Arthur Watson Sparks Oil Painting "Street in Paris"

Item Details

Arthur Watson Sparks (American; 1871 – 1919)
Street in Paris
Oil painting on board
Signed to upper left

An antique oil painting on board titled Street in Paris by Arthur Watson Sparks (American; 1871 – 1919). This piece depicts a mother and two children walking down a city street to the foreground with additional figures visible in the shade of multistory architectural structures rendered in muted shades of greens, blues, cream, and ochre. It is presented in a distressed gilt frame with wire to the verso. This piece is initialed ‘AS’ to the upper left corner.

Arthur Watson Sparks, born in 1871 in Washington, D.C. trained as an architect and studied art in the evenings at the Corcoran Art School. He later studied art at Académie Julian and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, France after winning a design competition in 1898 a proposed Hall of American Inventions to be built at the 1900 Paris Expo. He taught for eleven years at the Carnegie Technical Schools until his death in 1919.

Provenance
Loaned to The Westmoreland County Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. Cellarius for the exhibition Arthur Watson Sparks: American Impressionist, December 7, 1963 – January 21, 1964

Dimensions

- measurement of piece in frame.

Item #

18COL150-167