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Lot 45:
Flora Schofield (AM, 1871-1960) Painted Wood Block
Description
Attributed to Flora Itwin Schofield (also known as Flora Schoenfeld) (American, 1871-1960), double-sided carved wood block, one side with a floral still life and the other with a female nude, Provincetown style carved white line woodblock painted in color inks, early 20th Century, 11-7/8″ x 14″.
Flora Schofield was a sculptor, painter, and print maker and a major figure in the Modernist movement in the early 20th Century in both the US and Europe. She was known as the “Dean of Women Artists in Chicago.” She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and later taught Saturday classes there. In Provincetown, Massachusetts she studied with Charles Hawthorne, B.J.O Nordfeldt, and William Zorach. Later, Schofield moved to Paris where she lived for more than nine years. During that time she was associated with Andre Lhote, Albert Gleiza, Fernand Leger, Ozenfant, Natalia Goncharova, Gino Survage, Leopold Survage, and Serge Ferat. Her works have been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art (New York), Whitney Museum of American Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific Exposition, A Century of Progress, the Salon (Paris), Salon de Independants (Paris), Sur Independents (Paris), the Salons of America, the Society of Independent Artists (New York), the Wichita Museum of Art, Gallery Carmine (Paris), the National Arts Club Galleries, (New York), and the Marshall Fields Galleries (Chicago). Schofield’s work is also in the permanent collections of the Detroit Institute of Art, Illinois State Museum, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and the National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.).
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