Description:
Grace Carpenter Hudson (American, 1865-1937)
Guarding the Baby
Signed and dated "Copyright by G. Hudson 1905" l.r., signed, numbered and
inscribed "G.Hudson 286. Ukiah Cal." on the reverse.
Oil on board, 7 x 5 in. (17.7 x 12.7 cm),framed.
Condition: Surface grime.
N.B. In a short biography, the Grace Hudson Museum relates that "Grace was born to well-educated pioneer parents in Potter Valley, California. She showed an early talent for portraiture that was developed by professional training in San Francisco in the late 1870's. In 1891...she painted a portrait of an Indian child, National Thorn, that was first in a numbered series of over 684 oils, the last completed in 1935. Nearly all of her native subjects were local Pomo peoples."
Estimate $3,000-5,000