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David Fredenthal
"Third Balcony" WPA American Scene Realism Mid 20th Century Modernism Concert
1937

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"Third Balcony" WPA American Scene Realism Mid 20th Century Modernism Concert David Fredenthal (1914-1958) "Third Balcony," 22 x 27 ½. Watercolor on paper. Signed, titled and dated 1937 lower left. BIO David Fredenthal (1914 - 1958) was one ot America's most respected watercolor artists. He was famous for his bold, intensely vigorous and complex paintings and drawings that expressed his deep feeling for excitement with life and living. He was a draftsman with seemingly a special gift for catching anything, physically and emotionally on the spot, and he never went anywhere without three or four loaded pens and a sketchbook in his pocket. As part of the WPA project he executed a number of murals including the Sports Pavilion on the Heinz Building of the New York World's Fair 1939. Some of his fresco and mural techniques were inspired by his friendship with Diego Rivera who had admired and encouraged him in the early 1930's. After he won a traveling scholarship to Europe from The Museum of Modern Art at age 19, he was the recipient of two Guggenheim grants in Painting. He had his first solo exhibition at the Downtown Gallery in New York in 1937 at age 23, and many others after that including the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1947. Because of Fredenthal's prodigious drawing gifts, he was chosen by Erskine Caldwell to illustrate his novel "Tobacco Road" in 1940. He was a War Artist Correspondent for both the State Department (the European and Asian fronts) and Life magazine from 1943 to 1946 and his work was featured in Life magazine regularly during the war and after until the end of his life. Also featured in Life in 1956 were drawings that Fredenthal had vividly recorded on his sketch pad, of the entire filming of the movie, The Pride and the Passion, starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, and Frank Sinatra, along the treacherous mountain passes of Spain. Though he was fiercely committed to an art that expressed deeply human social values and issues and was quite hostile to abstraction, he was friendly with a number of abstract artists such as David Smith, Ad Reinhardt, Philip Guston, Paul Feeley, and Herman Cherry.

Creator:
David Fredenthal (1914-1958, American)
Creation Year:
1937
Dimensions:
Height: 32 in (81.28 cm)Width: 38 in (96.52 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
Medium:
Paper,Watercolor
Movement & Style:
American Realist
Period:
1930-1939
Condition:
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1156210034632

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