Saintly Sinner (Jean McGuire)
Title of Artwork: Saintly Sinner
Materials Used: Oil on Canvas
Price: $3480
Medium: Painting
Date created (Year) : 2024
Size: 30” x 40” x 1.5”
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent Condition
Signature: Hand-signed by artist, Signature located on Bottom right
Certification of Authenticity: Included (issued by authorized authenticating body)
Frame: Not included
Series: Telling Their Stories
About the Work:
This painting is based on an antique photo of a Wichita saloon girl, dated 1886. Many of the saloon girls were women who were forced to earn a living in an era that offered few means for women to do so. If for some reason a woman was not married, or marriageable, she had few choices in how to support herself.
A saloon girls job was to encourage the cowboys who visited the establishment where she worked to spend as much of their pay at the saloon as possible. Buy her a drink? Yes. Play a game of cards? Yes. Maybe pay to enjoy her company? Sometimes yes.
The photo I worked from intrigued me: the young woman is a mixture of innocence and sensuality. She looks young, but old; innocent, but provocative. Statistically, women who were in this line of work had a high percentage of suicides. I hope she escaped this and ended up living a long, happier life.
Title of Artwork: Saintly Sinner
Materials Used: Oil on Canvas
Price: $3480
Medium: Painting
Date created (Year) : 2024
Size: 30” x 40” x 1.5”
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent Condition
Signature: Hand-signed by artist, Signature located on Bottom right
Certification of Authenticity: Included (issued by authorized authenticating body)
Frame: Not included
Series: Telling Their Stories
About the Work:
This painting is based on an antique photo of a Wichita saloon girl, dated 1886. Many of the saloon girls were women who were forced to earn a living in an era that offered few means for women to do so. If for some reason a woman was not married, or marriageable, she had few choices in how to support herself.
A saloon girls job was to encourage the cowboys who visited the establishment where she worked to spend as much of their pay at the saloon as possible. Buy her a drink? Yes. Play a game of cards? Yes. Maybe pay to enjoy her company? Sometimes yes.
The photo I worked from intrigued me: the young woman is a mixture of innocence and sensuality. She looks young, but old; innocent, but provocative. Statistically, women who were in this line of work had a high percentage of suicides. I hope she escaped this and ended up living a long, happier life.
Title of Artwork: Saintly Sinner
Materials Used: Oil on Canvas
Price: $3480
Medium: Painting
Date created (Year) : 2024
Size: 30” x 40” x 1.5”
Rarity: Unique
Condition: Excellent Condition
Signature: Hand-signed by artist, Signature located on Bottom right
Certification of Authenticity: Included (issued by authorized authenticating body)
Frame: Not included
Series: Telling Their Stories
About the Work:
This painting is based on an antique photo of a Wichita saloon girl, dated 1886. Many of the saloon girls were women who were forced to earn a living in an era that offered few means for women to do so. If for some reason a woman was not married, or marriageable, she had few choices in how to support herself.
A saloon girls job was to encourage the cowboys who visited the establishment where she worked to spend as much of their pay at the saloon as possible. Buy her a drink? Yes. Play a game of cards? Yes. Maybe pay to enjoy her company? Sometimes yes.
The photo I worked from intrigued me: the young woman is a mixture of innocence and sensuality. She looks young, but old; innocent, but provocative. Statistically, women who were in this line of work had a high percentage of suicides. I hope she escaped this and ended up living a long, happier life.