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Robert PhilippRehearsal, "Long Day's Journey Into Night" — Mid-Century American Impressionismc. 1957
c. 1957
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Robert Philipp, 'Rehearsal, "Long Day's Journey Into Night" ', color pastel, c. 1957. Unsigned. A fine, atmospheric rendering, on warm gray charcoal paper; a reinforced crease (1/2 inch) across the bottom left sheet corner; otherwise in very good condition. Image and sheet size 17 1/2 x 21 3/4 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Provenance: Art Students League, from the artist’s personal portfolio.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Philipp (1895–1981) was a celebrated American Post-Impressionist painter known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits. Noted art critic Henry McBride named Philipp one of America's top six painters of his generation. Philipp was an instructor of painting at the Art Students League, New York, for 33 years. Philipp was Secretary of the National Academy of Design, a National Academician, and a Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in London. His composition and painting style has been compared to the art of Edgar Degas and Pierre Auguste Renoir.
In 1940, Philipp was invited to Los Angeles by Hollywood producer Louis B. Mayer to paint portraits of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie stars. The same year, Walter Wanger, producer of ‘The Long Voyage Home’, directed by John Ford and based on plays by Eugene O'Neill, contracted with Reeves Lewenthal, head of the Associated American Artists gallery in Manhattan, to bring nine well-known artists to the set and paint scenes from the movie and portraits of the actors in character. The artists included Robert Philipp, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Ernest Fiene, George Schreiber, Luis Quintanilla, George Biddle, Raphael Soyer, and James Chapin. Life magazine featured and exhibited the works produced in New York and 23 museums nationwide. During the same period, Philipp painted portraits of celebrities associated with the 'Golden Age of Hollywood', including Clark Gable, Shirley Temple, Margaret Sullavan, Ian Hunter, Thomas Mitchell, and Mayer's daughter, Edith Mayer Goetz, wife of William Goetz, co-owner of 20th Century Fox.
Robert Philipp was the receipient of numerous prizes in many important art exhibitions of his time including the National Academy of Design, Second Hallgarten Prize (1922); the Chicago Art Institute, First Prize and Logan Gold Medal (1936); Carnegie International, First Honorable Mention (1937); the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., Corcoran Silver Medal and Clarke Prize (1939); International Business Machine Corporation, Honorary Award and Medal for Distinction and Contribution to American Art (1939); Academician, National Academy of Design (1945); the National Academy of Design, Thomas B. Clark Prize (1947); the National Academy of Design, Purchase Award (1950); the National Academy of Design, First Altman Prize (1951); Laguna Beach Art Association Festival, First Prize (1951); the Art Directors Club Medal of Merit (1954); the National Arts Club, New York, Gold Medal (1955); Allied Artists of America, Bronze Medal (1958); Audubon Artists, Emily Lowe Award (1959); Allied Artists of America Prize (1960); the National Academy of Design, Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Award; the Salmagundi Club, New York, Prize (1960); the National Academy of Design, Benjamin Altman Prize (1962), Gloria Layton Memorial Prize (1966); and the American Watercolor Society, William Church Osborne Award (1967).
Works by Robert Philipp are held in museum collections throughout the United States, including the Akron Art Institute, Brooklyn Museum, Columbus Museum of Art (Georgia), Corcoran Gallery, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dayton Art Institute (Ohio), Encyclopædia Britannica Collection (Chicago), The High Museum of Art (Atlanta), IBM Corporate Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seton Hall University, The High Museum of Art (Atlanta), University of Arizona, University of Illinois, Telfair Museum of Art (Savannah), and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
- Creator:Robert Philipp (1895-1981, American)
- Creation Year:c. 1957
- Dimensions:Height: 17.5 in (44.45 cm)Width: 21.75 in (55.25 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Myrtle Beach, SC
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Robert Philipp
Robert Philipp was a portrait, figure and still-life painter. He painted celebrities, landscapes and nudes. Philipp often used his wife, Shelby Post, as a model in his paintings. His concepts and teaching methods inspired several students whom he taught at the Art Students League in New York from 1948–73 and at the National Academy of Design from 1950–75. Philipp's works are on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum in New York.
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