"Music Playing Cupids" Lot no. 946
By Albertine Whelan 1863-1954
1908 (Estimated)
2.50" x 32.50"; Two at 12.50" x 9.75", Overall 12" x 53"
Gouache on Three Illustration Boards
Each Signed or Monogrammed
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Large group of cupids playing and reading music
Illustration in three parts, 1908, Framed all together
On verso or margin of each: “Copyright A. R. Beggs & Co NY ”
A great deal of Wheelan's work was destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake, and again in a fire in her New York Studio in the 1930s. Wheelan was closely involved for years with set and costume design for the Belasco Theatre in New York.
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