* individual artists illustrating boys fashions -- Frances Wiley Faig







Artists Illustrating Boys' Fashions: Frances Wiley Faig (United States, 1885-1955)


Figure 1.--Here we see who we believe to be a Cincinatti boy painted about 1910 by Francis Wiley Faig. The red-haired boy wears a large white collar with a floppy pink bow. The collar is similsar to an Eton collar, but note the tips of the collar are rounded.

We note a very impressive woman artists, Frances Wiley Faig from Cincinnati, Ohio . Mrs. Faig studied with Frank Duveneck and with Charles Hawthorne. She was a member of the McDowell Society, the Cincinnati Women's Art Club and the Southern States Art League.We note a very impressive portrait she did of a boy in an Eton collasr and floppy bow. The boy is unidentified, but we believe he is from Cincinatti and probably painted about 1910, although this is only a guess.

The Artist

We note a very impressive woman artists, Frances Wiley Faig from Cincinnati, Ohio . Mrs. Faig studied with Frank Duveneck and with Charles Hawthorne. She was a member of the McDowell Society, the Cincinnati Women's Art Club and the Southern States Art League. In addition to the Engineering Library murals at the University of Cincinnati, Mrs. Faig painted murals of the Miami and Erie canals in Hartwell High School and of the Cincinnati hills in the Woman's City Club. In 1932 Mrs. Faig painted murals in Western Hills High School depicting transportation, architecture and dress in Cincinnati. These murals were restored in 1974.

Portrait

We note a very impressive portrait she did of a boy in a large white collar and floppy bow. The boy is unidentified, but we believe he is from Cincinatti and probably painted about 1910, although thisd is only a guess. The fact that the portrait was framed in Cincinnati is a good indicator thsat it was also painted there. The fact that Mrs. Faig was born in 1885 meands that she woukld not hace begunb during pprtraits until about age 20 or 1905. We know that Eton collasrs declined rapidly un popularity after World WAr I (1914-18). Thus it would seem likely that Mrs. Faig did the portrait about 1910-15*1918 The red-haired boy wears a large white collar with a floppy pink bow. The collar is similsar to an Eton collar, but note the tips of the collar are rounded.





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