When I wrote about the lyrical paintings of Charles Courtney Curran back in 2007 I mentioned being disappointed at the small amount of his work available on the web.
Since then the web has continued to expand, bless it’s silicon heart, and more resources for Curran’s idyllic scenes of women in gardens, hanging clothes and surrounded by flowers, as well as his scenes of children playing and domestic activity, have be come available.
Notably, Matthew D. Innis has an extensive and eclectic post on his blog Underpaintings that gives a nice overview of Curran’s work, though the images are not large. For that, look to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s superb high resolution reproduction of Curran’s portrait of Betty Newell (above, top with detail), as well as some of the zoomable images among Christies past auction lots.
I’ve listed other resources below. For more, see my previous post on Charles Courtney Curran.
[Thanks to TimM for the suggestion.]










Metropolitan Museum of Art
Athenaeum
Wikimedia Commons
Terra Foundation for American Art
Christies past lots
Sotheby's past lots
Chez Anna
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Brooklyn Museum
Bio on Wikipedia
Artcyclopedia, links and resources
My previous post about Charles Courtney Curran
How did he sign his work? With a unique triple C?
Just curious.
Usually “Charles C Curran” or “Chas C Curran”.
His paintings almost seem to be candid photography, in the sense he doesn’t try to force a cheery expression for each subject. And captures them going out everyday life.
i own a large documented work
by charles c. curran which I would like
to sell;
rich 917 453 0978