Description: Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, Robert C. Joy attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 192728. In 1932, he moved to Houston. There, James H. Chillman, the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gave him his first one-man exhibition, and Joy went on to teach art at the museums art school (now the Glassell School of Art). In the 1940s, he began painting portraits; during the next 40 years he completed over 350 works of Texas political, business, and social leaders. This painting of Miss Ima Hogg is almost certainly a preliminary version of another portrait in the Bayou Bend Collection (B.71.132), which has long been one of a small number of iconic images of Bayou Bends founder. Robert C. Joy (1910-1993) Houston portraitist, painted more than 350 portraits over his 40-year career. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1927-28. His subjects included Texas political, business, and social leaders His subjects included Texas political, business, and social leaders. Among his subjects were former President Lyndon Baines Johnson; Houston philanthropist Ima Hogg; cattleman and banker Gus S. Wortham; Lillie Abercrombie, whose husband was founder of Cameron Iron Works and also helped charter Texas Children's Hospital; and Will Clayton who served as assistant and later undersecretary of state under Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman and was a primary designer of the Marshall Plan.
Price: 300 USD
Location: Gordonville, Texas
End Time: 2025-01-20T21:08:53.000Z
Shipping Cost: 47 USD
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Artist: Robert Joy
Signed By: Robert C Joy
Size: Medium
Signed: Yes
Material: Canvas
Framing: Framed
Subject: Texas
Type: Painting
Year of Production: 1910
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Item Height: 31 in
Theme: Americana
Style: Figurative Art
Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
Production Technique: Oil Painting
Item Width: 25 in
Time Period Produced: 20th century
