Description: 7TH ANNUAL SUMMER SALE NOW *Price Shown is the Sale Price ORIGINAL AND VINTAGE .............GISELLA LOEFFLER .............'DECORATED LAMP', PORCELAIN, 18" x 10"................ This is a 18" x 10" Original and Vintage decorated lamp by the important Taos, New Mexico painter Gisella Loefler 1902-1977. The item decorated is a table lamp with flowers and burros. One of the bulbs in the sockets was marked Hungary so it is assumed the lamp was brought by the family of Loeffler to the US and she decorated it in Taos. Fine condition with hardware that needs restoring or replacing. Double boxed shipping. The Biography Follows: Born in Austria, Gisella Loeffler was noted as a Taos, New Mexico artist of decorative child folklore figures and illustration talents. Her cheerful Austrian and Mexican motifs were popular among her peers including Mabel Dodge Luhan. Loeffler signed her work simply "Gisella." From the Austrian Alps, she came with her family to the U. S. in 1908 and settled in St. Louis, Missouri where she, age five, was very disappointed in the drab appearance of her surroundings compared to where she had come from. Instead of flowers in her front yard, she found paved bricks. She studied art at Washington University, created posters for the St. Louis Post Dispatch and began working in batik on textiles. In the early 1920s, she married writer and music critic Edgar Lacher. An exhibition of Taos painter, Ernest Blumenschein, also from St. Louis, aroused her interest, and in 1933 she, divorced and moved with her two daughters to Taos where she lived the remainder of her life and found the happiness that had eluded her with her first husband. She married Frank Chase, a New Englander, and traveled extensively in Mexico and South America, and did paintings and illustrations of Navajo and Pueblo children in children's stories, and also did numerous murals for childrens' hospitals across the United States. A description of Loeffler and her home in Taos was provided by Claire Morrill in her book, A Taos Mosaic: "Color is her life. She wears it, peasant-like---raw yellows and purples, reds, high blues, shocking pinks and greens, all thrown together in full woolen skirts, gaily embroidered blouses and Latin-American shawls and rebosos. . . .Color runs uninhibited in her house studio, which might be mistaken for the Black Forest cottage of Hansel and Gretel." (131-132) Exhibited: California Watercolor Society, 1944 (floral still life). As ever this is guaranteed 100% money back, to be as represented.
Price: 350 USD
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
End Time: 2024-12-12T04:54:20.000Z
Shipping Cost: 25 USD
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Item Specifics
Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Artist: Gisella Loeffler
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Signed By: Artist
Size: Medium
Signed: Yes
Custom Bundle: No
Title: Decorated Lamp
Material: Porcelain
Certificate of Authenticity (COA): No
Item Length: 10 in
Region of Origin: New Mexico USA
Personalize: No
Type: Painting
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Item Height: 18 in
Style: Decorative
Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
Production Technique: Oil Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Culture: American
Time Period Produced: 1900-1924
