Description: Oil on canvas painting that depicts a man in the artist's studio dressed in Spanish attire. A yellow cummerbund is wrapped around the waist of his white shirt, with a black cravat at his loose collar. There are jars on the table before him. His hand is placed on one of them. The man has an expression of deep contemplation and holds an unlit cigarette between his fingers..

History: A printmaker, painter, and commercial artist, Marion Huse created work that ranged from realism to abstraction and included portraits, figure subjects, landscapes, and floral still lifes. She traveled widely throughout New England, New York, Quebec, Europe, and the Western United States. She was also an innovative serigrapher, and her serigraphs and monographs were exhibited widely including a major exhibition at the Brockton Art Museum (now Fuller Craft Museum) in Massachusetts in 1985. The Museum owns a large collection of work by the artist. Huse was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, and studied in Boston from 1915 to 1919 at the New School of Design, and from 1919 to 1921 at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. She also studied plein-air painting during the 1920s in Provincetown with Charles Hawthorne at the Cape Cod School of Art. In 1925, she founded the Springfield, Massachusetts School of Art, where she taught and was administrator until 1940. She was a WPA artist during the Depression years, and had a summer studio in Pownal, Vermont, where she eventually settled permanently.

Provenance: N/A

Dimensions: Weight (Pounds & Ounces) = 8.5 | Height(in) = 44.25 | Width(in) = 36 | Depth(in) = 1.5

Size of Artwork(in): 40.25 x 32" sight.

Artist Name: Marion Huse

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Circa: Early 20th C.

Very mild surface grime on the canvas.