Lot 554: JAMES MADISON STONE (American 1841-1930)

JAMES MADISON STONE (American, 1841-1930) A SUMMER DREAM signed J. M. Stone and inscribed Boston 1890, l.r.; oil on canvas in original carved giltwood frame; 44 x 34 inches Exhibited: World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

frame outer dimensions: 52 1/2 x 62 1/2 inches; craquelure; not lined

Includes original Exhibition label from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. This painting hung in the North Corner of the Palace of Fine Arts. "Much admired are J. M. Stone's 'Leukopis' and 'A Summer Dream'...both figures are somewhat scantily draped, with flesh tints sufficiently pronounced, 'A Summer Dream', representing a brown-haired maiden lost in reverie, and in reclining posture, with eyes half closed and slightly parted lips, one hand resting on her bosom and the other holding in her lap a cluster of roses." Excerpt from "The Book of the Fair", by Hebert Bancroft, 1893; pg. 678-679