“Mrs. Brumback paints many subjects with equal facility – marines, flowers, and landscapes. She likes to turn from one subject to another, and from one way of working to another, to keep her viewpoint fresh and to broaden the scope of her abilities.”

- "Mrs. Brumback's New Gallery," American Art News, December 23, 1922, p. 2

Louise Upton Brumback was born in Rochester, New York, and was greatly influenced by William Merritt Chase at his Summer Art School in Shinnecock, Long Island. Brumback ultimately settled in Kansas City, Missouri, and exhibited there for the first time in 1915, when she was awarded the first Moore Prize given to artists of Kansas City. She spent many summers painting in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and made several painting trips to California. In 1920, she moved East and divided her time between Gloucester and New York City. 

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Provenance:

Collection, Holyoke, Massachusetts

With Vose Galleries, Boston, inventory no. 28406, August 1986

To private collection, Tucson, Arizona, November 1988 to June 1989

With Vose Galleries, Boston, inventory no. 29523, June 1989

 To R. H. Love Galleries, Chicago, Illinois, August 1991

 To private collection, Duxbury, Massachusetts, by 2019

Inscription:

(right stretcher in blue) LOUISE BRUMBACK

Labels:

1. Previous Vose Galleries label, inventory no. 28406
2. Previous Vose Galleries label, inventory no. 29523
3. R. H. Love Galleries, Chicago, Illinois, with painting description