64.5" ht. x 34.5" wd. (framed). An oil on canvas, full standing portrait of a girl by Mary Curtis Richardson (American/California, 1848-1931).  Depicting a girl in colorful garb, full standing in profile, signed to the lower right.  Remarkably, the clothing she wears, along with the cap in her hand, are present and to be sold with the painting, each article in a fine state of preservation.  Dorothy Louise Nordwell (American, born 1901) lived in California, a prominent family of Swedish descent, and perhaps the clothing was an homage to her ancestry.  A portrait of her brother, Alfred, is also present in the sale.

Mary Curtis Richardson was hailed as the "Mary Cassatt of the West", a tribute to her isolated rearing as an artist in California and her natural bent toward impressionism.  While she had some training in New York, her family moved to California in the 1850s in pursuit of the gold rush.  Her favored subjects were portraits, often of children, with a very loose execution and reminiscent of Sargent, Whistler, Chase, and others who she encountered from the late 19th and early 20th century.  This is a particularly fine and large example of her most mature work.  While undated, it was likely executed from 1910-1915.

Some minor spots of flaking to paint, in face, and on arm.  Otherwise, the work is in good condition, has never been lined.