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This museum quality and rare American Impressionist garden scene is in an exceptional gilt frame. The dimensions listed are for the item in total framed size. The canvas inside the frame measures 20 x 14.
Hollyhocks is a very fine example of Grave’s interest in Colonial Revival gardens. Beginning as early as 1876, avid gardeners and architects took an interest in 18th century gardens, fine English cottage gardens and Italian approaches to gardening spurring an avid renaissance of creating constructed beds and perennial gardens based on historic studies of European gardens. Graves took an interest in doing what could be termed “Garden portraiture”, capturing gardens and foliage around the architecture of a fine home. He became well recognized and sought after for these pastel and lively Impressionisticly rendered vignettes. He was known to do them in the Kennebunkport, Maine area, in New Hampshire, Gloucester, Massachussetts and other New England locations. He lived in Maine and would paint locally and then received commissions to do wealthy people’s gardens and often included the owner of the garden in the painting as well.
This museum quality and rare American Impressionist garden scene is in an exceptional gilt frame.
Graves returned from a long trip in France in 1905, and it was then that he began to render these outdoor garden views. He continued with them into the 1930’s. It is difficult to date this painting. The brushwork is a bit smaller and refined than his work moving toward and into the 1930’s. It could be pre – 1920 but a circa date of 1920 is a broad approach to dating it. It is also difficult to determine where in New England it is although it is clearly a well built architectural home with a view toward the magnificent 2nd floor patio.
- Creator:Abbott Fuller Graves (1859-1936, American)
- Creation Year:undated
- Dimensions:Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Greenwich, CT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1413210437772
Abbott Fuller Graves
Abbott Fuller Graves was an American painter and illustrator who specialized in decorative open air garden paintings and floral still lifes. His use of thick brushstrokes, bright colors, and natural light shows the influence of European impressionism. Graves was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1859, the son of James Griswold Graves and Eliza Nicholls (Fuller). Hoping to become an architect, Graves attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology but did not graduate. Graves went to Paris and Italy in 1884 to refine his skills as a flower painter. In Europe, he roomed with Edmund C. Tarbell. After returning to Boston in 1885, Graves became a teacher at the Cowles Art School, where his friend Childe Hassam was also on the faculty. The two painters undoubtedly influenced one another. In 1887, Graves returned to Paris to study figure painting at the Academie Julien. Graves returned to Boston in 1891, and lived in the coastal town of Kennebunkport, Maine, where he taught painting classes in oil and watercolor. He continued to visit there in later years, painting genre scenes featuring farmers, fishermen, firemen and old sea captains of Kennebunkport. Many of his portrayals of small-town life were reproduced on calendars and postcards. After 1891, the majority of Graves's works depict gardens and floral landscapes, some including female figures. Some portray exotic gardens of Spain and South America. In 1891, he opened his own art school in Boston. The school later moved to Kennebunk, Maine. From 1902 to 1905, Graves was employed as a commercial illustrator for magazines and studied at the Académie Vitti in Paris. After 1922, Graves spent his winters in New York City, where he belonged to such organizations as the National Academy of Design, the National Arts Club, the Salmagundi Club and Allied Artists of America. Examples of Graves’s work can be found in public and private collections across the country, including the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, the Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York; the Brick Store Museum, Kennebunk, Maine; Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, Indiana; the Hermitage Foundation Museum, Norfolk, Virginia; and the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey.
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