Girl in Red Spotted Skirt
1949
Watercolor and pen and ink on laid paper
30.5 × 23.2 cm (12 × 9.1 in)
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● On view now — Collection Gallery, Room 17, East Wall
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia · verified July 2026
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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Francis McCarthy was a Philadelphia-based painter, watercolorist, and ceramicist, who took classes at the Barnes Foundation and received support from Albert Barnes to study fine art abroad in France. This watercolor of a woman—nude from the waist up and standing out of doors—is evocative of Paul Gauguin's Haere Pape , in Room 6, which McCarthy would have had access to while studying at the Foundation. Dr. Barnes bought this watercolor at the same time as McCarthy's stylistically similar Girl Seated in Room, which hangs nearby.
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