Portrait of Two Girls, 1901
by Dana Ripley Pond (1881–1962)40⅛ x 30⅜ inches
Signed and dated upper left: Dana R Pond 01
Information
Provenance
Sale, James D. Julia, Fairfield, Maine, January 31, 2008, lot 65
Private collection, Chicago, Illinois, acquired from above
Sale, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers, Oak Park, Illinois, March 14, 2021, lot 31, from above
Private collection, New Brighton, Minnesota, (likely) acquired from above
Note: Pond was well known as a portraitist. Two self-portraits by the artist are in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.
Artist Biography
Dana Ripley Pond, known primarily as a prolific early twentieth-century American portrait painter, was born on April 8, 1881, to a prominent Winchester, Massachusetts family. He attended the Worcester Academy and continued his education in Boston and abroad. Instead of taking over the family piano company after his father’s death, Pond decided to seriously pursue a career in painting, quickly establishing himself as a proficient portraitist.
Pond maintained a studio in the Hotel des Artistes in New York City and, for a time, one in Paris. While in France just after World War I, he was commissioned by the American Red