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Molly Luce
Mr. and Mrs. Charles and Allison Coolidge (Belmont)

1937

$15,000
£11,424.13
€13,167.98
CA$20,984.90
A$23,585.64
CHF 12,282.78
MX$286,859.70
NOK 157,173.20
SEK 149,046.51
DKK 98,277.10
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About the Item

Dated and titled on stretcher: "'37/ Mr + Mrs Chas. Coolidge/ Allison/ -Belmont". In 1929 Molly Luce and her husband, Alan Burroughs, moved from Garden Street on Beacon Hill in Boston to the suburb of Belmont. The Coolidges were a part of their circle of friends on Belmont Hill. Luce and Burroughs lived at 27 Wellington(?)] Lane, a short walk from the Coolidge house at 567 Concord Avenue. Throughout the 1930s, Luce painted many of her Belmont Hill neighbors, her husband's Harvard faculty associates and her circle of friends in Little Compton, R. I., where she and Burroughs began to summer in 1931.
  • Creator:
    Molly Luce (1896 - 1986)
  • Creation Year:
    1937
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 23 in (58.42 cm)Width: 35 in (88.9 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
  • Medium:
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  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Boston, MA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU397314090132

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