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Portrait of Florence Hunn by J. Wellington Reynolds

Painting
J. Wellington Reynolds, "Portrait of Florence Hunn", no date - Oil on canvas, framed. Reynolds, a noted Chicago artist, trained in Paris and Chicago. At Ox-Bow, he was part of the "Tallmadge crowd". This painting, it is said once hung in the Art Institute of Chicago. Florence "Danny" Hunn was a well-known Chicago (and New York) interior designer who introduced "modern" design to Chicago in the 1920s. Locally, she lived in her Pier Cove Cottage she was affectionately called "Danny". They held a rather lavish court for a circle of friends we would now call gay and lesbian. Hunn was also an architect who designed a number of area cottages. The frame is believed to be by the Newcomb-Macklin Company of Chicago, a prominent manufacturer of hand-carved and gilded picture frames from 1883 until 1979. Newcomb-Macklin frames in the arts and crafts style are today regarded as antiques in their own right and are prized by dealers to lend an authentic look to period American paintings.
Oil painting of Florence Hunn outside on a sunny day with a sun hat and parasol
womanHat.jpg 171KB; Digital file on Jack Sheridan Drive 2021.72.02 screenshot from 2016 appraisal document in box 19 Florence Hunn

2012.09.01

Oil

Hunn, Florence Ely "Dannie" 1887-1984

Artworks

VanderJagt, Anna

Reynolds, Wellington J.

1920

Signed Name: W.J. Reynolds Signature Location: bottom Left

PaintingPortraitHunn, FlorencePortraitOx-Bow

31 in

32 in

Frame Size: 42l x 36.5w

Century of Progress Exhibit

Good

Reynolds, Wellington J.

Hunn, Florence Ely "Dannie" 1887-1984

Wellington Jarard Reynolds 1865 - 1949 Portrait of Florence Hunn c. 1915 | oil on board Notes: Wellington was born on a farm in New Lenox, Illinois. He entered the school of the recently estblished Art Institute of Chicago in the fall of 1885. In 1887, he left, with his wife, for Munich where he entered the Royal Academy. He also studied at the private Hollosy Academy. After the death of his wife, he married again, and enrolled at the Julien Academy in France and later at the Eole des Beaux-Arts. He returned to Chicago in 1898 where he bacame well-known as a portrait artist. After the death of his second wife, he joined the faculty of the Art Institute of Chicago where he taught until his retirement in 1938. This painting is a phenomenal example of Reynolds’ skill as a portrait artist! The sitter is Florence (Dannie) Ely Hunn, a well-known Chicago interior designer who introduced “modern” design to Chicago in the 1920s. Locally, she lived in her Pier Cove cottage. With her female partner, “Jims”, Florence held a rather lavish court for a circle of “artistic” friends. Collection: Saugatuck Douglas History Center Gift of: Grace Walz and Robert Malster Accession: 2012.09.01

Status: OK Status By: Anna VanderJagt Status Date: 2012-02-09

02/09/2012

08/06/2024