Autumn Mood
Here is a selection of 20 of the gallery's most beautiful interpretations of the fall season in New England.
(Reception Sunday, Sept. 7th, 5-7 pm)
Exhibited September 1 to October 25, 2008
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William Lester Stevens (American, 1888-1969)
Barn in the Valley
Signed "W. LESTER STEVENS N.A." l.r.
Oil on canvas, 18 x 22 in.
Framed, price available upon request
Born in Rockport, Massachusetts, Stevens spent four years at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts School, where he studied under Edmund Tarbell, among others. Primarily an oil painter, he also used watercolor and acrylics. He is best known for his post-impressionistic landscapes. Throughout the course of his long career, Stevens taught, first in Rockport, then at Boston University (1925-1926) and Princeton (1927-1929), and during the Depression at Grand Manan.
He was a National Academician and a member of the American Watercolor Society; a founding member of the Rockport Art Association; Springfield, MA Art League; Guild of Boston Artists; Gallery on Moors; New Haven Paint and Clay Club, CT; Gloucester Society of Art; North Shore Art Association; Boston Watercolor Club and the New York Watercolor Club. He won art awards at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC; American Watercolor Society; New Haven Paint and Clay Club; Springfield Art League; Salons of America; Washington Watercolor Club; North Shore AA; Rockport AA and more. He painted USPO murals in Dedham and Rockport, MA, the Boston City Hall, the Louisville, KY Art Museum and several schools in Boston. References: Movalli, Charles, American Artist (April 1986); Who’s Who in American Art (1947); Who Was Who in American Art (vol. 3, p. 3171-72).
Autumn Scene
Signed "W. Merritt Post" l.r.,
Watercolor, 14 x 20 in matted to 20 x 26 in
Condition: Excellent.
$2200
William Merritt Post (1856-1935) Maintained studios in both New York City and in West Morris, now Bantum, Connecticut. He first studied art in New York with Samuel Frost Johnson, then the Art Students League with James Carroll Beckwith and finally with the landscape painter, Hugh Bolton Jones. He and Jones did tightly focused landscape scenes, often with streams amid trees. Capturing light at differing times was their goal, and by the mid-1880s, he was influenced by Impressionism. An associate member of the National Academy of Design in New York, he moved to Connecticut in 1912.
Autumn Glory
Oil on linen, 20" x 31"
Dennis Sheehan
$3650
Dennis Sheehan, born in Boston in 1950, is a member of the Guild of Boston Artists, and currently lives and works in the New Hampshire countryside. His work is in major public and private collections, including the White House. Sheehan paints in the Barbizon mode with remarkable authority and faithful adherence to his 19th century precursors. In the tradition of the Tonalist painters, Sheehan creates landscapes of mood, affected by nature's changing seasons. "My goal is to have the painting emanate light, rather than be just a surface that records the reflections of light. This is why the shadow areas are important, for it is from them that this emanation proceeds. The light areas are focal points of this effort, but the power comes from the shadows."
Hunter's Moon
Oil on linen, 11" x 19"
Dennis Sheehan
$2250
Autumn Blaze
Oil on linen, 11" x 21"
Dennis Sheehan
$2450
Narcisse Virgil Diaz de la Peña (1808-1876)
Fontainebleau Forest Interior
Signed "Diaz" l.l., artist identified on a label affixed to the reverse.
Oil on board, 12 1/4 x 10 in.
antique frame 16 x 18 in.
Price available upon request
Narcisse Diaz, a French landscape and figure painter and founding member of the avant-garde Barbizon school, was born in Bordeaux of Spanish parents. His parents were refugees from Joseph Bonaparte's Spain. By the age of ten, he was a penniless orphan in the care of a priest at Bellevue near Paris.(1). The young Narcisse, who had lost one of his legs to blood poisoning, was apprenticed as a pottery decorator in Paris at the age of 15, (2) which may account for his later predilection for bright colors and his rather free draftsmanship.(3) His handicap, and its impact on his mobility, were to be determinant in the course of his future career. As was a common practice, Narcisse learned to paint at the Louvre, where he was drawn to the works of the colorists. His early inspiration came most notably from Correggio, whose Antiope he repeated and interpreted in his own Nymphe Endormie (also in The Louvre).
Among his contemporaries, Narcisse had two spiritual fathers: Eugène Delacroix with his orientalist nymphs, Turks and Bohemians, (4) and Théodore Rousseau, with whom he became friends at Barbizon in 1836 and who gave him a taste for the Dutch masters. Narcisse first exhibited at the Salon between 1831 and 1837. From 1837 to 1844, he was a founding member of the Barbizon school, named for a small village at the edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau. It was during this period that his future greatness became manifest. During the ensuing years, he was awarded three Salon gold medals for painting, and, in 1851, was named a Knight of the Legion of Honor. At the 1846 Salon, Narcisse's entries garnered the praise of Théophile Gautier: "There is in painting, as in music, a purely sensual side, in which the eye delights in the color - as the ear delights in the note - for its own value and sonority ... A major green or a minor yellow are delicacies which charm the eye. One can but admire the love of hues for their own sake which Diaz manifests, and on which his reputation rests."(7) With the Salon of 1848, the Barbizon School of painters became a definite, recognized entity, dominating French landscape painting through the late 1860's. (8)
Foret d'Autumne
P. Dumont
AUTUMN FOREST ca 1930
oil on canvas 19 x 25
Period Gold Frame; 24 x 30
signed lower right "P. Dumont"
Condition: excellent with no restoration
This post-Barbizon era painting is reminiscent of the extraordinary forest interiors painted on site in the forest of Fontainebleau by the first generation of Barbizon painters, particularly Rousseau and his pupil Diaz de la Pena.
F. John Hilliard (American, b. 1880)
Autumn Landscape oil on canvasboard 14" X 16"
$1200
F. John Hilliard was born in Burlington, Vermont in 1880 and studied in Boston with Eric Pape, George L. Noyes, Charles Emerson, H. Brett, S. Carbee and R. Andrew. He was a member of the Boston Art Club and their president from 1942-1945, the Copley Society, and the Rockport Art Association. His works are in the permanent collections of Boston University, Boston College, and the University of Maine.
Autumn River Landscape (oil on canvas, 16" x 20")
by Paul Wesley Arndt (1881-1978)
Gilded antique frame, 22" x 26"
$1200
Charles P. Gruppe, American. 1860-1940
Landscape w/ Stream, Late 19/Early 20C.
Watercolor on paper, framed Signed lower left: "Chas. P. Gruppe".
Image: 22 x 28 in. Frame: 27 x 33 in.
Charles Gruppe was born in Canada, and moved to New York State was he was ten. Primarily a tonalist landscape and marine painter, Charles Gruppe was largely self-taught although he spent time studying in Europe, eventually settling in Holland for a time where he developed his skill at subtle coloration and careful draftsmanship. Charles Gruppe returned to America becoming a painter and well as a dealer. His son, Emile, who became a famous painter himself, was born in 1896.
In 1925, after seeing a number of Rockport and Gloucester harborscenes painted by Frederick Mulhaupt at an exhibition in New York, father and son traveled to the Cape Ann area of Massachusetts. They fell in love with the location, set up studios and painted there for the rest of their lives. The Gruppe family studio remains there to this day.
Charles Gruppe exhibited at the National Academy of Design (NAD), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), the Boston Art Club, and also in Paris where he won a gold medal at the Rouen Exhibition. His paintings are included in the collections of the National Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the National Arts Club, the National Gallery in Canada, the Queen of Holland Collection, and in the Art Museum in Rouen, France.
QUEBEC AUTUMN
Vivian Walker (1903-1972)
Oil on Board 20" x 24," framed 30” x 34
$1500
Vivian Walker studied Art at Sir Williams College of Art, Montreal, Quebec. She had several successful Exhibitions between 1943 and 1962. She had 4 paintings at the Canadian Exhibition in Washington D.C. in 1954. Which were very well received with positive accounts in the press. She was Honorary Treasurer of the Woman’s Art Society of Montreal.
This Impressionist forest scene was most likely done in and around the Laurentians, north of Montreal. Her strong use of color gives this work a lyrical and evocative qualities associated with 19th century French works, while maintaining a distinctive North American flavor.
Wayne Beam Morrell (American, b. 1923)
Ipswich River Golden Sunset
Signed "Wayne Morrell" l.l., titled and inscribed "Collection of LISA A. MORRELL fromWayne Morrell, SEPT. 10, 2000, IPSWICH RIVER GOLDEN SUNSET, 1975, MY FINEST OF THAT YEAR."
Oil on board, 24 x 36 in. (61.0 x 91.4 cm), framed.
price available upon request
Wayne Beam Morrell was born in New Jersey in 1923 and as a young child took an immediate liking towards drawing. As a result, he attended the Philadelphia School of Industrial Arts studied draftsmanship and commercial art. Morrell worked as a commercial artist and served in the United States army during the Korean War. After the war, he began painting in 1953 with great success and subsequently left his career as a commercial designer to devote his energy full time to the fine arts. Since then he has exhibited his impressionistic works internationally to great acclaim.
Drawing from his personal life and everyday surroundings gave Morrell greater depth and understanding of his home in New England and these works are what he is best known for. Morrell was a member of the celebrated Rockport artist colony and he is one of a premier group of American artists who continue the this regional tradition of great landscapes.
Morrell is a member of many artists associations including the American Artists, and the Rockport Art Association. His art can be found in the Butler Institute of American Art, the Columbus Museum of Fine Art, the American Watercolor Society, the Vermont Art Association, the Rockport Art Association, and in private collections throughout the United States.
Wandering
by William Marvin
16" x 12"
$950
Harry Hambro Howe (1886-1968)
Landscape with Houses (oil on canvas, 16 x 20)
In a frame measuring 20 x 24
$1500 framed
Fine oil on artist board painting of a New England river scene by listed American artist, Harry Hambro Howe (1886-1968). Harry H. Howe was the son of T. Bailey Howe who is well known (T. Bailey) as an early 20th century New England painter known for his paintings of clipper ships and harbor scenes. His son, Harry H. Howe lived in Maine and he also painted New England scenes, clipper ships and Nantucket scenes. H. H. Howe is listed in Davenport's and there is a lot of biographical information on this artist at www.askart.com.
This oil painting is in very good condition and there are some vibrant colors and nice evening light with lots of shades of pink and blue in the sky.
“Barn in Autumn”
Signed "Bernard Corey" l.r., titled on the reverse.
Oil on Board, 8 x 12 in.
Signed "Bernard Corey" l.r.,
Oil on Masonite, 10.5 x 14 in.
Condition: Excellent.
$3200 Framed
Bernard Corey is one of New England's premiere landscape painters. He executes paintings surely en pleinaire with accuracy and competence. Memberships included the Rockport Art Association, Salmagundi Club, the Guild of Boston Artists, North Shore Art Association and more. Having won over 100 awards and honors, some include awards at the North Shore Art Association, Rockport Art Association, Salmagundi Club, NYC, Hudson Valley Art Association, Providence Water Color Club, Allied Artists of America and many more.
Autumn Splendor
Christian Bergeron
16 x 20 oil on canvas
$900 Framed
Christian Bergeron was born in 1945 in Charlevoix,Quebec, and developed his talent for figurative art at a very young age and has been earning his living with his art since the age of 20. Influenced by Impressionists, his mastery of colors is very distinctive. His skillful use of spatula has made him a well-known artist. His works are sold in galleries from Halifax to Vancouver; and can be found in many corporate collections.
Mill Pond Farm
Brad Betts
9 x 12 oil on canvas
$900
Brad Betts paints a variety of landscape scenes from Maine seascapes, farm life, fishing and sailing, to historical maritime scenes as well as floral still life. Brad has been an artist for over 15 years and received his education from the University of Maine in Orono.
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