Portrait of Walter Emerson Baum, 1904
Photo courtesy of Mercer Museum/Bucks County Historical Society
Vital Statistics
Oil on canvas, 12 x 8 inchesUnsigned
Collection of John Ambrose
Commentary
In 1904, when Walter Emerson Baum was nineteen years old and had only the year before begun his six years of training with Trego, the artist proposed that he and the Baum should paint each other’s portraits. The finished products were, of course, quite different and no doubt provided Trego several opportunities to critique what Baum had done in comparison to his own handling of similar painterly problems. Both portraits survive. Trego’s portrait of Baum is in a private collection and Baum’s somewhat heavy-handed portrayal of Trego is part of the collection of the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.Provenance
Alderfer Auction Gallery, 2004, to current owner.Exhibitions
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, James A. Michener Art Museum, June 3-Oct 2, 2011: "So Bravely and So Well: The Life and Art of William T. Trego."Reproductions
The painting appeared as an illustration in Helen Hartman Gemmill, “The Artist with the Paralyzed Hands,”Antiques (November 1983), p. 999.Condition
The painting is in very good condition.< Portrait of Martha Anders Dowlin, 1904 Flora Baum in Coat and Hat, Seated, Full Figure and Head Vie... >