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Salome, 1899, oil on canvas,
72 x 36 inches. Private collection. (Note, there are numerous figures
and decorations in the background, not visible in this
photo.)
When last seen, the oil was housed in a
new 5"-wide hand-carved
distressed wood frame with gold leaf applied decorations.
This painting
was catalogued and exhibited at ACA Galleries in 2005, and prior to that
it was exhibited in 1908 at the Macbeth Gallery. Just before
the ACA show, it was restored and stretched by Yost Conservation in
Oxford, CT.
 In Costume, 1914, oil on canvas,
72 x 52 inches
Purchased 1915, National Gallery of Canada (no. 1152.) Exhibited, The National Academy of
Design, 1915
Portrait of
Jeanne Cartier, in Cole
Porter’s See
America First.,
oil on canvas, 72 x 36 inches, 1916. Collection, Yale Art Gallery
(Note, scan of catalogue photo.)
Exhibited, National Academy of Design
1917, Yale Art Gallery 2004
The Yale Art Gallery, which owns this painting in its collections, makes
these observations:
“Silhouetted at life
size against a curtain backdrop, the vivacious dancer in iridescent
costume holds castanets in outstretched arms and wears a toreador hat.
The painting reveals Mora’s admiration for full-length portraits by
Spanish masters like Velazquez in the vigorous rendering of flattened
forms. The faint illusion of three-dimensional space ultimately depends
on the pointed placement of her satin shoe in the foreground.”
Isadora Duncan, pastel on paper, approx. 17 x 18 inches. Collection, Hood Museum,
Dartmouth College. This is probably a study for the oil painting with this
image which will also be catalogued.
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