Oil on canvas. 640x930 mm; 25x36 1/2 inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto.
Ex-collection the estate of the artist, with the ink stamp on the stretcher verso; David David Gallery, Philadelphia, with the ink stamp on the stretcher verso; private collection, New Jersey.
Born in Watertown, Connecticut, Stoddard (1883-1976) attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (where she studied under William Merritt Chase). During World War I she worked as a combat artist on the European front depicting soldiers and French refugees. She is known primarily as a portraitist who depicted Philadelphia socialites, but she also painted and etched landscapes and seascapes. Many of those works depict the scenery on Monhegan Island in Maine, where she rented and eventually bought her cousin Rockwell Kent's (1882-1971) cottage and studio.
