Lily Harmon (American, 1912-1998), "Young Woman with Bouquet of Flowers", 1943, oil on canvas laid on masonite, signed and dated lower right, 24 1/8 in. x 20 1/8 in., framed, overall 30 3/4 in. x 26 7/8 in. x 2 1/4 in. Note: Lily Harmon was born in 1912 in New Haven, Connecticut. She studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts (a branch of the university that was co-ed at the time), the Art Students League of New York and the Acad?mie Colarossi in Paris. In 1944, she had her first solo exhibition in New York at the American Artists Gallery, which was around the time she met millionaire, Joseph Hirshhorn, whom she married in 1945 and with whom she adopted two daughters. They divorced in 1956. Harmon?s works have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and she has artwork in public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Hirshhorn Museum. She was also an illustrator of books by notable authors such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Edith Wharton, Franz Kafka and Thomas Mann. Ref.: Smith, Roberta. ?Portraitist and Book Illustrator.? The New York Times. Feb. 14, 1998. www.nytimes.com. Accessed May 6, 2024.

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