TitleDaffodils
Artist
Robert Lewis Reid
(1862 - 1929)
Daten.d.
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 42 × 44 in.
Framed: 45 1/4 × 47 5/16 × 2 3/4 in.
SignedSigned lower left: ***: ***
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, October 25, 1906
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1054-P
Label TextAt the end of the 1890s, Reid began to concentrate on painting young women outdoors in brilliant sunlight either carrying or surrounded by flowers. In these works, which are usually large in size, the figure appears almost to be pressing up against the picture plane. The vividly painted and joyously colored works are often named after flowers. In 1909 the art writer Henry A. Goodrich remarked that Reid "sees masses of color as color; and he feels the importance and the value of a beautiful line without regard for the object it bounds and defines. . . . in some of his draped figures, there is occasionally the feeling of a lack of body underneath the draperies . . . this is because he does not care for the modeling. It is beside the purpose, which is to show the effect of light upon the fabric, and it is of no importance to him whether the gown drapes a body or is flung over a table . . . ."
