Portrait of a New York Debutante - Lucille B Harris 1944 reserved His nudes were never titillating

His nudes were never titillating and he always appeared to have great respect for his models and feminine beauty throughout his long career

It is an endless mystery to me that paintings of this quality and decorative potential

Rita Hayworth and Charlie Chaplin

the scion of two of New York’s wealthiest families

a young man loads her Louis Vuitton cases into a sea plane behind her as the New York skyline rises majestically beyond

Portrait of a New York Debutante - Lucille B Harris 1944 reserved His nudes were never titillating"I have spent more time researching this young lady than any other painting in years. I imagined that it was a very stylised portrait but found an old black and white image of the young socialite at a ball in 1945 and its a pretty good likeness! This is Lucille, the scion of two of New Yorks wealthiest families, in the flower of youth and in the greatest city in the largest country in the free world at the height of a global conflict. Despite her