Patty Thum (1853 - 1926)

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 through 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.

Lady with Fan

Signed l.l.
Ink wash
10 by 6 5/8 inches

$250

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Pink Peonies

initialed l.r.
drawing, mixed media
5 1/4 by 7 inches
stamped Charles M. Kurtz, l.r.

$150

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Roses on Table

Signed l.r.; notated 1886 verso
Unknown stippling process
5 1/4 by 7 inches

$150

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Roses

Initialed l.r. margin
Pen and ink
5 3/8 by 7 1/4 inches

$150

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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

$100

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Crysanthemums

Chromolithograph, 1892, Montague Marks, New York, for The Art Amateur
Signed in plate l.r.
7 1/2 by 16 inches

$100

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