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PAINTINGS / WORKS ON PAPER:
Our interest in painting is primarilty in American Folk Art with self taught artists and those that clearly had some training - either academic or an apprenticeship - those that may have been an itinerant painter and those that strove to go beyond craft and create works of art. Maine Farm and Corn Field
Uriah Dyer (Appleton, ME, 1849-1927)
Dated: 1870
Size: 24" x 18" (sight) | 28 1/4" x 22 1/4" (frame)Great stylized landscape of a working farm with a red saltbox house on slightly hilly land, a dirt road leading to two large barns and corn crops. A bright blue sky arches above and gives the feeling that the whole is within a globe. Note how the world "ends" at the far right of the fence!
Emile Branchard (New York, 1881-1938)
Oil on artist board
Circa: 1925
Size: 15" x 11 1/2" (sight) | 18" x 14 1/2" (frame)Moody landscape with inventive composition—denuded trees in the immediate foreground and an ascending tree line in the middle ground.
Branchard was a truck driver in NYC and after contracting tuberculosis began painting. After a successful showing at the "Society of Independent Artists Exhibition" of 1919, he gained a reputation as a leading primitivist of the 1920-1930's showing alongside Milton Avery, Henri Rousseau, Stuart Davis, Max Weber, the Zorach's, and others.HUNGRY GULL
James W. Washington, Jr. (American 1909-2000)
Dated: 1977
Size: 7 3/8" L x 5 5/8" HWashington occasionally did wood block prints - they are the perfect compliment to his sculpture - the carved lines of the wood block echo his carving of stone.
J.M.W. Turner's Silver Mounted Smoky Agate Snuffbox
Dated: 1785
Size:2 1/4" x 2 1/4" x 1"A small octagonal snuffbox, the top and bottom set with a smoky quartz agate. The sides etched, "JOSEPH MALLARD WILLIAM TURNER / 1785."
J.M.W. Turner, RA (1775-1851), an inveterate snuffer (he was even known to mix it in his paint), is arguably England's most esteemed (and controversial) landscape painter. Turner's talent developed early and in his early teens was selling works in his father's barber shop. As acclaim for his talent met with financial reward, Turner took to experimentation and challanged traditional conventions - his landscapes became moody, romanic, impressionistic and often resembled colorfield abstractions (much like this smoky agate).
J. W. JOHNSTON FOUND DEAD BROADSIDE
Wood block printing on haevy paper mounted on old canvas
Dated: 1870
Size: 44" H x 31" W"J.W. JOHNSTON THE GREAT LAND DEALER FOUND DEAD IN THE CENTER OF JEFFERSON AVENUE BY TWO JET BLACK MONGUAGONS!" John W. Johnson was a famous land speculator in the Detroit, Michigan area. He printed this broadside to catch peoples attention and to have them read about the land developments advertised underneath the headline. The language in the fine print is quite funny, paraphrasing, it more/less says that if you do not buy a home for for family you are not really providing for your kids and they will become delinquents and resent you when you get old (see more below: "will curse your bones when they live in the state prisons or houses of prostitution, because you did not secure for them a home"). Great graphics/language (if not some arcane - Monguagon was an area outside of Detroit and "in a horn" was slang for "it's a hoax").
Have not been able to find another recorded example.
Old Covered Bridge Between Randolph & Gardiner
George E. Morgan (1870-1969)
Oil on paper
Dated: July 1962
Size: 10" x 14Signed and dated on verso: George E. Morgan, July 1962.
Select Exhibitions: Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME, "George E. Morgan: Self Taught Painter of Maine" July 16 - October 11, 1998; The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, IL, "George E. Morgan: Maine Streets" February 5 - April 10, 1999.
ARCTIC SCENE
Ralph Redpath
Oil on panel
Dated: 1866
Size: 16"H x 23 3/4"W (sight)Superb folk art whaling scene with upturned boat and men spilling out - ominous iceberg towering in the back. Signed/dated lower right and signed/dated and titled in graphite on back.
A work identified by Redpath, Mounting of the Guard, is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, a Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbish 1955.11.3.
HUDSON RIVER SCENE
Ralph Redpath
Oil on tin
Circa: 1868
Size: 12"H x 18"W (sightRedpath was a Mohawk Valley artist who worked in a manner similar in style to Thomas Chambers.
A work identified as Redpath is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, a Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbish 1955.11.3.
BRIDGE DIVIDING KENNEBEC RIVER
George E. Morgan (1870-1969)
Oil on canvas board
Dated: July 1963
Size: 16" x 12"Signed and dated on verso: George E. Morgan, July 1963.
Select Exhibitions: Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME, "George E. Morgan: Self Taught Painter of Maine" July 16 - October 11, 1998; The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, IL, "George E. Morgan: Maine Streets" February 5 - April 10, 1999.
Literature: "George E. Morgan: Self Taught Maine Artist," FOLK ART MAGAZINE, Summer 1998, p.30 by Chippy Irvine.
MOULTON MILL
George E. Morgan (1870-1969)
Oil on canvas board
Dated: January 1963
Size: 20" x 16"Signed, titled and dated on verso: George E. Morgan, Moulton Mill, Moulton ME, January 1963.
Select Exhibitions: Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME, "George E. Morgan: Self Taught Painter of Maine" July 16 - October 11, 1998; The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, IL, "George E. Morgan: Maine Streets" February 5 - April 10, 1999.
Literature: "George E. Morgan: Self Taught Maine Artist," FOLK ART MAGAZINE, Summer 1998, p.30 by Chippy Irvine.
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