1887
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Dominant colour
Flower Girl in Holland is a 1887 oil by George Hitchcock, a American Impressionism work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
The painting shows a girl in traditional Dutch clothing, surrounded by flowers. She's standing in a field, with a simple dress and a big hat. The artist, George Hitchcock, liked to paint women in traditional clothes, often with flowers, and he lived in the Netherlands for a while, which inspired his work. You can learn more about the artist's style by looking at the work of artist: George Hitchcock
After studying in London, Paris, and at the Hague, George Hitchcock settled in 1884 in the Netherlands, living and working for twenty years in Egmond. Attracted to the region’s landscape and peasant communities, the artist specialized in scenes featuring women in traditional dress set among voluptuous, blooming flowers. Here, Hitchcock revised the environment behind the Dutch flower seller, editing out other houses nearby in favor of a bucolic vista. Although he employed academic techniques such as fine modeling of his figures, Hitchcock nevertheless earned a reputation as a daring colorist…
George Hitchcock, Egmond-aan-Zee, Holland, 1887; Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago, by 1888; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1888.
Chicago, Sixteenth Annual Inter–State Industrial Exposition, Sept. 5–Oct. 20, 1888, cat. 203, as Flower Seller, Holland. Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings in the New Galleries, Apr. 5, 1890, cat. 14. Art Institute of Chicago, Room XIII, Collection of Paintings from Various Sources, Aug. 1890, cat. 2. Art Association of Richmond, IN, Ninth Annual Exhibition of the Art Association of Richmond, Indiana, June 6–20, 1905, cat. 50, as Flower Girl in Holland. Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Paintings by Famous Victorian Painters, Nov. 7–Dec. 3, 1938, as Holland…
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George Hitchcock (September 29, 1850 – August 2, 1913) was an American painter, born in Providence, Rhode Island, and was mostly active in Europe, notably in the Netherlands.
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