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![Edwin Lord Weeks
America, 1849-1903
The Hour of Prayer at Moti Mushid (The Pearl Mosque), Agra, ca. 1888-89
A leading "Orientalist" painter, illustrator, photographer, writer, explorer, and collector, Edwin Lord Weeks was the first known American artist to visit India. Born in Boston and trained in Paris, the inveterate traveler was particularly drawn in Ahmadabad, the principal city of the western state of Gujarat, famed for its 15th or 16th-century mosques and tombs with their intricate teak and sandstone architectural decorations.
On his first trip to India, Weeks encountered the American painter-cum-designer Lockwood de Forest, an avid admirer and promoter of South Asian art and craft. An early business colleague of Louis Comfort Tiffany, de Forest had recently re-established the Ahmedabad [sic] Wood Carving Company in partnership with prominent local merchant banker Dalparbhai Maggunbhai Hutheesign. The House of Prayer at Moti Mushid (The Pearl Mosque), Agra, housed in its original frame designed by de Forest, dates from Weeks's second India excursion. It was awarded a Gold Medal at the 1889 Paris Salon, where the artist's work created a public sensation.](/Graphlib/GraphData10.nsf/Images/2010_VA_VMFA_American_0160/$File/VMFAUS_100530_0016.JPG) |
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![Boris Lovet-Lorski
Torso, ca 1930
The lure of classicism, which shaped the work of earlier generations of American artists, endured into the 20th century. Lovet-Lorski's sleek Torso, which features the streamlined contours of the contemporary Art Deco aesthetic, nevertheless recalls the ancient past. During his lengthy residency in Paris, the artist had ample opportunity to admire antiquities on display at the Louvre Museum -- including the armless goddess popularly known as the Venus de Milo. In a statement about his 1939 solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Lovet-Lorski explained that his work offered "a new note of classicism... in [the] pure Greek sense of the word. Not naturalism, the stylization of the human body carried to such a degree of perfection that it creates real life, more real than the life we actually live."](/Graphlib/GraphData10.nsf/Images/2010_VA_VMFA_American_0160/$File/VMFAUS_100530_1127.JPG) |
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