Lillian Genth - Adagio [1900-09]

Lillian Genth - Adagio [1900-09], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

Lillian Genth (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1876 - New York City, 1953) is known for her paintings of female nudes in landscapes, which she painted at her summer home in the Berkshires. However, later in her career (1928), she abandoned that subject matter for scenes of her travels that included Spain, North Africa, Japan, China, Fiji, Bali, New Guinea, and Thailand where she was commissioned to paint a portrait of the King.

Lillian Mathilde Genth is an anomaly in the history of American Art. For an artist to have received so much attention, both critical and public, during her career and then to fall into almost complete obscurity is difficult to understand. How is it that an artist who received major national and international awards and citations, and who was included in over 230 exhibitions in a thirty year period, can become a mere footnote in the history of American art?

[Oil on canvas, 89.1 x 73.9 cm]