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Kenneth NunamakerHouse in Center Bridge
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Kenneth Nunamaker (1890-1957)
House in Center Bridge
Oil on canvas on board, 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Signed lower left: K. Nunamaker
Inscribed on verso: K. Nunamaker / New Hope, Pa / R.D. Center Bridge. / Back in the country / $50 / NH 3397
Provenance
The artist;
Private collection, Pennsylvania, until 2000;
Private collection, Pennsylvania, until 2025
Kenneth Nunamaker never took a formal art lesson. His “training” began during his travels out West as a young man, where he painted in his spare time. It continued informally throughout his career in commercial art, as he took sketching and painting excursions in the countryside. He said he acquired “the rudiments of design, form, color, and composition in the hard schools of commercial art studios.” But despite this experience the artist’s strongest artistic foundations came from a direct observation of nature. He often spoke of translating the landscape around him into shapes on the canvas.
Nunamaker moved to Philadelphia and not long after bought a home along the Delaware River at Center Bridge. There he met Edward Redfield, a guiding force behind the New Hope School of painting, who painted nearby. Redfield mentored Nunamaker, meeting with him weekly and reviewing his work. Nunamaker also befriended Daniel Garber and several other artists affiliated with the New Hope School, and soon became a prominent member of the artists' community. Among this group and to most of the people who knew him Nunamaker was beloved.
In House in Center Bridge the artist’s direct observation of nature is apparent in his mastery of light and shadow. He translates the shapes of nature onto the canvas and creates a composition that is at once balanced and fluid. Nunamaker also deftly builds the landscape with color and does not get lost in extraneous details. House in Center Bridge also captures the magic of a familiar place. Important to the New Hope School was the desire to paint the bucolic landscape of Bucks County in a way that spoke to the artist’s intimate knowledge of the area. Nunamaker’s active engagement with the landscape is revealed not only in his choice of subject matter but also in the way he painted it.
- Creator:Kenneth Nunamaker (1890 - 1957, American)
- Dimensions:Height: 8 in (20.32 cm)Width: 10 in (25.4 cm)
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- Condition:Excellent condition. The canvas has been recently cleaned. There is no evidence of inpaint or restoration under UV light.
- Gallery Location:Bryn Mawr, PA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2773216311372
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