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| WINTER MAGIC
Here is a selection of the gallery's most beautiful interpretations
of winter in New England.
Exhibited October 25 to December 25, 2011
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WALTER KOENIGER 1881-1943
The Icy Falls
24 x 36 Oil on Linen
$7500 Framed (30 x 42)
Known as “the Painter of Snow,” Walter Koeniger was the son of an architect, born in Germany on May 6, 1881. From architecture, Walter turned to painting, while still in Germany. He studied under Eugene Gustav Dücker (1841-1916) and Eduard Karl Franz Gebhardt (1838-1925) at the Düsseldorf Academy. Dücker studied at the Imperial Art Academy of St. Petersburg and was influenced by Russian realism. Around 1912, Koeniger settled in Woodstock, New York, where he abandoned Dücker’s crisp, photographic realism for a more painterly, expressive technique. He concentrated on capturing the fleeting moods of nature during a period when the winter scene genre was rapidly rising in popularity.
Koeniger focused on views of the Catskill Mountains and wooded areas around Woodstock and Saugerties. He painted in broad, large strokes, rendering brilliant sunlight and glowing color harmonies, soft gradations of color in the sky, streams and forests. For G. Frank Muller (1925), Koeniger attempted “to convey to the beholder the rapture he experiences before nature at her best. Koeniger seizes the delight of woodland beauties and passes it on for our enjoyment.” Reportedly, Koeniger would delay the completion of a painting until the setting sun would add the proper tint of orange to the scene.
Vose Galleries featured Koeniger’s works in December of 1926. That year he began to exhibit his landscapes at the National Academy of Design where he returned in 1929, 1930, and 1931. His activities at Woodstock (where he died in 1943) are not well known; apparently he was not involved with the artists’ colony there. Koeniger was a member of the Salmagundi Club.
Sources:
Muller, G. Frank, “Koeniger, Painter of Snow,” International Studio 81 (June 1925): 210-215; Zellman, Michael David, 300 Years of American Art. Secaucus, NJ: Wellfleet Press, 1987, p. 773.
Ken Knowles
Little Long Pond, MDI
12 x 24 Oil on Board
$2950
Ken Knowles
Winter Stream
24 x 30 Oil on Linen
Acadian Winter
by Brian Banks
$1200
Donald Allen Mosher
Winter Majesty, Jackson, NH
Oil on Canvas 18 x 20
$4500
House on Atlantic
8 x 16 Oil
Diane Scott
$900 Framed
Winter Morning, Maine
Dennis Poirier
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
$250
Winter in Blue Hill
Dennis Poirier
20 x 24 Oil on Canvas
$2650
Peter Bela Mayer (1887-1993)
Vermont Winter
10" x 14" oil, 16 x20 Framed
Peter Bela Mayer is primarily known for his impressionist works of the New England landscape and locations near his home on Long Island at Port Washington. He was born in Hungary and added the name Peter in the 1940s to avoid confusion with female painters. From 1908 to 1915, he studied at the National Academy of Design. He first earned public attention in 1914 when one of his pieces was shown at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC. During the 1920s, he exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Brooklyn Museum. Source: 300 Years of American Art, by Michael David Zellman
Walter C Hartson (1866-1946)
Winter Landscape with Houses
Oil on canvas, 16x20
In a frame measuring 22 x 26
Walter C Hartson, 1866-1946, was born in Iowa, studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, then in New York City, Holland and England. On his return from Europe he painted mainly in New York and New England including the Old Lyme and Litchfield Connecticut areas, exhibiting widely from the 1895 Atlanta Expo to Pennsylvania Academy, Chicago, National Academy of Design, Boston Art Club, Corcoran Gallery and more, and he won several prizes.
He lived in New York City early in the 20th century, settling upstate in Wassaic New York around 1917.In the 1930s he was honored in his mature years to be included in the New York State WPA Art Project, with its emphasis on artistic renderings of historic buildings to record them in their settings for posterity -- thus his late impressionist oils of old stone houses along rivers in New York's Columbia and Dutchess Counties. His work is in the permanent collection of the George Walter Vincent Smith Museum in Springfield MA. He is listed in Falk and other reference books such as Ness & Orwig "Iowa Artists of the First 100 Years".
Source: Peter Falk
JOHN WENTWORTH (1911-1993)
WINTER IN THE WOODS
OIL ON CANVAS BOARD, 10 X14”
COND. VERY GOOD, SIGNED LR.
$1600
Paul Wesley Arndt, 1881-1978.
Winter Stream, (oil on canvas, 21" x 27")
frame from Belgium 26.5" X 32.25".
$1200 framed
Jess Hobby 1871-1938
Spring Thaw
Oil on Board 16 x 20
$2500 Framed
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