Frederick Carl Frieseke

American, 1874 - 1939

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American Impressionist painter (1874-1939)

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Dressing Room

Frederick Carl Frieseke · 1922 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2016.23.3

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Peace

Frederick Carl Frieseke · 1917 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.13

Frederick Carl Frieseke, Memories, 1915, oil on canvas, Gift of Frances Frieseke Kilmer, 1969.5.1

Memories

Frederick Carl Frieseke · 1915 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1969.5.1

Shown from the lap up, a woman looks down at a basket of flowers held on her lap in this square painting. The woman’s body is angled to our right, and her head tips down in that direction. The woman’s skin is pale, nearly white-colored and shaded with icy blue except for her faintly flushed cheeks and pink lips. Her brown hair, which is pulled up and back, and her bangs are shaded with violet purple. A necklace of pale turquoise-green beads hangs around her neck. The dress has a white bodice with a straight neckline and a full pearl-white skirt, which are also shaded with pale blue and purple. Her jacket has three-quarter length sleeves and is striped with indigo blue and white. The oval basket is tipped up to our right, suggesting that one knee is crossed over the other. The woman’s right hand, to our left, nestles among the flowers, and she holds the stem of a white flower with her other hand. She wears a gold band on the ring finger of that hand. Her armchair has a wood frame painted white with a rounded back, which is upholstered in mauve-pink and white stripes. The floor is lilac purple, and the wall above is patterned with purplish-pink and white flowers and green leaves against an amethyst-purple background. The entire painting is created with blended strokes, giving it a soft look, and has a frosty blue and pale purple cast. The artist signed the work in the lower left corner, “F.C. Frieseke.”
Frederick Carl Frieseke, The Basket of Flowers, c. 1913/1917, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.147

The Basket of Flowers

Frederick Carl Frieseke · c. 1913/1917 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.147

Bibliography

1912

  • MacChesney, Clara. "Frederick Carl Frieseke - His Work and Suggestion for Painting from Nature." Arts & Decoration 3 (November 1912): 13-15.

1968

  • Weller, Allen S. "Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Opinions of an American Impressionist." Art Journal 28 (Winter 1968): 160-165.

1974

  • Domit, Moussa M. Frederick Frieseke, 1874-1939. Exh. cat. Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, 1974.

1982

  • Kilmer, Nicholas, and Ben L. Summerford. A Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of F. C. Frieseke. Exh. cat. Maxwell Galleries, Ltd., San Francisco, 1982.

1984

  • Gerdts, William H. "Giverny: The Second Generation." In American Impressionism. New York, 1984.

1990

  • Chambers, Bruce C. Introduction to Frederick C. Frieseke: Women in Repose. Exh. cat. Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, 1990.

1996

  • Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 227-228.