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Ernest David Roth
Antibes

c. 1940

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Antibes. c. 1940. Oil on canvas laid down on board.x 8 7/8 x 9/8 . Fresh, bright colors. Signed E.D. Roth, lower left. Housed in an elegant 12 1/2 x 13 3/4 gold frame. Antibes is a seaside city in the Alpes-Maritimes department in Southeastern France. It is located on the French Riviera between Cannes and Nice; its cape, the Cap d'Antibes, along with Cap Ferrat to the northeast, is one of the best known landforms in the area. Ernest David Roth was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1879 and, at the age of five, immigrated with his parents to the United States. He studied painting at the National Academy of Design under George Maynard and Edgar Ward and at the New York School of Art under F. Luis Mora. Roth was a regular contributor to shows at the National Academy and the Pennsylvania Academy. In his painting and etching, Roth concentrated on simple architectural views, rarely including people in his scenes. He has received awards from the Salmagundi Club in 1911, 1912, 1915, 1917 and 1918, from the Chicago Society of Etchers in 1914 and 1936, from the Society of American Etchers in 1935 and from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1930. He received a silver medal for etching and a bronze medal for painting at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915. Antibes is a Mediterranean coastal town in the south of France just west of Nice and Monte Carlo. Roth made an etching of the Chateau Grimaldi in Antibes, France. The Chateau is shown at the back of the painting. Roth studied painting at the National Academy of Design under Edgar Ward and George Maynard and at the New York School of Art under F. Luis Mora. He began as a landscape painter and was a regular contributor to the shows at the National Academy and at the Pennsylvania Academy. His geometric and richly colored paintings received numerous awards. His works are included in such renowned collections as the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Art Institute of Chicago; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Uffizi Gallery, Florence; Brooklyn Museum, NY; and the NY Public Library. Roth was a master printer as well as etcher, and he printed etchings for other artist, notably John Sloan. He also printed William Blake's large etching of The Pilgrimage to Canterbury.
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