Permanent Collection Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID |
1986.15147 |
Collection |
Painting Collection |
Title |
Daydreams |
Date |
1914 |
Artist |
Alice Ruggles Sohier (1880-1969) |
Signature |
Alice Ruggles Sohier -1914- |
Description |
Alice Ruggles Sohier was a Massachusetts-based portrait, still life, and landscape painter who studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School under Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862-1938). Considered one of "The Tarbelittes," students of the master who painted both Impressionistic landscapes and naturalistic interiors, Sohier was also influenced by the art and culture of Japan. In this painting, Sohier not only paints her subject in a kimono, but the artist also adopts common Japanese compositional and stylistic elements including the use of decorative patterns, flattened forms, and an unconventional perspective. Referred to as Japonisme, a term coined by French art critic Philippe Burty in 1872, artists like Sohier embraced eastern influences thereby transforming traditional Western artistic traditions and paving the way to Modernism. |
Medium |
Oil, Canvas |
Technique |
Painted |
Culture |
American |
School |
American Impressionism, Naturalism |
Place of Origin |
Concord, Massachusetts, United States |
Credit Line |
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Harrison and Mr. and Mrs. Ayers Hay |
People |
Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur and Hay, Mr. and Mrs. Ayers |
Search Terms |
American Art American Artists American Impressionism American Paintings Clothing / Dress Concord, Massachusetts Female Artists Figures, Women Flowers Interior Scenes Japonisme Kimonos Naturalism Oil Paintings Portraits Still Lifes Tarbellites Vases Windows |
Location |
On view in the Dr. and Mrs. Juan Lacerda Hallway Gallery, 2nd Floor |