ESTHER HUNT VINTAGE PRINT ASIAN CHINESE GIRL WITH FLOWERS ORIGINAL FRAME 15\"
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ESTHER HUNT VINTAGE PRINT ASIAN CHINESE GIRL WITH FLOWERS ORIGINAL FRAME 15\":
$49.95
Selling a charming vintage print by the beloved artist Esther Hunt. Size including frame is 10\" x 15\" . This lovely little print depicts an asian girl in yellow traditional attire holding what appear to be jonquils or daffodils. She is looking away from the viewer pensively. The background shows large leafy plants and exotic birds. This print is in it\'s original, handpainted frame. Frame is black with gold trim with dainty pink flowers painted on corners and bottom. Some of the paint has worn from the frame. This could to touched up with gentle dabbing of permanent marker, but I will leave that for the new owner to decide. Frame has original cardboard backing which is solid and in good condition, and a brown paper backing which is fragile and flaking apart. The paper backing could be removed if desired. Even the original shop label from the store in San Francisco (a city where Esther Hunt lived for many years) is intact, probably 75+ years old. In the future it will likely become more difficult to find these prints in their original condition. Take advantage of this opportunity to purchase this charming piece of history at a reasonable price.
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About the artist, Esther Hunt:
EstherAnna Hunt was born in Nebraskain 1875. Shemoved to Californiain 1881 and she grew up on a ranch there. From 1896-1900 she worked as anartist in Los Angeles. By 1901 she had moved to San Francisco to studyart at the Mark Hopkins Institute. To finance herart studies, she began painting San Francisco Chinatown subjects which she sent to a dealer in New Yorkwhoreadily sold them. After studying portraiture with William M. Chase in New Yorkfrom 1905-06, she continued her studies in Paris.While in Paris,her portrait of her sister was hung in the Paris Salon. Upon returning to the USA, she lived again in Los Angeles andSan Francisco; moving to Greenwhich Village New York in 1927.Duing the 1930\'s and 1940\'s she returned to finish her career in San Francisco.Her oils, watercolors, etchings, andcolored ceramic figurines were very popular with the general public during herproductive years, and were reproduced commercially for postcards, calendars,prints, busts, etc. Hunt was very fond of the artistically-created andindividually-named \"children\" she would never have in real life.After a stroke ended her career, she resided in the Santa Ana (CA) Rest Home.Unmarried, she died there on March 4, 1951. Member: Laguna Beach Art Ass\'n. Exhibited: Panama California Expo (San Diego), 1915 (goldmedal); San Francisco Art Ass\'n, 1916. Works held: California Historical Society.
ESTHER HUNT VINTAGE PRINT ASIAN CHINESE GIRL WITH FLOWERS ORIGINAL FRAME 15\":
$49.95