Sudduth Goff "Clara Taylor Spencer Houlihan" Oil on Canvas, c. 1950
Item Details
A Sudduth Goff (1882-1965) Clara Taylor Spencer Houlihan (1918-2014), oil on canvas, c. 1950. Goff was a native Kentuckian with roots in Harrison and Clark County, who was a graduate of Transylvania University and the Cincinnati Art Academy. He was active as a portrait painter in Louisville from 1918 to 1927; in Chicago 1927-1937; and after 1937 in New York, where he kept a studio at the prestigious Hotel des Artists. During all those years he frequently returned to paint in Kentucky. Clara Spencer Houlihan had known Goff all her life, sharing with him a love of the arts and local history. In a conspiratorial commission they both found quite amusing, she asked Goff to paint her portrait in the manner of Philip de Laszlo’s portrait of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, in the Royal Collection. Documentation of the portrait, and her account as told to the owner, is included. It is presented without glass nor mat in a carved medium stained wood frame with a wire to the verso for hanging.
Condition
Wear is commensurate with light use.
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Item #
16LEX128-061
