-99, he enrolled in James Abbot McNeill Whistler's Academie Carmen in Paris. This year would prove transformative in Hubbell's career as he was greatly influenced by Whistler's strategic use of color and composition. Hubbell joined the American art community living in Giverny in 1908. He had tremendous success while living there but returned to America in 1910 for the rest of his career.