Large Original Pastel Landscape Drawing by American artist Lucille Sinclair Douglass (1877-1935) | Pastel on Paper | Signed by the artist in the lower left corner | Custom matted and framed under glass | Dimensions: 37.5″ x 42.75″ | Provenance: From the estate of prominent interior designer Thomas Britt.

Lucille Sinclair DOUGLAS (1877-1935) Birth place: Tuskegee, AL Death place: Andover, MA Addresses: NYC/Shanghai, China Profession: Painter, illustrator, etcher Studied: ASL; Lucien Simon, Richard Miller, A. Robinson, in Paris; Italy; Spain; Holland. Exhibited: Salon d'Automne and Salon des Indépendents, Paris, 1911; Musée Guimet, Paris; etchings of ruins of Angkor (at request of the French Colonial Government), at the French Colonial Expo, Paris, 1931; Casson Gals., Boston 1931 (solo); Mus. Guimet, Paris; Brit. Mus., London; Salons of Am. Member: Société des Artistes Indépendents, Paris; Chicago SE; Soc. Am. Etchers; Philadelphia Pr. Club; Calif. SE; Shanghai AA; New Orient Soc.; Inst. Persian Art; India Soc. Arts & Letters. Work: MMA, Inst. & Mus. Hist. of Art, Albany; CGA; Mus. of FA, Montreal; private collections, U.S., Paris, China. Comments: Illustrator: The Autobiography of a Chinese Dog" and "A Chinese Mirror," by Florence Ayscough, pub. Houghton Mifflin, 1926. Lectures: Far East, Angkor. In 1920 she moved to Shanghai where she gained knowledge of China and the Orient, which became the subject matter of her paintings and illustrations. Also appears as Douglass. Sources: WW31; Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists.