ARTIST: Aimee Lamb (Massachusetts, 1893 - 1989)
NAME: Portrait of Man - Snowstorm
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Missing few flakes of paint. Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light.
SIGHT SIZE: 24 x 17 inches / 60 x 43 cm
FRAME SIZE: 28 x 21 inches / 71 x 53 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
PROVENANCE: Auctioneer: Skinner, Date 2009-03-06, Lot 798
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
The artist Aimee Lamb was born in Boston MA on May 23, 1893 and died at her home in Boston's Back Bay MA. Feb. 4 , 1989. She was 95. Aimee Lamb was educated in art at the Winsor School (1905 - 1910) and the School of Fine Arts in Boston (1913 - 1917). She studied under artists Philip Hale and William James.
In the early 1920's she studied two summers in Dublin, N H. with Alexander James and Richard Meryman, and two more summers with the artist Charles Woodbury in Maine. In New York she studied under the portraiter artist Cecilia Beaux, and later (c. 1924) she traveled with her to Europe.
Miss. Lamb was daughter of Horatio Appleton Lamb (1850 - 1926) and Annie Lawrence Rotch (1857 - ?) She was niece of the artist Rose Lamb (1843 - 1927) and sister of the patron and philantropic contributor miss. Rosamond Lamb (Dec. 17,1898 - June 25, 1989).
Although she is better know for her philanthropic contribution to the arts community, Lamb's paintings and drawings have been represented in exhibitions with the Boston Institute of Modern Art, The Copley Society, The Boston Athenaeum and The National Museum of Women in the Arts, as well as in anumber of private collections.