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Lot 78 Attributed to Frank Reed Whiteside (American 1866-1929) ZUNI GARDEN oil on canvas, partial signature, lower left 11 x 14in. A native of Philadelphia, Frank Reed Whiteside studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in Paris with Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens. Whiteside taught art in public and private schools including the Pennsylvania Academy. He was a member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the Philadelphia Water Color Club, the Philadelphia Art Alliance and a fellow of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He traveled extensively through the southwest where he lived for a period with the Zuni Indians. Many of his paintings portray the culture, lifestyle and ceremonies of the Zuni, Apache, and Pueblo Indians A memorial exhibition of Whiteside's work was held at the Philadelphia Sketch Club in 1929 and a retrospective at the Phoenix (Arizona) Art Museum in 1971.
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