Date of Award

3-18-2013

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Art

First Advisor

Floyd Martin

Abstract

The available scholarship on Henri-Edmond Cross (1856-1910) focuses on his later Divisionist landscape paintings, giving little attention to his academic years and figural works. This study reviews the artist's formative years by looking at an academic figure study held in the Arkansas Arts Center collection entitled Standing Nude. To attribute a date to the sketch, it will be considered three ways: the figure, the cross-hatching technique and role of the model in the oeuvre of Cross. The suggested date will illustrate that Cross was not only working within the non-traditional movement of Neo-Impressionism, but that he also possessed academic training.

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