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Christopher Gerlach
La Jolla, San Diego, Coastal Painting by Christopher Gerlach
1985

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$1,500List Price

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Christopher Gerlach (American, b. 1952) Sunset Eucalyptus: La Jolla, 1985 Oil on canvas 14 x 18 in. Framed: 17 7/8 x 22 in. Signed lower right: GERLACH Provenance: Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY Christopher Gerlach has been a practicing landscape painter and artist for thirty years, in the United States and Europe. He received formal training in academic draughtsmanship, life painting, and medical anatomy at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, at Oxford University. He received an award from the Royal Academy in London, and was appointed Murray Landscape Scholar to Oxford University in 1979. He also received a Masters of Fine Art from San Diego State University. Gerlach was committed to a revival of realism in the tradition of the Impressionist and Painterly Realist schools of France and turn-of-the-century America and Britain. He worked to study and master the techniques utilized by Monet, Sargent, Winslow Homer, Hassam, Robinson, and others. He revived working in situ, in the landscape in the plein-air method. He was the first plein-air artist to paint in the restored gardens of Claude Monet at Giverny, in 1981 through the generosity of the Versailles Foundation. He began his career exhibiting at the William Sawyer Gallery in San Francisco and lived there, and then in Santa Fe, in Santa Barbara, in Arizona, and finally in Southwestern Colorado, in Pagosa Springs. He exhibited widely in the United States, in New York, and a number of other galleries. His work is derived from the French Impressionists and the American Impressionists, and is called Painterly Realism. He was one of the first modern realists to work to revive the force and integrity of realism in painting, after it was long eclipsed by abstraction. He works both from life, in the form called "en plein air" and in the studio. His work varies in size from small intimate easel sized works, to very large installations. His palette, and choice of colors are bright, and focused on light, and a sense of time, place and atmosphere. His paintings are intended to evoke a cheerful, optimistic mood, a joy of life and of living and to bring to the viewer both the beauty of the natural world, and also the poignancy of some of the most compelling and colorful regions, France, the tropics, the high country of Colorado, and the sunny coasts of California. His paintings hang in museums and public collections, including the San Diego Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California and Buckingham Palace, and in many other public and private collections. Gerlach feels that artists have a social responsibility as well as an aesthetic one. He has been active in research for the improvement of social conditions, ecology, and support work for battered women and abused children. He works to support cultural preservation and revival for indigenous peoples in the USA and abroad. He has worked in government and community and urban planning. He does research and field work in Ecology, Forestry, Hydrology, and Integrative psychology, and is the author of a number of works on social and environmental issues, including ecology, indigenous culture and sovereignty, psychology, treatment of emotional stress and trauma, integrative and health. He works as a publisher, a researcher, a consultant on ethics and development in community planning, social issues, and is a publishing consultant, and advisor to a variety of private and community organizations. He also works in support of advocacy for the Fine Arts in the United States and in Europe, and has a continuing interest in preserving and maintaining the highest standards in teaching and education in both the practice of the creative arts and in art history and the preservation of artistic and architectural history. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1976 "Paintings from England and California." California State University, San Diego 1977 "Landscapes from England, Venice, and California." California State University, San Diego. 1978 "Views of Oxford," Trinity College, Oxford University, Oxford, England 1979 "Paintings from England, France and Greece," Trinity College, Oxford University 1980 "Landscapes of California and Europe," William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco 1981 "Paintings from Giverny," William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco 1982 "Images of the Southwest," William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco "Paintings from the Southwest," Jamison Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1984 "Recent Paintings," William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco 1985 "Recent Paintings," Fischbach Gallery, New York "Recent California Paintings," Orr's Gallery, San Diego, California 1987 "Recent Paintings," Fischbach Gallery, New York 1988 "The Cote d'Azur," William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, California 1990 "Paintings of Portugal and California," Orr's Gallery, San Diego "Recent Paintings," Fischbach Gallery, New York. "Recent Paintings," Mackenzie Gallery, Seattle, Washington "Paintings of California and France," William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco "Paintings of Santa Barbara and Elsewhere," Easton Gallery, Montecito, CA 1992 "Christopher Gerlach," Fountain Hills Community Center, Fountain Hills, AZ "California, Europe and Places In Between; Paintings by Christopher Gerlach", Retrospective Exhibition at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California. GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1979 " The Group of Four," San Diego State University, San Diego 1979 "California Artists," Mesa College, San Diego "Diploma Exhibition," Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University 1981 "Landscape Painting," William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco "Inspired by Landscape," Tranamerica Corporation, San Francisco and Los Angeles 1983 "Exhibition II," Fine Arts Museum of San Antonio, Texas 1985 "American Realism," William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco "Important American Paintings," Orr's Gallery, San Diego "Contemporary Art for Your Collection," La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art La Jolla, California 1986 "The Contemporary American Landscape," Swain Galleries, Plainfield, NJ 1987-88 "Art and the Law," Traveling Exhibition: Albrecht Art Museum, St Joseph Missouri: The Lowe Gallery at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York; the Bass Museum, Miami, Florida, and the Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota, organized by the West Publishing Company. 1988 "Utopian Visions," organized by the Art Advisory Service of the Museum of Modern Art for Gannet Company, New York. 1989-90 "Documenting a Moment: Contemporary Plein Air Landscape," Tatistcheff Gallery, Inc. Santa Monica, California 1988 "American Beach Paintings," Tampa Museum, Tampa, Florida. SELECTED COLLECTIONS San Diego Museum of Fine Art, San Diego Oakland Museum of California Balliol College, Oxford University Pepperdine University, Malibu Queen Elizabeth II, Buckingham Palace, London H. M. King Faisal, Royal Palace, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Lord and Lady Blake, Queen's College, Oxford University The Ritz Carlton Hotel, Laguna Niguel Trinity College, Oxford University

Creator:
Christopher Gerlach (1952, American)
Creation Year:
1985
Dimensions:
Height: 17.875 in (45.41 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Oil
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
1980-1989
Condition:
Scuff near top and some cracking but overall good condition.
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU2211211969632

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