Florence Julia Bach (American, 1887-1978), Portrait of a Young Girl with Book

Oil on canvas, 1922, signed and dated at upper left, presented in a carved period giltwood frame.

Stretcher size 42 1/4 x 29 1/4 in.; Frame dimensions 47 1/4 x 34 1/4 in.

Known for her portraiture and still life paintings, Florence Julia Bach was born in Buffalo, New York. She studied at the University of Buffalo, the Art Students’ League of Buffalo, the Albright Art Gallery, the Art Students’ League in New York City, and L’École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and traveled to France and Germany. She returned to New York City and was invited to teach modeling at the Art Students’ League. In 1913, Bach moved back to Buffalo where she began a career teaching art at Buffalo School of Fine Arts and maintained a studio. She was a member of the Buffalo Society of Artists, the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, The Patteran Society of Buffalo, the Town Club of Buffalo, the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, and the Art Alliance. She exhibited at the Carnegie Institute and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Bach painted portraits of notable members of her community. After retiring from the Buffalo School, she moved to Manhattan where she opened a studio. Eventually, she settled in Greenwich, Connecticut, where she taught art part-time to women at the Greenwich Country Club. Her artwork is in many collections including the Burchfield Penney Art Center, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, and the Huntsville Museum of Art.

Age cracking, horizontal line of retouching across the forehead, repaired hole to lower left, minor abrasions to the frame.