Modernist Margaret T Gove Camfferman Seattle Group of Twelve Original WPA Post Impressionist Portrait Red Parasol Cubist Fine Oil Painting

Margaret Gove Camfferman, (1881-1964), was born in Rochester, Minnesota in 1881. She first studied at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts where she met her husband, Peter Camfferman, she then attended the New York School of Applied Arts & Design and finally, both she and her husband studied with Robert Henri in New York, and with Andre Lhote in Paris. 
In 1915, a year after their marriage, the Camffermans moved to Langley, a town on Whidbey Island in Washington state. Their home was called Brachenwood where they established an art colony for visiting artists and instructors.  Like many women of her era, Margaret created several pieces, yet she focused most of the artistic attention on her husband’s career as a painter even though she was nine years his senior and had considerably more talent and experience in their early years together.
The Camffermans were among the first modernist painters in the American Northwest. Margaret's paintings during that period are vivid and show the influence of Post-Impressionism. The couple were part of "Seattle’s Group of Twelve", and were highly regarded in the art community. Margaret was an early member of the Women Painters of Washington, as well as the Puget Sound Group, and the art faculty and students associated with the University of Washington.
At Brachenwood, the Camffermans offered classes that were frequented by many of the painters of the Northwest. The colony flourished from the 1920s until 1957 but when Peter died, the studios began to fall into disrepair.
Margaret worked with the Public Works of Art Project during the Depression as an easel painter and had a solo exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum in 1935. Besides local exhibitions, Margaret exhibited in San Francisco at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exhibition, the San Francisco Art Museum, and the Palace of the Legion of Honor. She also exhibited with the Smithsonian Travelling exhibitions, from the 1920s through 1956.

Margaret T. Gove Camfferman
(1881-1964)
American Post Impressionist; Associated with "Seattle Group of Twelve", artists.
Portrait of a Woman with a Red Parasol
Oil on Canvas
Approximately 20" X 24"
Estimated at 1960
Good condition. Thin line along the bottom of the painting of missing paint, due to pressure from the previous frame, and wood stretcher bars on the reverse, as shown. All paint is original.
Most of the gallery wrapper is still present on the reverse. Adhered to the back of wooden canvas stretcher bars. 

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