Framed floral still life, painted with oil on canvas. Born in England, Alice Coutts is best known for her paintings of Indian children and shows the influence of one of her teachers, Grace Carpenter Hudson with whom her work was sometimes confused. She also did landscapes and still life. As a child, she was taken to Australia by her parents, Charles and Maria Hobbs, but her art studies began when she was a teenager in Paris at the Academie Julian under Jules Lefebvre. Her most productive time as an artist was during her first marriage, and committed to painting first hand, she traveled amongst California and Southwest Indians, camping with the Hopi of Northern Arizona and living with the Pomo Indians of northern California. Her works were part of the exhibition at the Mark Hopkins Institute lost in the fire of 1906. One of her paintings, The Jockey, was on the cover of Sunset Magazine in 1910. She exhibited work at the San Francisco Art Association and the Sequoia Club in San Francisco, and had one-person exhibits in 1910 and 1911 at Gump's Department Store.Size: 30 3/4 x 16 1/2 in. Sight Size: 25 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.