By Gerrit Beneker
Located in New York, NY
Gerrit Beneker (1882 - 1934)
Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, New England, 1926
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches
Signed, titled, and dated lower left
Provenance:
Louis H. Barnett, Fort Worth, Texas
In 1905, Gerrit Beneker began his art career as an illustrator. He married Flora Judd, his high school sweetheart from Grand Rapids and they moved to Brooklyn, NY. Gerrit's early passion was to create an art that would inspire and provide honor to the workingman. As such, he had no interest in painting portraits of pretty women, which were so often seen on the magazine covers of the day. Rather he wanted to seek out workingmen on the bridges, tunnels and skyscrapers of NYC, and paint them in their environments. He completed over 150 magazine covers, numerous ads including many for Ivory Soap...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings