Late 1800s - early 1900s floral oil painting by art teacher?

Here's a story. I found this at the Goodwill for $7. I liked it and purchased. There's a businnes card on the verso stating an address and name. The front was signed with just the last name. The card had the full name. I googled the name and after some time a had traced the artist from the East all the way to Colorado. I found a phone number for her and decided to give it a try and call. A young lady answered and I told her my story about the painting and she told me that I had the right lady, it was her grandmother. I spoke to the grandmother for awhile and I described the painting but she didn't remember it. She gave me an email address so I sent some images. She had painted it back in the 70s. She asked what I paid for it and I told her $7. She told me that was a big steal! That was her profession. She was an artist. She had art in shows, her own gallery. Within time, her hands didn't allow her to paint, so she stopped. She said the rest of her paintings she didn't sell, hang on her walls in her house.

 

Good for you!

 

WOW Bakers, great research, you are awesome

Armando, about 5-6 years ago my boyfriend bought a huge painting from a garage sale,its so big it covers half my eBay wall.
I was curious and Googled the artist's name and found she is a clinical Psychologist. I emailed her and she responded.
Then come to find out,she lives in the same neighborhood where I grew up,such a small world.
This is one of her emails to me I would like to share

Hi Linda,
Thank you so much for sending me a picture of my painting. It was so meaningful to see, especially since I do not have any of my earlier work. I am 50 today and I was 17 when I did that painting. I painted it for my best friend Larry who moved to San Francisco. I lived with him and he was very generous with me and I wanted to give him a special gift and I was a poor student. He loved movies and the painting represented the 20th Fox Logo of many years ago. Larry hung in our apartment in Sherman Oaks and sadly him and I lost touch. I imagine he gave the painting to someone in LA before he moved up north.

I also only paint for family and friends and manly for me. I related to your process very much. Thanks for sharing it all with me. I have an 86 year old father with late stage parkinson. I am sorry to hear about your mother. I am currently painting my father -- I have mostly done surreal portraits and a few abstracts.

It has been a pleasure to meet you!

All the best,
Stacy

 

That's a very nice painting. I love it!! I've always had a huge "crush" on the way the ladies dressed like that, so elegant and beautiful! At one point, I think I might had been part of that era. I keep having a dream of me as kid, but different looking, playing with some other kids in steeple in an old victorian home. I LOVE old victorian homes and such.

 

I found more information about Anna that is really cool.

She was a Worthy Matron O.E.S with the Martha Chapter in Washington DC.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1915-08-15/ed-1/seq-18/

There's an article about the Easter Star honoring Mrs. Harvey.

I'm still trying to find more. But it's cool to find information about her being. A well known individual in that society.

 

I just read that a Worthy Matrin was the Head of the Chapter, like a WM was.

So this is a lady who was in great charge if the Martha Chapter.

 

'Madame' in French is plain old 'Mrs.".

No dames involved. 'Dame' in Britain is a title - female equivalent of a knighthood. (Or a funny old lady in a pantomime played by a male actor...)

'Mademoiselle' (abbreviated as 'Mlle.') is 'Miss'.