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Ralph Eugene Della-VolpeBeach Parking Lot1968
1968
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This impressive and unique beach related abstraction has a lovely soft peach color palette. Inspired by his experience in Normandy France during the war, Della-Volpe has turned a real life experience and memory into a cool avant-garde abstraction. He recalled that the parking area to the beach was torn up and there were signs and he melded these fractional memories into this unforgettable composition.
An incredibly airy work to hang in a large area and create a contemporary and jazzy feel.
Ralph Eugene Della-Volpe's semi-abstract paintings of often simplified beach scenes and anonymous portraits "convey profound awareness of mood and character", and his paintings are hardly as literal as they may first appear. Constantly transforming what is on the canvas, the artist is never sure himself of the final composition of each work until completion because, as he says, "Everything I paint is based on my own feelings about life, my own insights, my own observations and my own needs for expression."
Della-Volpe first studied painting at the National Academy of Design before joining the Army during World War II. As a soldier, the artist saw action on Utah Beach, and his experiences undoubtedly affected his later artistic style. Tom Wolf, of Bard College, explained that the paintings Della-Volpe produced after his return from service in World War II “project feelings of melancholy.” expressed in the tense expressions in the figures’ faces. The “coloristic exuberance” found in the works beginning in the mid 1960’s, with their vibrant fuscias and yellows, seem to offset what could be an otherwise solemn tone to many of his works at the time.
Upon his return from military service, Della-Volpe took a teaching position as the first artist-in-residence at Bennett College in Millbrook, New York where he remained for 28 years, serving as chairman of the Art Department for most of that time. Obviously influenced by impressionism's preoccupation with the treatment of light, Volpe's own works have a "faultless tonal quality, with its sense of failing light - the areas of silvery gray deepening into rosy tans". The simplified scenes and portraits express the artist's love of open space and his aim to evoke emotion through each piece rather than recognition of what exactly is painted on the canvas. Della-Volpe has exhibited widely throughout his career and has lectured on art at colleges, universities, and galleries across the country.
- Creator:Ralph Eugene Della-Volpe (1923, American)
- Creation Year:1968
- Dimensions:Height: 72.75 in (184.79 cm)Width: 72.75 in (184.79 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Condition:Lovely condition. Nothing to note that is not age appropriate to time period - ready to hang!
- Gallery Location:Greenwich, CT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1413210569202
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