Lot 65082: MAUDE DREIN BRYANT (American, 1880-1946) Trees in

MAUDE DREIN BRYANT (American, 1880-1946) Trees in the Fall, circa 1915 Oil on panel 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm) Artist's label verso, numbered 140 This screen of trees with radiant sun-dappled autumn foliage composed against a backdrop of saturated green fields and blue hills is the work of Maude Drein Bryant, a landscape and still-life painter born in Wilmington, Delaware. A product of both the Acadèmie Colarossi in Paris and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she trained under Thomas Anschutz, William Merritt Chase, and Hugh H. Breckenridge (to whom her style was most indebted), she adopted the brilliant Post-Impressionistic palette and technique exemplified by the present work, Trees in the Fall.