GASPARD LATOIX, 1892, New Jersey Pasture

Gaspard Latoix
American School, died 1910
Cows in a New Jersey Pasture (1892)
Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24"
Signed, dated and located (lower left): "LATOIX / NJ / 1892"
The frame, most likely original, is restored to original condition, gilded with 22-1/2 k gold leaf. Frame bears 2 old labels (one superimposed on the other):
on top:
"GARY & KENNY / PICTURE FRAMERS / GILDING
522 Broad Street / Newark, N.J."
underneath:
"871 Broad Street / Newark, N.J."

Little is recorded about his early life; he is thought to have been born in England around the mid 19th century. By the 1890's he was painting in New York and New Jersey.

He is known as a painter of Indian figures including Navajos of Arizona and Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, mostly done during the 1890 to 1910 period.

References: Kennedy Quarterly, June 1968, p 122;
Kennedy Quarterly, October 1964, p 50;
Antiques, October 1967, p 414.
Peggy and Harold Samuels, Illustrated Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West

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