CHARLES WALTER STETSON (1858 1911) Edward M Bannister at Wor

Sale 2678 - Lot 8

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CHARLES WALTER STETSON (1858-1911)
Edward M. Bannister at Work in Sketch Club.

Charcoal and ink on grayish blue laid paper, 1883. 310x240 mm; 12¼x9⅜ inches. Inscribed "Bannister at work in Sketch Club, 1/20/83" and initialed in charcoal, upper right.

Provenance
Frank Tolles Chamberlin.
Thence by descent to private collector, California and New Mexico.
Private collection, New Mexico, 2022.

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Charles Walter Stetson was a self-taught artist who grew up in Providence, Rhode Island. Stetson opened his own studio in the city and his network grew to include artist Edward M. Bannister, the sitter of this portrait and one of the few African American artists during that period to garner significant recognition for his works. Together they founded the Providence Art Club in 1880. In 1884, Stetson married Charlotte Perkins Gilman, writer and social reformer and niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Their daughter Katharine Beecher Stetson, born in 1885, also became an artist and married artist Frank Tolles Chamberlin. After his divorce from Gilman in 1894, Stetson moved to California with her cousin, poet Grace Ellery Channing. The couple settled permanently in Rome in 1901 and Stetson continued his successful career. The present portrait of Bannister was drawn shortly before Stetson's divorce and move to California.