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An American Queen Anne Painted Wing Chair Possibly New Hampshire
Located in Sheffield, MA
Of typical form with shaped wings and cabriole legs ending in pad feet
Height 49 in.
Height 49 in.
Category
18th Century and Earlier Antique Berkshires
Pair of French Carved Fruitwood Armchairs
Located in Great Barrington, MA
Pair of beautiful and very comfortable French armchairs with original cotton velvet upholstery. The well constructed frame is made of hardw...
Category
Early 20th Century French Berkshires
Murano Pink Cased Light Shade with Controlled Bubbles attributed Barovier
By Barovier&Toso
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This fabulous large, handblown Murano pink cased light shade with controlled bubbles and undulating rim can be used either as a hanging shade or mounted upr...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Blown Glass
Burmantofts Faience "Aesthetic Movement" Plaque 19th c.
By Burmantofts Pottery
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This extremely large Faience pottery plaque is the epitome of the "Aesthetic Movement" style at it's best! Thick impasto enamels create a 3-dimensional effect of flowers rising out o...
Category
19th Century English Antique Berkshires
A Fine French Aubusson Carpet
Located in Sheffield, MA
18 ft. 8 in. by 16 ft. 8 in.
Category
19th Century French Antique Berkshires
A Fine Pair of Baroque Giltwood Two Arm Altar Sticks
Located in Sheffield, MA
A Fine Pair of Baroque Giltwood Two Arm Altar Sticks
Category
18th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Berkshires
Pair of Hand Blown White Overlay Trumpet Vases With Snakes
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This beautifully matched pair of 19th c vases are cased in white crystal and cut to clear in an all-over pattern decorating the vases from the petal rims to the raised foot. Completi...
Category
19th Century Antique Berkshires
Materials
Crystal
“Les Bles” by Richard Bellias
Located in Sheffield, MA
Oil on canvas
Signed
47 by 37 in. w/frame 54 by 44 in.
Richard Bellias was born in Paris in 1921 and died in 1974. He studied at the Acadami...
Category
1960s French Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Canvas
Aesthetic Movement Silver Plate Rectangular Planter with Original Liner
Located in Great Barrington, MA
A rare and wonderful example of Aesthetic Movement decoration at it's finest. This silver plated planter sits on a stone or marble base, atop four round silver feet. It is decorated ...
Category
19th Century Antique Berkshires
Materials
Stone, Silver Plate
An Important Pair of a Italian Neoclassical Painted & Parcel Gilt Marquises
Located in Sheffield, MA
An Important Pair of a Italian Neoclassical
Painted & Parcel Gilt Marquises
First Quarter 19th Century
Lombardy, Italy
The back rest with paneled top rail decorated with swans flan...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Berkshires
Materials
Wood
Twelve 19th Century French Hand Painted Cabinet Plates
By Clement Massier
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This set of charming earthenware dessert plates have dramatically shaped rims and beautifully painted architectural subjects. The hand painted polychrome enamels and gold over molded...
Category
20th Century French Berkshires
Pair of Large Barovier Gold Leaf Cornucopia Double Candlesticks
By Barovier Salviai
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This is a fantastic pair of double-armed hand blown crystal candlesticks made by Barovier ca. 1930's. They are filled with gold leaf inclusions, well balanced and very well proportio...
Category
1930s Italian Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Crystal
Stevens & Williams Crystal & Green Biscuit Barrel Sterling Silver Lid & Handle
By Stevens & Williams
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This Art Nouveau handblown crystal biscuit barrel was made by Stevens and Williams with internally decorated apple-green stripes. The top and ri...
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Nouveau Berkshires
Materials
Crystal
Moser Hand Blown Crystal Punchbowl with Enamel and Gold
By Moser Glassworks
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This is an unusual hand blown and cut crystal punch bowl with matching cover and notched opening for the punch ladle. A well proportioned and elegant example with cut panels and hand...
Category
20th Century Czech Berkshires
Materials
Crystal, Gold
Barovier/Barbini Hand Blown Centerpiece Set With Grapes
By Barovier&Toso, Alfredo Barbini
Located in Great Barrington, MA
Hand blown three piece white centerpiece set icased to clear. Each piece is filled with gold leaf and embellished with hand blown figural bunches of grapes. One can only imagine the ...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Crystal
Lady at her Vanity
By Henry Mayo Bateman
Located in Sheffield, MA
Henry Mayo Bateman
English, 1887–1970
Lady at her Vanity
Watercolor on paper
9 ½ by 10 ½ in. W/frame 18 ½ by 19 ½ in.
Signed & dated 1904 lower on left
H. M. Bateman was noted for his "The Man Who..." series of cartoons, featuring comically exaggerated reactions to minor and usually upper-class social gaffes, such as "The Man Who Lit His Cigar Before the Loyal Toast", "The Man Who Threw a Snowball at St. Moritz" and "The Boy Who Breathed on the Glass at the British Museum."
He was born in the small village of Sutton Forest in New South Wales, Australia. His parents were Henry Charles Bateman and Rose Mayo. His father had left England for Australia in 1878 at the age of 21 to seek his fortune, then returned to England briefly in 1885 before going back with an English wife. Soon after Henry was born, his strong-willed mother insisted that they return to London 'and civilisation'. He had one sister, Phyllis, three years younger. Henry remained in England for the remainder of his life except for one disappointing visit to his birthplace.[citation needed]
Henry was always drawing from an early age, consistently producing funny drawings...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Berkshires
Materials
Watercolor
Matched Pair of Crystal Trumpet Vases-Pairpoint
By Pairpoint Silver Company
Located in Great Barrington, MA
A lovely pair of beatifully matched hand blown crystal trumpet vases with all-over copper wheel engraved floral decoration. The detailed images re...
Category
1930s American Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Crystal
Handblown Cranberry Shaded to Pink Flower Shaped Dessert Berry Set of 13 Pieces
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This is one set that you might not see again and it includes the large and practical serving bowl and 12 matching dessert bowls. The hand blown petal shaped bowls are cased in white ...
Category
1930s European Art Nouveau Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Glass
Unusual Hand Blown Crystal Beverage Set W/ Applied Bows
By Whitefriars
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This charming set for 6 includes a pitcher and 6 matching goblets each with an elaborately applied turquoise "ribbon" tied into a "bow". Perfect for a summer afternoon of lemonade o...
Category
Early 20th Century English Berkshires
Materials
Crystal
Rare Pair of Pairpoint Handblown, Wheel Cut Crystal Candlesticks with Black Base
By Pairpoint Glassworks
Located in Great Barrington, MA
There are candlesticks and there is this pair!
Hand blown Pairpoint crystal stems with controlled bubble connectors and a black base. Totally dramatic and to top it off, the bobech...
Category
1940s American Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Crystal
Aux Cafe
Located in Sheffield, MA
Émile Valentin Cardinal
French, 1883–1958
Aux Cafe
Oil on canvas
25 by 21 in. W/frame 34 by 30 in.
Emile exhibited at the Salons in Paris b...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Berkshires
Materials
Oil
Place de la Madeleine
By Frank Will
Located in Sheffield, MA
Frank Will
French 1900-1950
Place de la Madeleine
Watercolor on paper
18 by 21 in. w/frame 25 by 27 in.
Signed lower left
Son of painter Frank Myers Boggs. A Figure from montmatr...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Berkshires
Materials
Watercolor
Courthouse, 1961
By William Walton
Located in Sheffield, MA
William Walton
American, 1909-1994
Courthouse, 1961
Oil on canvas
33 ¼ by 50 in, w/ frame 34 ½ by 51 ⅝ in
Signed lower right, titled verso
William Walton, the journalist turned painter who chaired the Washington Fine Arts Commission from 1961 to 1971, was born in Jacksonville, Illinois. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, he pursued a career in journalism, ultimately working with the Associated Press in Chicago and as Time-Life war correspondent during World War II (when he parachuted into France with the 82nd Airborne...
Category
1960s Abstract Berkshires
Materials
Oil
Still Life with Pink and White Flowers
Located in Sheffield, MA
George H. Williams
Australian, 1877-1964
Still Life with Pink and White Flowers
Oil on canvas
28 by 36 ¼ in, w/ frame 36 by 44 in
Signed lower right
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Berkshires
Materials
Oil
Pharaoh and His Family on a Chariot
Located in Sheffield, MA
Maurice Greenberg
American, 1893-1996
Pharaoh and His Family on a Chariot
Oil on canvas
22 ¾ by 26 ¾ in, w/ frame 29 by 32 ¼ in
Signed lower left
Maurice was born in Milwaukee, whe...
Category
Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Berkshires
Materials
Oil
Port de Peche Mediterranean
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Pradel
French, 1835-1892
Port de Peche Mediterranean
Oil on canvas
23 ¾ by 39 ⅝ in, w/ frame 33 ⅝ by 49 ½ in
Signed lower right
He exhibited in many salons including the Unive...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Berkshires
Materials
Oil
“Pastoral Landscape w/Locomotive & Picnic Goers” by G.Brown
By George Loring Brown
Located in Sheffield, MA
George Loring Brown
American, 1814-1889
“Pastoral Landscape with Locomotive and Picnic Goers”
Circa 1850
Oil on canvas
30 by 48 in. W/frame 34 by 52 in.
The Hudson...
Category
19th Century American Antique Berkshires
Materials
Canvas
Septembre, La Meuse a Dordrecht
By Marie Joseph Léon Clavel
Located in Sheffield, MA
“I Will”, Marie-Joseph-Leon-Clavel
French, 1850-1923
Septembre, La Meuse a Dordrecht
Oil on canvas, Signed
13 ¼ by 19 ½ in. W/frame 23 ¼ by 29 ½ in.
Marie-Joseph-Leon-Clavel took ...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Berkshires
Materials
Oil
Large Oil "Firebrand" by Mario Dubsky, circa 1973
By Mario Dubsky
Located in Sheffield, MA
Mario Dubsky.
American, 1939-1985.
Firebrand.
Oil on canvas.
84 by 84 in.
Dated 1973.
Painter and teacher, born in London. He studied at Slade School of Art, 1956-1961, where his work was heavily influenced by fellow painter Dorothy Mead...
Category
1970s American Vintage Berkshires
An Important Rococo Walnut Center Table Possibly Portuguese
Located in Sheffield, MA
With a shaped top over a foliate carved apron centered by a cabochon cartouche, on carved cabriole legs ending with claw feet.
Category
18th Century and Earlier Portuguese Antique Berkshires
Still Life
By Antonio Guijarro Gutierrez
Located in Sheffield, MA
Antonio Guijarro Gutierrez
Spanish, 1923-2011
Still Life
Oil / Panel
17 ½ by 20 ½ in. W/frame 21 by 24 in.
entitled "Rojo Para Cruzar Ante La Luna"
Spanish painter, 1923, Villa...
Category
1970s Modern Berkshires
Materials
Oil
A Fine Irish Mahogany Marble Top Console Table
Located in Sheffield, MA
A Fine Irish Mahogany Marble Top Console Table
18th Century
With a rectangular marble insert over a finely carved frieze,
all resting on cabriole legs ending in pad feet.
He...
Category
18th Century Irish George II Antique Berkshires
Materials
Mahogany
A Fine Louis XVI Marble & Gilt Bronze Clock by Jean Corrier
By Jean Corrier
Located in Sheffield, MA
A Fine Louis XVI
Marble & Gilt Bronze Clock
18th Century
Signed Corrier A Paris
A large Louis XVI ormolu French clock by Corrier à Paris. The symmetrical case has numer...
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Antique Berkshires
An Italian Walnut & Veneer Credenza
Located in Sheffield, MA
An Italian Walnut & Veneer Credenza
18thcentury & later
The rectangular moulded top above two short panelled drawers with knob handles, and a pair of doors with rosette-car...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Italian Renaissance Antique Berkshires
“A Still Life in the Morning Light” by Robert Brackman
By Robert Brackman
Located in Sheffield, MA
Robert Brackman
American, 1898-1980
“A Still Life in the Morning Light”
Oil on canvas
Signed Brackman lower right
15 1/2 by 19 1/2 in.
w/frame 22 by...
Category
1950s American Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Canvas
Russian Neoclassical Brass Mounted Mahogany Commode
Located in Sheffield, MA
A Russian Neoclassical Brass Mounted Mahogany Commode
Early 19th Century
The rectangular faux marble top with outset square corners, above a conforming case fitted with three long graduated drawers, flanked by fluted stiles headed by roundels and ending in tapering square feet.
Height 31 1/4 in. Width 41 in. Depth 20 1/2 in.
Provenance:
Private Collection, New York
Le Trianon Fine Art & Antiques...
Category
Early 19th Century Russian Neoclassical Antique Berkshires
Materials
Mahogany
Paysage by Sigfredo Chacon
By Sigfredo Chacón 1
Located in Sheffield, MA
Sigfredo Chacon
Venezuelan, 1950.
Paysage.
Acrylic on canvas.
23-3/4 in. by 23-3/4 in.
Sigfredo was born in Caracas in 1950. He studied at the School of Fine and Applied Arts Cristóbal Rojas (1963-1966) and Design Institute Neumann-INCE, Caracas (1966-1970). He continued his training as a designer at the Chelsea School of Art and the London College of Printing, England. In the early seventies he participated in the Young confrontations Venezuelan News, Gallery Current Study Hall Arturo Michelena...
Category
1990s Venezuelan Berkshires
Materials
Acrylic
A Fine Pair of Regency Ebony Caned Footstools
Located in Sheffield, MA
Each with scrolled arms and fluting throughout.
Category
19th Century English Antique Berkshires
Magnificent French Gilt Bronze Chandelier, circa 1890-1900 by Maison Mottheau
By Maison Mottheau et Fils
Located in Sheffield, MA
A Magnificent French
Gilt Bronze Chandelier
Circa 1890-1900
Stamped E. MOTTHEAU PARIS
Maison Mottheau et Fils of Paris.
1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris
The fixture fe...
Category
19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Berkshires
Materials
Ormolu
Still Life in a Vase
Located in Sheffield, MA
Alfred Zwiebel
German, 1914-2005
Still Life in a Vase
Oil / Board
21 ¼ by 29 in. W/frame 30 ¼ by 38 in.
Signed lower right
Alfred Zwiebel was an esta...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Berkshires
Materials
Oil
“Untitled” by Daniel Argimon
By Daniel Argimon
Located in Sheffield, MA
Oil on canvas
Signed on back of canvas
64 by 51in. w/frame 65 by 52in.
Daniel Argimon painted for the French Government from 1965-1966 and for the Inte...
Signed on back of canvas
64 by 51in. w/frame 65 by 52in.
Daniel Argimon painted for the French Government from 1965-1966 and for the Inte...
Category
1960s Spanish Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Canvas
A Fine Early Louis XV Walnut Fauteuil Attributed Pierre Nogaret, 18th Century
By Pierre Nogaret
Located in Sheffield, MA
A Fine Early Louis XV Walnut Fauteuil
18th Century
Attributed Pierre Nogaret Maitre June 1745
Height 41 in Width 26 in Depth 22 in
Cha51
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Louis XV Antique Berkshires
A Rare Pair of Classical Gilt Bronze Diminutive Chandeliers
Located in Sheffield, MA
Each Chandelier has five arms
Category
19th Century American Antique Berkshires
A Rare Portuguese diminuitive Settee, 18th Century
Located in Sheffield, MA
A Rare Portuguese Settee
Mid 18th Century
Height 30 in. Width 43 in. Depth 19 in.
Identical chair in the National Museum of Antiques Art, in Lisbon
Reference: “World Furniture”, ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Portuguese Louis XV Antique Berkshires
Reclining Woman by Eugenie Baizerman
By Eugenie Baizerman
Located in Sheffield, MA
Eugenie Baizerman
American, 1899-1949
Reclining woman
Oil on canvas
16 by 22 in. W/frame 22 by 28 in.
Dated 1927 on reverse
Originally from Poland, Eugenie Baizerman was ...
Category
1920s American Vintage Berkshires
Still Life by Louis Sola
By Louis Sola
Located in Sheffield, MA
Louis Sola
French, 1928-2011
Still life
Oil on canvas
25 by 31 in. with frame 31 by 37 in.
Signed & dated 58 lower right
Louis Sola was born in Genoa in 1929 and studi...
Category
1950s French Vintage Berkshires
A White Marble Bust of a Gentleman by John Warrington Wood
By John Warrington Wood
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Warrington Wood
English, 1839-1886
The gentleman wearing a moustache and sideburns
Signed on verso of truncated shoulders
J.Warrington Wood, Sculpt.Rome 1874
Category
19th Century English Antique Berkshires
Materials
Marble
Fine Louis XVI Mahogany Leather-Top Table Attributed to Canabas
By Joseph Canabas
Located in Sheffield, MA
A Fine Louis XVI Mahogany
Leather Top Table
Attributed to Canabas
Joseph Canabas maitre 1766
Height 28 in. Width 27 in. Depth 17 in.
Tab84
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Berkshires
“Port Vendres” by Henri Verge Sarrat
By Henri Verge Sarrat
Located in Sheffield, MA
Henri Verge Sarrat
French, 1880-1966
“Port Vendres”
Oil on canvas
Signed & dated 1930
24 by 29 in. W/frame 32 by 37 in.
Henri exhibited often in Paris at the Salons ...
Category
1930s French Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Canvas
"Abstract, Untitled" by RICHARD HENNESSY
By Richard Hennessy
Located in Sheffield, MA
RICHARD HENNESSY
AMERICAN, b. 1941
?Abstract, Untitled?
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated 1976 on verso
32 1/2 by 30 in.
Provenance: From the estate of Christopher Scott, acquired from the artist. Note: Christopher Scott was a painter who was best known as curator/gadfly Henry, Geldzahler's partner. This relationship was immortalized in one of David Hockney's best portraits of 1969.
EDUCATION:
EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 1954-59
COLUMBIA COLLEGE, B.A., 1963
INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 1963-66
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
ALBRIGHT KNOX ART GALLERY, BUFFALO, NEW YORK
AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH
BROOKLYN MUSEUM, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
CARNEGIE MUSEUM, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
CENTRO CULTURAL, MUSEO CONTEMPORANEO, MEXICO CITY
COPLAND HOUSE, CORTLANDT MANOR, NEW YORK
DAYTON ART INSTITUTE, DAYTON, OHIO
DOW JONES
HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, SAN ANTONIO
HECKSHER MUSEUM OF ART, HUNTINGTON, NEW YORK
I. T. & T.
ITALIAN RELIEF FUND
J.P.MORGAN CHASE
JACK S. BLANTON MUSEUM,UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK
MOMA/P.S.1, STAIRWELL MURAL
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART, PENNSYLVANIA
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM, PHOENIX, ARIZONA
READER'S DIGEST
SAMUEL P. HARN MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AT GAINESVILLE
SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC, RICE UNIVERSITY, HOUSTON
SHIMIZU CONSTRUCTION, TOKYO
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, NEW YORK
THE COMMODITIES CORPORATION, TRINITY UNIVERSITY, SAN ANTONIO, TX
THE LANNAN FOUNDATION, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
THE WADSWORTH ATHENEUM, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
WESTINGHOUSE CORPORATION
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NEW YORK
AWARDS
2008 THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION
1988 THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION
1987 THE ANN AND ERLO VAN WAVEREN FOUNDATION
1983 INGRAM MERRILL FOUNDATION
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY HUDSON, NY
1991 MARGULIES/TAPLIN GALLERY
BAY HARBOR ISLANDS, FL
1989 BALL STATE UNIVERSITY MUNCIE, IN
1986 NINA FREUDENHEIM GALLERY BUFFALO
1986 JOHN GOOD GALLERY NEW YORK
1985 GETLER/PALL/SAPER GALLERY NEW YORK
1983 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK
1982 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK
1981 IVORY KIMPTON GALLERY SAN FRANCISCO
1980 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK
1978 ROBERT MILLER GALLERY NEW YORK
1976 OLIVER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK
1976 GREY ART GALLERY, NYU NEW YORK
RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION
1976 OLIVIER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK
1970 TIBOR DE NAGY GALLERY NEW YORK
1969 OLIVIER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 VILLE DE REIMS
GLOBAL BOOKS: LES LIVRES D'ARTISTE DE GERVAIS JASSAUD
2006 WEBER FINE ART GREENWICH, CT
MY FRIENDS-THEIR VISION
2006 SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER
STATEN ISLAND, NY ABSTRACT LANDSCAPES
2000 THE HECKSCHER MUSEUM OF ART
HUNTINGTON, NY AARON COPLAND?S AMERICA
1997 ESPACE CULTUREL DE TINQUEUX
FRANCE LA TENTATION DU LIVRE
1992 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW YORK
THE ARTIST, THE WRITER AND THE BOOK DESIGN (ARTISTS'S BOOKS FROM COLLECTIF GÉNÉRATION)
1992 MARGULIES/TAPLIN GALLERY MIAMI GROUP SHOW
1991 NINA FREUDENHEIM GALLERY BUFFALO RICHARD HENNESSY AND JEFFREY WASSERMAN
1991 ANDRE EMMERICH GALLERY NEW YORK
ABSTRACT PAINTING: THE 90'S
1991 FRENCH CULTURAL SERVICES NEW YORK
LIVRES D'ARTISTES OF COLLECTIF GÉNÉRATION
1991 SAMUEL P. HARN MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AT GAINESVILLE GAINESVILLE, FL CONTEMPORARY ART
1990 MARTA CERVERA GALLERY NEW YORK
THE PAINTER AND HIS OCCASION, CURATED BY ALAN JONES...
Category
1970s American Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Canvas
“Gradus ad Parnassum” by Jay Rosenblum
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jay Rosenblum American, 1933-1989
"Gradus ad Parnassum," Oil on canvas 20 x 20 in., with frame 20¾ by 20¾ in.
Signed and dated 1970
Jay Rosenbl...
Category
1970s Vintage Berkshires
“Untitled, New York” by Ronaldo de Juan
By Ronaldo De Juan
Located in Sheffield, MA
Ronaldo de Juan
Argentina, 1930-1989
“Untitled, New York”
Large Acrylic on canvas
72 by 50 in. W/frame 73 by 51 in.
Signed and dated 1971 on reverse
Titled New York on reverse
S...
Category
1970s Argentine Vintage Berkshires
Versailles
Located in Sheffield, MA
Marie-Paule Carpentier
French, 1876-1915
Versailles
Pastel / Paper
12 by 16 in. W/frame 18 by 22 in.
Signed on lower left Marie-Paule Carpentier
Marie-Paule Carpentier painted i...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Berkshires
Materials
Pastel
Brittany
Located in Sheffield, MA
Edward Francis Rook
American, 1870-1960
Brittany
Oil on Canvas
30 by 30 in. W/frame 38 by 38 in.
Signed lower left
Circa, 1898-1900
Rook, born in New York City on September 21, 1870, became one of the most original impressionists at Old Lyme. First he was a student of Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian. Life started out to be rather promising for Rook, around the turn of the century. He exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, both in 1898, when his harbor scene, entitled Pearl Clouds — Moonlight was reproduced in International Studio, in April. In addition, the PAFA presented him with the Temple Gold Medal for Deserted Street, Moonlight, which the Academy purchased. Three years later, Rook was awarded a bronze medal at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, where he exhibited three landscapes. Caffin (1902, p. xxxvi) praised the artist's "translucent quality of color," which suggests a study of color theory. Also in 1901, Rook married Edith Sone. For most of 1902, the Rooks were in Mexico.
Rook came to Old Lyme in October of 1903. The date is significant because Childe Hassam was also there that month. Hassam would more or less re-orient the artists' colony from Tonalism to impressionism. Rook would move there permanently two years later.
He took two medals at the St. Louis Universal Exposition (1904) where his landscapes from the Mexican trip were displayed. More awards followed: a silver medal at the International Fine Arts Exposition in Buenos Aires, 1910, a gold medal at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915, a Corcoran Bronze Medal, and a William A. Clark Award in 1919 for Peonies. By 1924, the artist was made a National Academician. Despite all these awards and recognition, Rook did little in the way of selling his art and reportedly, his prices were too high. His paintings were handled by Macbeth and Grand Central Art Galleries.
Rook was active in Old Lyme's art community. As stated above, he would have met Hassam that October in 1903 but Willard Metcalf had departed at the end of the summer. As several writers have explained (Connecticut and American Impressionism, 1980, p. 123), Hassam "was the catalyst around whom [impressionism] coalesced." Rook's niece, Virginia Rook Garver, who happened to be the grand-niece of Hassam, confirmed that Rook and Hassam knew each other in Europe — before they went to Old Lyme (Fischer, 1987, p. 19).
Rook was one of the relatively young painters to come to Old Lyme, along with Gifford Beal, William Chadwick, and Robert Nisbet, on the wave of impressionism, initiated there by Hassam and Metcalf. Old Lyme became a center of American impressionism, and as Donelson F. Hoopes remarked, "under Hassam, the shoreline of Connecticut became a kind of Giverny of America." Among Ranger's group, palettes started to become lighter, except those of the most determined tonalists. Ranger himself, perhaps admitting defeat, moved to Noank in 1904.
Rook is best known for his views of Bradbury's Mill, which was soon called Rook's Mill, owing to the painter's many versions of the scene. One, called Swirling Waters, dated ca. 1917, is in the Lyme Historical Society. Even more famous is Rook's Laurel, dated between 1905 and 1910 (Florence Griswold Museum), in which a profuse laurel bush (the state flower), is set off by a spectacular Constable-like background. But Swirling Waters could never be confused with Constable, with its violent brushwork, impasto-layered water, and bright, almost chalky, plein-air palette. Gerdts (1984, p. 226) compares the paintings of Walter...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Berkshires
Materials
Oil
"The Summer Of Our Content" By Richard Hennessy
By Richard Hennessy
Located in Sheffield, MA
RICHARD HENNESSY
AMERICAN, b. 1941
"THE SUMMER OF OUR CONTENT"
"Large" Oil on canvas
Signed and dated 1980 on verso
60 by 72 ½ in.
Provenance: From the estate of Christopher Scott, acquired from the artist. Note: Christopher Scott was a painter who was best known as curator/gadfly Henry, Geldzahler's partner. This relationship was immortalized in one of David Hockney's best portraits of 1969.
EDUCATION: EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 1954-59
COLUMBIA COLLEGE, B.A., 1963
INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 1963-66
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
ALBRIGHT KNOX ART GALLERY, BUFFALO, NEW YORK
AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH
BROOKLYN MUSEUM, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
CARNEGIE MUSEUM, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
CENTRO CULTURAL, MUSEO CONTEMPORANEO, MEXICO CITY
COPLAND HOUSE, CORTLANDT MANOR, NEW YORK
DAYTON ART INSTITUTE, DAYTON, OHIO
DOW JONES
HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, SAN ANTONIO
HECKSHER MUSEUM OF ART, HUNTINGTON, NEW YORK
I. T. & T.
ITALIAN RELIEF FUND
J.P.MORGAN CHASE
JACK S. BLANTON MUSEUM,UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK
MOMA/P.S.1, STAIRWELL MURAL
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART, PENNSYLVANIA
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM, PHOENIX, ARIZONA
READER'S DIGEST
SAMUEL P. HARN MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AT GAINESVILLE
SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC, RICE UNIVERSITY, HOUSTON
SHIMIZU CONSTRUCTION, TOKYO
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, NEW YORK
THE COMMODITIES CORPORATION, TRINITY UNIVERSITY, SAN ANTONIO, TX
THE LANNAN FOUNDATION, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
THE WADSWORTH ATHENEUM, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
WESTINGHOUSE CORPORATION
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NEW YORK
AWARDS
2008 THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION
1988 THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION
1987 THE ANN AND ERLO VAN WAVEREN FOUNDATION
1983 INGRAM MERRILL FOUNDATION
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY HUDSON, NY
1991 MARGULIES/TAPLIN GALLERY BAY HARBOR ISLANDS, FL
1989 BALL STATE UNIVERSITY MUNCIE, IN
1986 NINA FREUDENHEIM GALLERY BUFFALO
1986 JOHN GOOD GALLERY NEW YORK
1985 GETLER/PALL/SAPER GALLERY NEW YORK
1983 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK
1982 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK
1981 IVORY KIMPTON GALLERY SAN FRANCISCO
1980 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK
1978 ROBERT MILLER GALLERY NEW YORK
1976 OLIVER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK
1976 GREY ART GALLERY, NYU NEW YORK RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION
1976 OLIVIER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK
1970 TIBOR DE NAGY GALLERY NEW YORK
1969 OLIVIER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 VILLE DE REIMS GLOBAL BOOKS: LES LIVRES D'ARTISTE DE GERVAIS JASSAUD
2006 WEBER FINE ART GREENWICH, CT MY FRIENDS-THEIR VISION
2006 SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER STATEN ISLAND, NY ABSTRACT LANDSCAPES
2000 THE HECKSCHER MUSEUM OF ART HUNTINGTON, NY AARON COPLAND’S AMERICA
1997 ESPACE CULTUREL DE TINQUEUX FRANCE LA TENTATION DU LIVRE
1992 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW YORK THE ARTIST, THE WRITER AND THE BOOK DESIGN (ARTISTS'S BOOKS FROM COLLECTIF GÉNÉRATION)
1992 MARGULIES/TAPLIN GALLERY MIAMI GROUP SHOW
1991 NINA FREUDENHEIM GALLERY BUFFALO RICHARD HENNESSY AND JEFFREY WASSERMAN
1991 ANDRE EMMERICH GALLERY NEW YORK ABSTRACT PAINTING: THE 90'S
1991 FRENCH CULTURAL SERVICES NEW YORK LIVRES D'ARTISTES OF COLLECTIF GÉNÉRATION
1991 SAMUEL P. HARN MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AT GAINESVILLE GAINESVILLE, FL CONTEMPORARY ART
1990 MARTA CERVERA GALLERY NEW YORK THE PAINTER AND HIS OCCASION, CURATED BY ALAN JONES...
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