Lucy Turner Joy
- Artist
- Anders Leonard Zorn, Swedish, 1860–1920
- Depicted
- Lucy Barlow Turner Joy, American, 1871–1948
- Date
- 1897
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- made in
- United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Paintings
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 217
- Dimensions
- 24 1/4 x 30 1/4 in. (61.6 x 76.8 cm)
framed: 37 5/8 in. x 44 in. x 3 3/4 in. (95.6 x 111.8 x 9.5 cm) - Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Rights
- Contact Us
- Object Number
- 97:1917
NOTES
The Swedish artist Anders Zorn enjoyed great commercial success as a painter of the rich and famous in fin-de-siècle America. In the mid-1890s he visited St. Louis where he received commissions to paint several prominent notables including the sitter here who was the wife of a local cotton broker, Duncan Joy. The painting highlights Zorn’s virtuoso Impressionist brushwork. The sitter relaxes on a green armchair while her left hand plays with a ribbon on the sleeve of her dress.
Provenance
- 1917
Lucy Turner Joy (b.1871), Jamestown, RI, USA; St. Louis, MO, acquired from the artist [1]
1917 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Lucy Turner Joy [2]
Notes:
[1] The sitter in this portrait, Lucy Turner Joy, lent the picture to the Museum prior to the Museum purchasing the work from her in 1917. The start date of the loan is not known [letters to and from Lucy Turner Joy dating from August 24 - December 31, 1917, Robert A. Holland Director's Correspondence, Archives, Saint Louis Art Museum].
[2] Minutes of the Administrative Board of Control of the City Art Museum, October 26, 1917.
Lucy Turner Joy (b.1871), Jamestown, RI, USA; St. Louis, MO, acquired from the artist [1]
1917 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Lucy Turner Joy [2]
Notes:
[1] The sitter in this portrait, Lucy Turner Joy, lent the picture to the Museum prior to the Museum purchasing the work from her in 1917. The start date of the loan is not known [letters to and from Lucy Turner Joy dating from August 24 - December 31, 1917, Robert A. Holland Director's Correspondence, Archives, Saint Louis Art Museum].
[2] Minutes of the Administrative Board of Control of the City Art Museum, October 26, 1917.