Nymphs, Cuba, 1915

Oil on panel

8 7/8 x 12 in
22.5 x 30.5 cm

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Inscriptions

signed, titled and dated, ‘W.H. CLAPP. CUBA. 1915’ (lower left)

Provenance

Private collection, Montreal

By descent to the present private collection, Montreal

“William Henry Clapp left Canada for good in 1915, living in Cuba for two years before moving to California. In Cuba, he painted traditional bather compositions [...] injecting in the process a note of Gauguin exoticism into the Cuban countryside. Clapp uses the untrammelled quality of lush tropical vegetation to mirror the freedom of bathing au naturel in an untouched paradise.”

Elizabeth Cadiz Topp, Endless Summer: Canadian Artists in the Caribbean (Kleinburg: The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1988), 20.