Henry Varnum Poor, (American, 1888–1970)
Mother and Child, c. 1924
Oil on canvas
59.8 x 54.7 cm. (23.5 x 21.5 in.)
Private collection
Private collection
The Madonna and Child or The Virgin and
Child is often the name of a work of art
which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means
"My Lady" in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother
Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition in many parts of the world
including Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, South America and the Philippines.
Paintings known as icons are also an important tradition of the Orthodox Church
and often show the Mary and the Christ Child. They are found particularly in
Eastern Europe, Russia, Egypt, the Middle East and India. More Madonna
and Child
Henry Varnum Poor (September 30, 1887 – December 8,
1970) was an American architect, painter, sculptor, muralist, and
potter. He was a grandnephew of the Henry Varnum Poor who was a founder of the
predecessor firm to Standard & Poor's. Poor attended Stanford University,
studied painting at the Slade School in London and under painter Walter
Sickert, then attended the Académie Julian in Paris. He returned to the United
States in 1911 and taught art at Stanford University before moving to San
Francisco to teach at the San Francisco Art Association. Following military
service in World War I, he settled in Rockland County, New York, and focused on
ceramics.
In the
late 1920s, Poor gained recognition as a painter and eventually turned to
murals; he was commissioned to paint twelve murals in the U.S. Department of
Justice and the mural Conservation of American Wild Life in the Department of
the Interior during the 1930s. During World War II he was head of the War Art
Unit of the Corps of Engineers. He served on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts
from 1944 to 1945. In 1946 Poor was one of the founders of the Skowhegan School
of Painting and Sculpture and taught at Columbia University. Poor was a member
of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a resident fellow in visual
arts at the American Academy in Rome from 1950 to 1951.
Self-taught
as an architect. He was also a potter, with ceramics in the permanent
collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
and ceramics designed for Radio City Music Hall. He also has works in the
collections of the Whitney Museum and the Phillips Collection. Poor's papers
are in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian.
He died on December 8, 1970 in New City, New York. More on Henry
Varnum Poor
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