Ross Eugene Braught Prints and Multiples

Clear Creek Canyon I, black and white modernist landscape of Colorado mountains is an original vintage 1933 signed lithograph by Ross Braught (1898-1983). Presented in a custom frame with all archival materials and UV protectant/anti glare glass, outer dimensions measure 26 ¼ x 31 ½ x 1 ½ inches. Image size is 16 x 23 inches. Painter, lithographer and draftsman, Ross Eugene Braught was called "the greatest living American draftsman" during his lifetime by his friend and colleague, Thomas Hart Benton. The son of an artist who had acquired some formal training in Baltimore and enjoyed a short-lived art career in Carlisle, Pennsylania, Braught graduated Carlisle High School where his early drawings of trees anticipated his mature, professional talent. He went on to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, studying with Joseph T. Pearson, Jr., and with Daniel Garber, American Impressionist landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. Garber's influence can be seen in Braught's painting, Landscape near Upper Black Eddy (1921). In 1921 the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts awarded Braught its prestigious William Emlem Cresson Memorial Traveling Scholarship, allowing him to travel, study and paint for two years in England, France and Italy. Two extant paintings from that trip are his Brittany Village (1922) and an Italian Landscape (1923). Following his return to the United States he married Eugenia Osenton, and the couple lived for five years in Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania, a secluded place of peace and beauty on the Delaware River north of Philadelphia. During that time he participated in exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, as well at the National Academy of Design and the Society of Independent Artists in New York. In 1925 he had his first one-man show at New York's Dudensing Gallery. He also showed in the 1920s with the Mystic Art Association in Connecticut and painted in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He and his wife moved in 1928 to Woodstock, New York, where he became a member of the local art colony. Both of them had prior connections with some of its resident artists - his wife from Robert Henri's circle at the Art Students League and both of them from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's popular sketch club in New York which they had attended. In Woodstock Braught developed his interest in lithography through his association with lithographer Grant Arnold. Arnold also ran a press in the basement of the Woodstock Arts Association printing editions for Yasuo Kuniyoshi, John Carroll and Karl Fortress, among others. Braught did several excellent lithographs in Woodstock -- Kingston: Ten Miles, End of the Cape, Road Grader...

"Mako Sica" translates to "land bad" in Lakota (Sioux). Housed in a custom frame with archival materials and Museum Glass (UV Protection/Anti-reflective). Outer dimensions measure 20.75 x 22 x 1.25 inches; image dimensions measure 12.75 x 14.25 inches. Provenance: Collection of Eric Bransby (artist) About the Artist: After a successful career as an artist and educator, Ross Braught disappeared from view for the last two decades of his life, leaving only a post office box...