Walter Ufer, Portrait of a Woman, oil on canvas
Auction Date: February 19, 2022
Sold for: $2,160
Lot: 142
(American, 1876-1936),
Portrait: Mrs. Walter Wardrop, 1916,
oil on canvas,
canvas: 34 x 27.5 inches, framed: 42 x 38 inches,
signed lower right,
Fenn Galleries (Santa Fe, NM) label affixed verso, with shipping label from Nedra Matteucci Galleries (Santa Fe, New Mexico), to Arthur P. and Beatrice K. Pacheco.
Provenance: This piece was first commissioned by Mrs. Walter Wardrop in 1916, where it was displayed at the Twenty-First Annual Exhibition of the Palette and Chisel Club, the Art Institute of Chicago, April 25 to May 8, 1916. Mrs. Walter Wardrop (Harriet Sullivan Wardrop) was born in Chicago in 1872 to Irish immigrants. In 1895 she married Walter Wardrop, who began his career in the bicycle industry and eventually became a publisher and authority on commercial vehicles in the early days of motoring. After her husbands death in 1925, Mrs. Wardrop moved to California and settled in Santa Monica. She died in 1951 and is buried in Colma, California. At some point the Fenn Galleries and Nedra Matteucci Galleries of Santa Fe, NM had the piece before it was sold to Arthur P. and Beatrice K. Pacheco (Mountain View, CA), the piece has been passed down by familial descent to current owner (San Francisco, CA).
Exhibition History: Twenty-First Annual Exhibition of the Palette and Chisel Club, the Art Institute of Chicago, April 25 to May 8, 1916. This painting was one of 5 works shown in the exhibition by Ufer, and is number 70 in the catalogue. The full image of the work is printed on page 11.
Nedra Matteucci label stored in a envelop and included in the lot.