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Zula Kenyon
My Luv’s Like a Red, Red Rose
1914

About the Item

Enchanting, dream-like, and romantic, American illustrator Zula Kenyon's early 20th century portraits offer up a soft, supple, and genteel look at the Edwardian woman. This original pastel on canvas illustration dates to 1914 and features a brunette beauty with milky-white skin draped in a pellucid gossamer shawl as she clutches a bouquet of blossoming roses to her breast. This piece was created for The Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company out of Joliet, Illinois and was first published as part of their 1915 calendar line. Kenyon began doing artwork for The Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company of Joliet shortly after it was founded in 1907. Due to the popularity of Kenyon’s illustrations, she was soon given an exclusive contract with them. She worked in a studio at the calendar company in Joliet for around 12 years before moving out west, due to health problems. Kenyon completed more than 200 calendar illustrations for Gerlach-Barklow. Many were of pretty women holding bouquets of flowers. Kenyon continued producing artwork for calendar images into the late 1930s. This illustration comes from the collection of esteemed illustration art collector Norman Platnick. This pastel shows scattered surface wear including soiling along the top margin, several separate scattered punctures in the canvas and light surface soiling. It is framed behind glass in a beautiful period frame with gesso ornamentation of gilded dragonflies, butterflies, and leaves. Included in the sale are two published examples of this illustration: a 1919 calendar and an advertising hand fan. The title of the piece, "My Luv's Like a Red, Red Rose", comes from the 1794 song in Scots by Robert Burns of a similar name. The poem in its entirety reads: O my Luve's like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in june; O my Luve's like the melodie That’s sweetly play'd in tune; As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a’ the seas gang dry; Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi’ the sun; I will luve thee still, my dear, While the sands o’ life shall run. And fare thee weel, my only Luve And fare thee weel, a while! And I will come again, my Luve, Tho’ it were ten thousand mile. The song is highly evocative, including lines describing rocks melting with the sun, and the seas running dry. Burns may have been inspired by the concept of deep time put forward a few years earlier by geologist James Hutton in his Theory of the Earth in 1789. Hutton and Burns were contemporaries, and would have mixed in similar circles in Edinburgh. Framed dimensions: 24" x 30" Image dimensions: 17.75" x 22.5"

Creator:
Zula Kenyon (1873 - 1947)
Creation Year:
1914
Dimensions:
Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Pastel
Movement & Style:
Art Nouveau
Period:
1910-1919
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Minneapolis, MN
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU12226999062

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