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Allen Gilbert Cram
"Ranch Life" Colorful Autumn Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting on Board Frame

1925

$2,500
£1,895.75
€2,193.47
CA$3,533.84
A$3,939.55
CHF 2,054.64
MX$47,638.34
NOK 25,827.82
SEK 24,438.28
DKK 16,371.99

About the Item

A beautiful oil painting of an autumn landscape by Allen Gilbert Cram. The artist was an American impressionist painter known for his colorful landscapes depicting the times of his generation. This painting is a wonderful example of his work from the prime of his career. The painting depicts a vibrant autumn landscape where the artist captures a plein air scene of ranch life in the southwest. The scene features a rolling hillside covered with a mix of green, yellow, orange, and red foliage. In the meadow, the viewed can find scattered rocks and the iconic fences, also trees, including prominent evergreens, stand amidst the colorful foliage, adding texture and depth. A semi-cloudy sky with soft blue and white hues stretches above. The thick paint is noted with gestural brush strokes creating this marvelous view, with bold and expressive brushstrokes, giving the painting a lively, impressionistic feel. This painting is signed by the artist lower left, and it comes housed in an original gold tone plein air style antique wood frame with hanging wire on the verso ready to be displayed. Art measures 16 x 20 inches Frame measures 23.5 x 19.5 inches Allen Gilbert Cram was born in Washington, DC, on February 1, 1886, and he was a prolific painter, illustrator, and etcher. He was best known as a painter of desert scenes and western subjects. Essentially an illustrator, Mr. Cram has had experience in many fields of art, from the time when, as a fourteen-year-old boy, he studied with the noted William Chase.  As a young man, he traveled and studied abroad. Cram also studied with Frank DeHaven, William Merritt Chase, Chas H. Woodbury, Elizabeth Shurtleff, and at the Art Students League in New York City. He moved from Boston to San Diego, California, after 1926, and later lived in Santa Barbara, where he became a member of the Santa Barbara Art League. The work of Allen Gilbert Cram is refreshing to the eye with its vivid color and excellent draftsmanship. Most of his oil paintings present a bit of ranch life in the southwest in a brightly decorative style. His figures and animals scintillate under the bright sun or in the cool of the night; they move dramatically before the wide expanse of sky and desert. To create an impression of the vastness of the southwest region, in some of his canvases, Mr. Cram has chosen to treat large blank spaces in the sky and desert in poster style. In the night scenes, his color displays aesthetic pleasure with pronounced effectiveness. Important galleries in the east have held his exhibitions, and in 1914, he was given the Ruth Payne Burgess award by the Art Association of Newport. Cram participated in several exhibitions like the San Francisco Art Association in 1924 and 1932; the Paul Elder Gallery in San Francisco in 1927; and also the California State Fair in 1930. Cram died in Seattle, Washington, on May 8, 1947, and his works can be found in several collections, like the Santa Barbara Courthouse, the San Diego Museum, and a collection of his pencil drawings at Stanford University. PROVENANCE: Estate of a Private collection New Jersey; Private Collection Manhattan, New York; Lilac Gallery Collection. The piece will be stamped from Lilac Gallery on its verso.
  • Creator:
    Allen Gilbert Cram (1886 - 1947, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1925
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 23.5 in (59.69 cm)Width: 19.5 in (49.53 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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  • Period:
  • Condition:
    The artwork's board have some minor wear on the corners, probably from the plein air easel and ordinary wear from age, otherwise, the painting and its frame are in very good condition for the time period (please see listing pictures for the details).
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 0049321stDibs: LU98216822102

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