Fair Critics, 1887, Oil on canvas, 18 x 32 in. (45. 7 x 81. 3 cm), Paintings, Charles Courtney Curran (1861?1942), A native of Kentucky, Curran moved in 1881 to New York City, where he attended the National Academy of Design and became a prolific and popular painter of genre scenes and portraits. Here, he depicted a model presenting her image to an audience of two ?fair critics