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Frederick Lester Sexton"White Horse" Frederick Lester Sexton, Bucolic Barn, Farm Scene, White Horsecirca 1930s
circa 1930s
About the Item
Frederick Lester Sexton
White Horse
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches
Provenance
Part of a Collection received from the Lyme Art Association.
Frederick Lester Sexton received a lot of reviews and exhibitions in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, when he was at the height of his career. Because it captured the personal view of many people's wish to ignore national issues and simply live their lives in their homes, his work was favorably welcomed. The rise of modernist styles like Abstract Expressionism, which started to take over the American art scene in the 1950s, also contributed to Sexton's fall in popularity. As collectors and regular spectators discover once more that realism is a valid component of American art because it speaks directly and clearly to the beauty they perceive in their surroundings, many artists, like Sexton, are experiencing a renaissance.
Cheshire, Connecticut, was the birthplace of Frederick Sexton in 1889. His father, J. Frederick Sexton, was the Rector of St. Peter's Church in Cheshire and a well-known Episcopal clergyman. The mother, Mary Louise Lester, was an amateur painter and came from a pretty well-known Hartford family. Frederick was killed in an open-hearth fire when he was eighteen months old. His right hand was badly burned and was never to be opened again. The father kept the family together after his mother passed away when he was nineteen.
Sexton's mother taught him art, and he went to public schools in New Haven. He received the prestigious Winchester Prize for a year of study in Spain while attending the Yale School of Fine Art, where he studied under Augustus Tack and Sargent Kendall. In addition, he was awarded the John Weir Scholarship for independent study. He was twenty-eight years old when he graduated in 1917, clearly older than the majority of his classmates. But to pay for his schooling, he had taken on a variety of jobs, including teaching woodworking in the public schools of New Haven. He fell in love with Dorothy Joyce, his future wife, who was equally devoted to the Episcopalian Church as he was.
Sexton received praise for his efficient job as an ambulance driver in France during World War I. He traveled extensively over Europe and was impacted by the numerous paintings he viewed in galleries and museums, particularly Cezanne's modernist pieces.
When one of his works was displayed at the New Haven Paint and Clay Club in 1922, he gained his first notoriety as an artist. He became one of the Club's first active members after being invited to join. Additionally, he became actively involved with the Old Lyme Art Colony in Old Lyme, Connecticut, and started going there on a regular basis to paint in the late 1920s. Due to the Old Lyme Art Association's membership requirements of land ownership and residency for a specific number of weeks of the year, he was unable to join the Lyme Art Association despite his affiliation with its members.
He purchased land from Guy Wiggins because he wanted to join, started construction on a house in 1936, and was soon elected a member. When the restrictions were altered years later to allow artists who resided within 25 miles to become members, he became extremely irate.
Sexton was also involved in the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, a state-level organization and exhibitor that aimed to foster collaboration between all of the state's art associations. Sexton was also elected to the Salmagundi Club in New York.
- Creator:Frederick Lester Sexton (1889-1975, American)
- Creation Year:circa 1930s
- Dimensions:Height: 29 in (73.66 cm)Width: 34 in (86.36 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:Unique workPrice: $9,600
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1841216085312
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