
Richard Delafield
1910 · oil paint
Accurate: 86.4 x 68.6 cm (34 x 27")
National Portrait Gallery

Charles Courtney Curran (1861, 1942) painted sun-drenched figurative compositions in an American Impressionist manner, placing women in open-air settings against luminous skies and mountain landscapes. His canvases are characterized by high-keyed light, airy atmospheric effects, and a consistent attention to the relationship between the human figure and expansive natural space. The work sits within the broader tradition of American plein-air painting of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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