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Guy Pene Du Bois
Dining Out, 1918
Guy Pene du Bois, a multitalented modernist painter and critic, studied with turn-of-the-century America's two leading art teachers, William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri, whose work is displayed nearby. Descended from a venerable Louisiana Creole family, Pene du Bois is best known for his often biting depictions of upper-class urban society, both at home and abroad. This work, with its milder social commentary, reveals the artist's fascination with stylized "faces and forms." |