Currently not on view
A Flower Walk,
1874–75
A Flower Walk is probably the painting that Moore exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1875. A critic writing in the London Illustrated News described its attraction for viewers of the Aesthetic Period, an age when eclectic artistic influences were combined for maximum delectation: "This is decorative painting of the rarest and most artistic. The pure classical feeling, the faultless draughtsmanship, modeling [and] above all the original and lovely coloring, are deserving of the warmest praise." In A Flower Walk the impact of Japanese prints (then newly known in Europe) and the study of classical antiquity are combined with the painter’s refined and subtle sense of color.
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1874–75
Europe, England
- The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, 1875: the one hundreth and seventh, (London: Clowes and Sons, 1875)., no. 356(?)
- Henry Blackburn, Academy notes, 1875, (London: Chatto and Windus, 1875)., p. 27-28
- Alfred L. Baldry, Albert Moore, his life and works, (London: Bell, 1894)., p. 44, 94-95, 103
- John Ruskin, "Notes on some of the principal pictures exhibited in the rooms of the Royal Academy: 1875", Works 14, (Boston: D. Estes, 1903-1912)., p. 272-273
- Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, (London: H. Graves and Co., 1905-06)., p. 76
- Fine Victorian paintings, drawings and watercolours: on Tuesday, 20th November, 1973, (London: Sotheby's Belgravia, 1973)., lot 52 (illus.)
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The Royal Academy (1837-1901) revisited: Victorian paintings from the Forbes Magazine Collection, (New York: Forbes, 1975).
, no. 24, p. 64; p. 65 (illus.) - Michael Justin Wentworth, James Tissot: catalogue raisonné of his prints, (Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1978)., nos. 57–61
- Rafaeru zenha to sono jidai ten = The Pre-Raphaelites and their times, (Tokyo: The Tokyo Shimbun, 1985)., no. 52; p. 110 (illus.)
- Old master paintings, (London: Sotheby's, 1986)., lot 84 (illus.) [not entirely sure that this is the correct auction catalogue, not held at PUL--AW]
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1986," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 46, no. 1 (1987): p. 18–52, p. 22 (illus.)
- Susan P. Casteras, John Ruskin and the Victorian eye, (New York: Harry N. Abrams; Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 1993)., p. 154, 155; fig. 118
- Robyn Asleson, Albert Moore, (London: Phaidon Press, 2000)., p. 136, fig. 131
