Cleveland Museum of Art

Mary Holland Bacher

Otto H. Bacher

Date

1891

Medium

oil on canvas

Culture

America, Ohio, Cleveland

Department

American Painting and Sculpture

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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

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