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“The Old Horse Cart”Circa 1965
Circa 1965
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Original watercolor on archival paper attributed to the very well known American realist artist Ogden Pleissner. Signed bottom right on unfinished watercolor verso. Unfinished watercolor is titled middle bottom “Vermont Homestead”, possibly the artist’s home as he lived in Vermont after the war. Condition of finished watercolor is excellent. Circa 1965.
Sheet size 15 by 23 inches. Sight size 13 by 21 inches. Overall framed size 21.5 by 29.5 inches in a barnwood rustic frame. Both sides of watercolor are matted and under glass. Provenance: A upstate New York estate.
Ogden M. Pleissner
Born New York, 1905
Died England, 1983
Ogden Pleissner was born in Brooklyn in 1905, and educated at the Friends School. Later, he studied figure painting and portraiture with Frank DuMond and Frederick J. Boston at Manhattan's Art Students League. Pleissner married Mary Corbett in Portland, Oregon in 1929. The couple settled in Brooklyn, as Pleissner took a position as a teacher as Pratt University for the next four years.
Pleissner began painting in watercolors in the 1930s. In 1932 the Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased an oil painting of Brooklyn Heights from him, an act that made him its youngest artist. In 1935, he taught at the National Academy and was elected an Associate and then Academician, all the while keeping various studios in Brooklyn and Manhattan. During World War II, he painted for the United States Air Force, and also illustrated the Normandy invasion for Life magazine. After his return from the war, he moved to Pawlet, Vermont where he built a house and kept a studio. In March of 1974 tragedy struck as Pleissner's wife, Mary, suddenly died. After three years of mourning his loss, Pleissner married again to Mary Marion Gould. The new couple moved to Manchester, Vermont that very same year. Pleissner died in London, England at age 78.
Pleissner's work is included in more than thirty public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and hangs in the offices of the Pentagon, West Point, and the Air Force Academy.
Memberships: National Academy; Society of American Etchers; Allied Artists of America; American Watercolor Society; Brooklyn Society of Artists; Century Association; Philadelphia Watercolor Club; Baltimore Watercolor Club; Salmagundi Club; Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts; Audubon Artists; Lyme Art Association
Exhibitions: Salons of America, 1923-25, 1928,1943; Corcoran Gallery Biennials, 1928-53 (9 times); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1928, 1933-49, 1952-53; Carnegie Institute; Art Institute of Chicago; National Academy of Design, 1959 (Altman Prize); American Watercolor Society, 1956 (gold); Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Arts Club, 1928-31 (prizes); Salmagundi Club, 1935 (prize), 1938 (prize); Whitney Museum of American Art, 1938-56; Hirschl and Adler Gallery, New York City, 1970s.
Works Held: Amon Carter Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum; Toledo Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Minneapolis Museum of Art; Swope Gallery; New Britain Museum; Canajoharie Museum; Reading Museum of Art; University of Nebraska; University of Idaho; High Museum of Art; Shelburne Museum, Vermont; Cincinnati Art Museum.
Reference Material: Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Vol. 1. Peter Hastings Falk, Georgia Kuchen and Veronica Roessler, eds.,Sound View Press, Madison, Connecticut, 1999. 3 Vols.; The Art of Ogden M. Pleissner, Peter Bergh, David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., Boston Massachusetts, 1984.
Biography courtesy of David Cook Gallery
- Attributed to:Ogden Pleissner (1905 - 1983, American)
- Creation Year:Circa 1965
- Dimensions:Height: 13 in (33.02 cm)Width: 21 in (53.34 cm)Depth: 1.25 in (3.18 cm)
- Medium:
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- Condition:Double sided. Both sides are under glass.
- Gallery Location:Southampton, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU14112471432
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