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Johann Berthelsen, 1883-1972
'Trinity Church from Wall Street', New York, Salmagundi Club, AWCS, AIC
Circa 1955

About the Item

Signed lower right, 'Johann Berthelsen' (American, 1883-1972) and painted circa 1940. Original artist supply label, verso, from Greenwald Inc, New York. Previously with William Doyle Galleries, New York (label, verso). Provenance: Private collection, San Francisco. A snowy, winter's view of New York's financial district showing the spire of Trinity Church viewed from Wall Street. John Quincy Ward's bronze statue of George Washington stands to the right in front of the Neo-Classical facade of Federal Hall with the New York Stock Exchange on the left. Born in Copenhagen, Johann Berthelsen, emigrated with his parents to America at the age of seven. At eighteen, he entered the Chicago Music College with a full scholarship to study voice, graduating in 1905 as a fully trained baritone. After graduation, Berthelsen joined a light opera company and began touring throughout the United States and Canada. He spent a long five years in the limelight of the theatre, until 1910, when he returned to his alma mater to join the faculty as a voice instructor. Berthelsen would remain in this position until 1913. This teaching position allowed Berthelsen to pursue his interest in the visual arts. It was during this period that Berthelsen came into contact with the Norwegian painter, Svend Rasmussen Svendsen, who had immigrated to Chicago in 1881 and established himself as a popular artist. When Berthelsen relocated to Indianapolis in 1913 to lead of the voice department of the Indianapolis Conservatory of Music, he began training under the Indiana-born artist Wayman Elbridge Adams. During his tenure in Indianapolis, Berthelsen and Adams became close friends and, in 1920, they moved to New York City to be join the thriving arts community there. It was at this time that Berthelsen began to paint the New York cityscapes that displayed his characteristically sensitive rendering of changing environmental elements. Berthelsen's mature style shows the influence of previous American Impressionists such as Childe Hassam, but also invokes the legacy of French Impressionism. Although Berthelsen never studied in France, French Impressionist works were exhibited in America beginning with the Galerie Durand-Ruel show in 1886 in New York. By Berthelsen’s time, French Impressionist art was could be viewed in galleries across the country. Perhaps more significant for him, however, was nearby access to the substantial Impressionist collection at the Art Institute of Chicago which had formed the core of the museum's collection from its earliest days. In 1942, with his reputation as a painter growing and with the patronage of well-known collectors including Willam Randolph Hearst, Berthelsen moved his family to rural Connecticut. The surrounding countryside provided subject matter for new paintings and an idyllic place to raise his family. With the 1960s came greater success and, as the children left for for college, the Berthelsens moved to an apartment on Sutton Place and a house Greenwich, Connecticut. Johann Berthelsen was a member of the Salmagundi Club, the American Watercolor Society and the Allied Artists of America. He exhibited widely and with success including at the Art Institute of Chicago and was the recipient of numerous awards and prizes including in the Erskine Prize (Chicago, 1928) and the Holcombe Prize (Indianapolis, 1946). The artist's work is held in numerous private and public collections including in the permanent collections of the Hickory Museum of Art, the Terre Haute Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Sheldon Swope Art Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art, among others. The artist is listed in all relevant art reference books including Who's Who in American Art, which provides a signature sample. Reference: Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 1, page 301; E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 2, page 210-211; Vollmer Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler des 20. Jarhhunderts, Hans Vollmer, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, Vol. 1, page 193; Mallett’s Index of Artists, Daniel Trowbridge Mallett, Peter Smith: New York 1948 Edition, R.R. Bowker Company 1935, page 34; Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, Glen B. Opitz, Apollo Press 1983, page 71; et al.

Creator:
Johann Berthelsen, 1883-1972 (1883 - 1972, American)
Creation Year:
Circa 1955
Dimensions:
Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Width: 9 in (22.86 cm)Depth: 0.13 in (3.31 mm)
Medium:
Oil,Canvas
Movement & Style:
Impressionist
Period:
1940-1949
Condition:
painting: oil on canvas board; minor restoration totaling less than one-half of 1% of the surface area; frame: minor restoration.
Gallery Location:
Santa Cruz, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU34414140172

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