Thursday, July 29, 2004
The Seasons Change
Bird dropped in on "Four Hounds in Winter" by the American Artist Alexander Pope. Pope was born in Dorchester MA in 1849 and is not to be confused with the english poet of hte same name.
As a youth, Pope carved and sketched animals around his home in Massachusetts. In the 1860s, he worked for his family’s lumber business. Pope studied carving, painting, perspective, and anatomy with William Rimmer, an important romantic-baroque sculptor, painter, and influential teacher of many Boston artists. From 1879 to 1883, Pope created many well-received carvings of game. Czar Alexander III of Russia acquired two of the carvings.
In 1893, Pope began painting animal portraits. This painting of four hounds and a flamingo warmly dressed for the winter was done in 1900. Two years earlier Pope painted "A Gordon Setter" standing in front of a green drape. That painting hangs in the Dog Museum ini St. Louis.
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