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1919-06-41 D

Print on white paper. Paper mounted to board. Image of a woman in profile wearing an evening dress and holding a fan in her hands. Print executed in black, pink, and yellow.

Penrhyn Stanlaws (1877-1957), a portrait painter and illustrator was born in Dundee, Scotland on March 19, 1877. Born Penrhyn Stanley Adamson, he adopted the pseudonym Penrhyn Stanlaws. After emigrating from Scotland to the United States in 1901, he used his artistic talent ton pay for four years at Princeton University (he had previously resided in the United States for short stints and worked as an illustrator - having images published in several popular publications). He then studied in Paris for three years at Academie Julian under Constant and Laurens. Returning to the United States in 1908, he established a studio in New York City and his illustrations of "Stanlaws' Girls" began to grow in popularity; eventually becoming as popular as those by Gibson and Flagg and appearing in such national magazines as Saturday Evening Post and Town and Country. Highly successful, he built the Hotel des Artistes in New York City which was at that time the largest studio building in the country. In the early 1940s he relocated to Los Angeles where he worked as a dramatist and motion-picture director. A fire in his studio took his life in Los Angeles on May 18, 1957.

• Stanlaws, Penrhyn, 1877-1957

16.5" x 13"

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