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Emil Armin
House on the Hillside in the Trees - Watercolor on Paper
1911

Name: House on the Hillside in the Trees - Watercolor on Paper
Brand: Emil Armin
Rating: 5 (354 reviews)

$1,350List Price

About the Item

Boldly colored watercolor landscape by Emil Armin (American/Rumanian, 1882-1972). A house with a bright red roof is nestled between some trees at the bottom of a hillside. The trees are depicted as large, voluminous shapes, giving them a solid presence in the composition. Signed "E. Armin '11" in the lower left corner. Presented in a wood frame with a mat. Frame size: 29"H x 33"W Image size: 18.75"H x 22.5"W Born in Rumania on April 1, 1883, Emil Armin studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's evening classes under Dudley Crafts Watson, Randall Davey and George Bellows, then he graduated in 1920. Between 1922 and 1949 he exhibited his works at the Art Institute annuals and was involved in the No-Jury Society, organized in 1922. At that time he was immersed in Chicago's bohemian 57th Street Art Colony and he experimented with sculpture and decorative arts as a member of the Chicago Society of Artists. He taught at Chicago's Hull House (1925-26) and did cartoons full of angular forms and a particular method of shading and "zigzag outlining" taken from German Expressionist masters, for the Chicago Literary Times, a journal created by Maxwell Bodenheim and Ben Hecht. Samuel Putnam, a critic for the Chicago Evening Post (21 September 1926) regarded Armin as "perhaps the most finely sensitized artist in Chicago . . . with the soul of a peasant and the mind of a philosopher." In 1928 Armin traveled to New Mexico where he executed a naïve, child-like woodcut, Mountain Farm, Santa Fe (Art Institute). Chicago critic Bulliet's characterization of Armin as a "primitive" in impulses, "though sophisticated and intelligent" applies here: "His work resembles somewhat the peasant art of Middle Europe, with American motifs." (C.J. Bulliet, Apples and Madonnas: Emotional Expression in Modern Art. New York: Covici-Friede, 1930, p. 236). A year later came his oil on canvas, My Neighbors (National Museum of American Art), which recalls Joan Miró, Matisse and the German Expressionists. A famous work from 1930 is The Open Bridge (Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL); that year the Art Institute gave him a one-man show. At that time he claimed, "My paintings are all architecture. Every part has to hold up every other part like the walls of a building." (Chicago Herald and Examiner, 23 February 1930). Another solo show followed at the Kansas City Art Institute a year later. In 1931-32 Armin taught at the Jewish Peoples Institute. He wrote a statement in J.Z. Jacobson's Art of Today: Chicago 1933 (Chicago: L.M. Stein, 1932, p. 40): like many modern artists he sought to "unlearn" what he had been taught in art school, to convey a more genuine inner expression. Armin participated in the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) during the Depression years, and in the "easel section" of the WPA. In the mid 30s he was still with the 57th Street Art Colony some of whose members painted at the Indiana Dunes. The Renaissance Society in Chicago honored Armin with another one-man show in 1949. In the 50s he discovered the charms of painting in Mexico. Armin died on July 2, 1971 at the age of eighty-eight. More recently, the Illinois State Museum organized a special exhibition in 1980 that included seventy-two of his works.

Creator:
Emil Armin (1883 - 1972, American, Romanian)
Creation Year:
1911
Dimensions:
Height: 29 in (73.66 cm)Width: 33 in (83.82 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
Medium:
Paper,Watercolor
Movement & Style:
American Impressionist
Period:
Early 20th Century
Condition:
Artwork is in good condition. Frame has some minor loss of paint that has been minimized (but frame cannot be restored to original condition and is included as-is). New hanging hardware installed.
Gallery Location:
Soquel, CA
Reference Number:
Seller: DBH82401stDibs: LU54211048042

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