Oil on canvas, 1910, signed and dated at lower left, presented in the original gilt composition frame.

Stretcher size 20 x 16 in.; Frame dimensions 29 1/4 x 25 1/4 in.

Anna Lee Day Stacey was an American painter known for her portraiture and genre scenes, particularly those depicting women and children in domestic settings. Originally from Missouri, she studied at the Kansas City Art Association and the Art Institute of Chicago.

In 1900, Stacey and her husband, fellow artist John F. Stacey, visited Paris for the Exposition Universelle. In Paris, she was influenced by the academic traditions and the emerging Impressionist movement. Once the couple returned to Chicago, they founded a studio-home at the city’s famed Tree Studios building built in 1894. They continued to travel extensively, both in the states and abroad.

In the 1920s, the Staceys frequently visited the impressionist painters at the Old Lyme Artist Colony in Old Lyme, Connecticut. In 1937, the couple moved to Pasadena, California. Over the course of her long career, Anna exhibited work at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915, among many others.

Canvas slightly loose on stretcher; age cracking to frame.