untitled (beach scene)

Anne Estelle Rice, artist

1877–1959

untitled (beach scene), circa 1910–1912

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: board; oil

Dimensions:
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 26.7 x 41 cm
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 10 1/2 x 16 1/8 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Gift of Frank Pinet (class of '42) and family in memory of Winifred Meyer Pinet (Class of '55)

Accession number: 1997.0036

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Archive Label 1999:
Anne Estelle Rice grew up near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and worked initially as a fashion illustrator there. After she moved to Paris in 1905 with an assignment to illustrate fashion reviews, she began to paint as well. Rice exhibited her brightly colored, Fauve-style paintings at the Paris Salon d'Automne from 1908 through 1913. Upon returning to the United States in 1914-15, she could not find recognition, and she ultimately settled in England, where she painted still lifes and had some success as a costume and set designer.

This beach scene shows the influence of the Fauves on Rice in the immediacy with which she captures the forms of the women, children, the sky, beach, and water with just a few brush strokes. Also characteristic of the Fauves is her use of slightly heightened and unnatural color, which increases the expressive mood of the view.