August 27, 2014 — The Tease, 1901 …
I have this print, framed! … Love the Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite (?) style … most especially the orange tabby cat! … Got it at a large antique furniture store in Portland. A man and his partner were also interested, but graciously acceded to my passionate adoration!
A dark, antique three-drawer dresser with oval swivel mirror also caught my eye … the reason I was at the store … Just calculated … 1994. Yoikes! 20 years ago! … K and I were going separate ways … I moved to an apartment on John Olsen Road, east of Hillsboro … Still farm land … A mighty oak centered an open field beyond the living room windows … Just like the Glenwood house!
2:30 pm – Just discovered who the artist is! … John William Godward … and another orange tabby cat … “Idleness” – 1900 … (thanks, Pinterest!)
“John William Godward (9 August 1861 – 13 December 1922) was an English painter from the end of the Pre-Raphaelite/Neo-Classicist era. He was a protégé of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema but his style of painting fell out of favour with the arrival of painters like Picasso. He committed suicide at the age of 61 and is said to have written in his suicide note that “the world was not big enough” for him and a Picasso.
“His already estranged family, who had disapproved of his becoming an artist, were ashamed of his suicide and burned his papers. No photographs of Godward are known to survive.” – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Godward
Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo 