Mary Holland Bacher

1891

Otto H. Bacher

(American, 1856–1909)

Culture

America, Ohio, Cleveland

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

Unframed: 90.6 x 57.4 cm (35 11/16 x 22 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Will Low Bacher 1966.388

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Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

As a child, Otto Bacher liked to sketch shipping activities around Cleveland's port.

Description

Bacher was the first artist from Cleveland to achieve international renown, and this portrait of his wife exemplifies the Impressionist style he adopted after studying in Paris during the late 1880s. The painting’s unusual subject testifies to the emergence of tennis as one of the few sports of the era in which women could participate without being considered inappropriately masculine or uncouth.