Barbara Chandler Larner - Archive

'Summer Cottage (1963)'

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NOTES: "We spent a wonderful summer there . . . . Holly collected rocks, Ned was the life guard at the outer beach . . . . it was wonderful." [Barbara Larner]

This was the cottage behind the King Caesar House on Powder Point in Duxbury, MA. We rented the cottage (a former stable with attached barn) from Madame Weber-Fûlop, a Viennese artist. She and her husband, who I believe was an architect, moved there some years earlier. "Elisabeth Weber-Fûlop (1886-1966) was a painter in Vienna, Austria and New York. Weber-Fûlop trained with Ludwig Miclek and was married to architect Emil J. Weber.- Archives of American Art. It was noted "The broad interests, curiosity, and above all the great human warmth of the artist herself permeate all her figure work." - The Duxbury File. Her husband had died, and the last painting she did was a small portrait of him, which was on display on an easel in her very large high-ceilinged studio in the ell to the 1890 colonial home with a splendid landing on the bay. She and a companion drank martinis every evening on the terrace outside the studio. She was an excellent painter of landscapes, interiors and portraits --and very concerned that my mother was allowing me to go off alone to Cleveland to study art --at the age of 17. "She's too young."

Oil on canvas. 24" x 26" [1963]