Payne Fine Arts

Patty Prather Thum (1853-1926)
	More than 40 works of art by Patty Thum were exhibited in November 2009 at the Howard Steamboat Museum, just across the Ohio River from Louisville in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The Howard published a full-color catalog of the exhibition. There is no other one-volume source on the artist with such a range of color illustrations.  Please contact the museum at 812-283-3728 for more information.
BACK Kentucky Scene signed l.l. watercolor on paper 14  by 10  inches   price BACK Mixed Bouquet signed l.l. oil on photo 8 1/2 by 10 1/2 inches, oval Verso, in her handwriting: a tinted photograph/ from my painting/ an over mantel piece/ 22 x 27 inches/ Patty Thum/ 622 Francis Building/Louisville, KY   In 1923, Miss Thum exhibited "Over Mantel (sic) Flower Study" in the Louisville Art Association Exhibition of Work by Louisville Artists at the Louisville Free Public Library. price   Patty Thum illustrations enlarge BACK Lady with Fan signed l.l. ink wash 10 by 6 5/8 inches $400 +shipping and handling 6% sales tax in Kentucky enlarge Pink Peonies initialed l.r. drawing, mixed media 5 1/4 by 7 inches stamped Charles M. Kurtz, l.r. $350 enlarge Roses on Table signed l.r. unknown stippling process 5 1/4 by 7 inches notated 1886 verso $375   enlarge Roses initialed l.r. margin pen and ink 5 3/8 x 7 1/4 inches stamped Charles M. Kurtz, l.r.     $300   Patty Thum prints enlarge BACK Thanksgiving postcard, 1918, F. A. Owen, Co., Dannsville, NY photo offset lithograph 3 7/16 by 5 1/2 inches $45 enlarge BACK A Lasting Wish postcard, 1916, F. A. Owen, Co., Dannsville, NY photo offset lithograph 5 1/2 by 3 7/16  inches SOLD enlarge Wild Roses signed in plate l.r. chromolithograph, 1892, Montague Marks, New York, for The Art Amateur 12 by 10 3/4 inches $125 enlarge Chrysanthemums signed in plate l.r. chromolithograph, 1894, Montague Marks, New York, for The Art Amateur 7 1/2 by 16 inches $125 enlarge A Breath of June signed in plate l.r. photo offset lithograph, 1911, T. D. M. Co., Red Oak, Iowa 11 by 14 1/2 inches $200 enlarge Bouquets of Pansies signed in plate l.c. chromolithograph, 1894, Montague Marks, New York, for The Art Amateur 16 by 11 inches $100
Louisville native Patty Thum was one of the most influential figures in local art from the Victorian period through the 1920s. She had a national audience thanks to popular lithographic reproductions of her flower paintings. She also helped determine the city's artistic agenda though her writings about art, primarily as a critic for the Louisville Herald. Thum first studied art at Vassar College, then at the Art Students League with William Merritt Chase. She returned to Louisville in the 1870s and began her art career. In the 1880s she headed back to New York briefly for study with Thomas Eakins. She exhibited in Cincinnati, St. Louis, New York and Chicago.   She was represented in the ground-breaking exhibition Kentucky Women Artists: 1850-2000 in 2001-2002.