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Francis Luis MoraForest Idyll Allegory drawingcirca 1900
circa 1900
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Francis Luis Mora is loved sketching and drawing and did so for almost every day of his career. This allegorical and very finished pencil drawing depicts a Faun in the forest. Possibly Mora was illustrating for a novel which accounts for the amount of detail. There are highlights of deep brown ink laid in in various spots and the drawing is framed in a fine, older ornate frame. A very appealing, fun and yet serious artistic work by the hand of one of America's beloved artists.
The figure is clearly allegorical and there are even symbolist faces in the forest which was not often an element Mora incorporated into his work. The highlighted areas may have been for reproductive purposes to have some areas print more strongly or his re-working elements for printing purposes. Some of our sketchbooks to which this work came from, had female forms in nature as well, albeit with less of an allegorical feel so they could have been a working through a book project.
- Creator:Francis Luis Mora (1874 - 1940, American)
- Creation Year:circa 1900
- Dimensions:Height: 13.25 in (33.66 cm)Width: 17.5 in (44.45 cm)
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- Condition:Drawing is in very good condition. Frame is older and has a deep patination but is in basically very good condition with new archival matting and glass.
- Gallery Location:Greenwich, CT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU141329422042
Francis Luis Mora
Francis Luis Mora was one of the great American artists of late 19th and early 20th centuries. His illustrations were found in numerous magazines and periodicals including Harper's Weekly, Scribner's, and Century Magazine. In 1903, alongside Robert Henri, Mora taught a class at Bayport on the South Shore of New York's Long Island and another class at Good Ground in 1904, both identified as continuations of Chase's Shinnecock School. Mora also taught and exhibited extensively at the Art Students League of New York. Born in Uruguay in 1874, his family moved to America when he was a child. His father, Domingo Mora, was a well-known Spanish artist who gave his son his early artistic training. Mora also attended the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School where he studied drawing and painting under Frank Benson and Edmund Tarbell. Later he studied under H. Siddens Mowbray at the Art Students League in New York City. Following the tradition of his contemporaries and mentors, Mora traveled to Europe to study the great paintings of the Old Masters. The influence of the Spanish Masters, especially Velazquez, is evident in Mora's choice of subject matter and style throughout his career. "Perhaps it is these very conflicting conditions in the life of Mr. Luis Mora that have evolved the unusual quality of his art, an art essentially Spanish in subject and feeling and wholly modern and American in expression…(Craftsm, 17:402)." Over two hundred of Mora's sketchbooks are conserved at the Archives of American Art. Mora was also commissioned to paint the portraits of Andrew Carnegie and President Warren G. Harding, both of which hang in the White House.
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