Payne Fine Arts is proud to offer a still-life by Patty Thum, a circular oil painting of roses – yellow, white, pink and red – against a blue sky. Louisville, Kentucky, native Patty Thum (1853-1926) was one of the most influential figures in regional art from the Victorian period through the 1920s. She had a national audience thanks to popular lithographic reproductions of her flower paintings that appeared in newspapers and painting magazines. She also helped determine Louisville’s artistic agenda through her writings about art, primarily as a critic for the Louisville ...
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