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JANE BYRD McCALL WHITEHEAD; Oil on canvas

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JANE BYRD McCALL WHITEHEAD (American 1861-1955); Oil on canvas of the orchard at Arcady, the Whiteheads estate in Montecito, Calif., ca. 1901; Framed; Provenance: Estate of Peter Whitehead, son of Jane and Ralph Radcliffe-Whitehead; Ref.: ''Byrdcliffe: An American Arts & Crafts Colony,'' Cornell University, 2004, for photograph of the property, and other painting by J. Whitehead; Unsigned; Canvas: 8 3/4'' x 15''

Excellent condition Note: Jane studied painting at the famed Académie Julian in Paris. She made many paintings of the hills around their Montecito home, often accompanied by her artist friends like Leonard Lester, Birge Harrison, and Bolton Brown. Another example of her style is reproduced in ''Byrdcliffe; An American Arts and Crafts Colony'' 2004, Cornell page 187, catalogue #79. A photograph of the Arcady orchard viewed from almost the same vantage point as that of Jane's painting is reproduced in the same catalogue on page 18 (fig. 3.)

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