By Suzy Frelinghuysen
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Composition, 1940–42
Oil on paper collage on masonite, 16 x 11 3/4 inches (40.6 x 29.8 cm)
Framed dimensions: 26 x 21 3/4 inches
Signed right center: SF
Provenance
Frelinghuysen Morris Foundation;
Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Private collection until 2022
Suzy Frelinghuysen was born into a wealthy and prominent New Jersey family, and growing up, she was tutored in both art and music. While she showed an early talent for art, it was not her primary interest; as a child, she nurtured an nambition to become a professional singer. In 1935, she married George Morris, who came from an equally wealthy and distinguished New York family and had already established himself as an art collector, artist, and critic. Morris encouraged Frelinghuysen to paint and introduced her to a circle of affluent abstract artists, including the artist and collector Albert Gallatin. Gallatin owned a small but influential gallery, known as the Gallery of Living Art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
MaterialsMasonite, Paper, Oil