Society Portrait, signed and dated 1938 reserved The painting has a deckled

The painting has a deckled edge along the left side

largely kept at an affordable price level for our many interior designer clients who tend to arrive in a large van

Kulle became fascinated with Swedish folk culture

and feels very honest to me

I copied it and tried to emulate his terrifying and dynamic style

Society Portrait, signed and dated 1938 reserved The painting has a deckledSomehow portraits of women by women artists of the early twentieth century have a certain historical frisson. When this was painted in 1938, the Great War had been over for two decades and the societal changes it wrought had led to political and social freedoms that would have been unthinkable to many women at the turn of the century. Elsa would have known a world of corsets and stays in 1880s Boston, a lifetime away from the simple black evening