Society Portrait, signed and dated 1938 reserved a bright and promising student

a bright and promising student she married soon after graduation and moved to Cornwall never to be heard of again

Medium Details: Oil pastel

"I met Emily via a mutual friend and she asked me to paint her portrait

This painting is currently with our framers so will be ready to ship in approximately three weeks' time

Kulle became fascinated with Swedish folk culture

Society Portrait, signed and dated 1938 reserved a bright and promising studentSomehow portraits of women by women artists of the early twentieth century have a certain historical frisson. When this was painted in 1938, the Great War had been over for two decades and the societal changes it wrought had led to political and social freedoms that would have been unthinkable to many women at the turn of the century. Elsa would have known a world of corsets and stays in 1880s Boston, a lifetime away from the simple black evening