Flower Girl in Holland (1887): Artwork and History

Flower Girl in Holland (1887) is in the Art Institute of Chicago collection. The museum lists its creator attribution as George Hitchcock American, 1850–1913.

The work and its context

The Art Institute of Chicago describes the work:

After studying in London, Paris, and at the Hague, George Hitchcock settled in 1884 in the Netherlands, living and working for twenty years in Egmond. Attracted to the region’s landscape and peasant communities, the artist specialized in scenes featuring women in traditional dress set among voluptuous, blooming flowers. Here, Hitchcock revised the environment behind the Dutch flower seller, editing out other houses nearby in favor of a bucolic vista. Although he employed academic techniques such as fine modeling of his figures, Hitchcock nevertheless earned a reputation as a daring colorist for the brilliant hues and open brushwork that likewise characterize his compositions.

Object facts

• Title: Flower Girl in Holland
• Date: 1887
• Artist attribution: George Hitchcock American, 1850–1913
• Place of origin: Holland
• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 79.1 × 147.3 cm (31 1/8 × 58 in.)
• Type: Painting
• Department: Arts of the Americas
• Reference number: 1888.169

Collection credit

Potter Palmer Collection

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