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From the Land down to the Sea:
The Cape Ann School
This exhibit and sale features 20 well-known Cape Ann artists and over 120 carefully selected seascapes and landscapes. Cape Ann, the oldest art colony in the US, has inspired art and artists with a startling diversity of styles. The roster of painters who have worked on Cape Ann is a virtual who's who of American art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Fitz Hugh Lane, Winslow Homer, John Twachtman, Childe Hassam, Edward Hopper, Jonas Lie, Emile and Charles Gruppe, Frederick Mulhaupt, Anthony Thieme, William Lester Stevens, Aldro Hibbard, Hayley Lever, Frederick Waugh, Tom and T.M. Nicholas and a thousand others, all painted in this picturesque little fishing community north of Boston.
From its establishment in 1623, Gloucester was a major harbor, known around the globe for its importance in fishing and international trade. In addition, the surrounding towns of Rockport, Annisquam and Lanesville have all become important elements in the story of the colony. Rudyard Kipling is said to have found his inspiration for Captain's Courageous while on Cape Ann.
A frequent trend among many painters of the first half of the twentieth century was a lightening of the palette after exposure to Cape Ann. William Lester Stevens is the first native son to achieve a national reputation. Born in Rockport, Stevens was the consummate plein air painter, possessing both the hearty toughness of the quarry workmen with the imperviousness to weather of the Gloucester seaman. Cape Ann's popularity to "the artist" did not wane or die with the popularity of one particular style, or even one particular evolution of modern art. Instead it was continuously redefined as painters redefined their art.
Source: Artists of Cape Ann: A 150 Year Tradition by Kristian Davies, Rockport, Mass. Twin Lights Publishers 2001
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William Lester Stevens (American, 1888-1969)
Gloucester Evening
Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 in.
$6500
William Lester Stevens (American, 1888-1969)
Autumn Haystacks
14 x 16 Oil on artist's board
Period carved gilt frame 17-1/4" x 19-1/2"
Provenance: the John F. Gale Collection, Cambridge, MA
$7500
Born in Rockport, Massachusetts, Stevens spent four years at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts School, where he studied under Edmund Tarbell, among others. Primarily an oil painter, he also used watercolor and acrylics. He is best known for his post-impressionistic landscapes. Throughout the course of his long career, Stevens taught, first in Rockport, then at Boston University (1925-1926) and Princeton (1927-1929), and during the Depression at Grand Manan.
He was a National Academician and a member of the American Watercolor Society; a founding member of the Rockport Art Association; Springfield, MA Art League; Guild of Boston Artists; Gallery on Moors; New Haven Paint and Clay Club, CT; Gloucester Society of Art; North Shore Art Association; Boston Watercolor Club and the New York Watercolor Club. He won art awards at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC; American Watercolor Society; New Haven Paint and Clay Club; Springfield Art League; Salons of America; Washington Watercolor Club; North Shore AA; Rockport AA and more. He painted USPO murals in Dedham and Rockport, MA, the Boston City Hall, the Louisville, KY Art Museum and several schools in Boston. References: Movalli, Charles, American Artist (April 1986); Who’s Who in American Art (1947); Who Was Who in American Art (vol. 3, p. 3171-72).
William Lester Stevens, NA, 1888-1969
BARNYARD WITH WAGON
12 x 14 Oil on board
modern gilt wood frame 17 x 19
Provenance: the John F. Gale Collection, Cambridge, MA
$6500
Exhibition History: Rockport Art Association, W. Lester Stevens, N.A. Retrospective, September 27- November 9, 2003 illustrated on page 57 of Stevens' book written by Judith A. Curtis
William Lester Stevens (American, 1888-1969)
Winter in the Berkshires
Signed "W. LESTER STEVENS N.A." l.r.
Watercolor 16 x 22, Framed 25 x 31
$2950
ALDRO THOMPSON HIBBARD (American, 1886-1969)
LATE AFTERNOON VERMONT
9 x 12 Oil on artist's board
12x 15 Guido 22/23 karat gold leafed frame
PROVENANCE: The John F. Gale Collection, Cambridge, MA
$9000
Born in Falmouth, MA in 1886, Aldro Thompson Hibbard received his early art training at the Boston Museum School where he studied with Edmund Tarbell, Frank W. Benson and Joseph DeCamp. Due to his exceptional talents, Hibbard received a Paige Traveling Scholarship (1913-15) to study abroad. Hibbard later founded the Rockport Art Association Summer School of Drawing and Painting (1921-28), also known as the Hibbard School of Painting. The Rockport Art Association recently held a special retrospective exhibition for him.
Beginning in the 1920s, Hibbard resided in the Cape Ann, Massachusetts area and spent his winters in Vermont and Jamaica. Vermont was the locale of many impressionistic winter landscapes for which Hibbard is best known. In fact, he was so adept at painting snow scenes, a review in the Boston Globe for the 1918 Guild of Boston Artists exhibition noted: “Hibbard is a realist; you feel the reality of everything he paints, but the sentiment, the poetry is there also. Others paint snow that looks like white paint streaked with blue and yellow. Hibbard paints snow that never looks like anything else but snow...he is...more subtle and more penetrating in his observation of delicate nuances of gray, [and] the phenomenon of light on snow.”(1)
Source: Cooley, John L. A.T. Hibbard, N.A.: Artist in Two Worlds. Concord: The Rumford Press, 1968; p. 55.
Vladimir Pavlosky (1884 - 1944)
Maine Harbor
Oil on Canvas 22 x 27
$4500
Vladimir Pavlovsky was born in the Ukraine, Russia into a long line of Russian painters, guilders, and carvers. At the age of twenty, Vladimir moved to the United States to avoid conscription in the Tsar’s Army. Once in the United States, Vladimir settled in Boston, where he quickly became active in the art community. From the 1920's on until his death in 1944, he exhibited his works widely in Boston art galleries and museum shows. Pavlovsky specialized in shore scenes depicting the life of Gloucester fisherman and the coast of Maine. His painting "The White Peacock" was awarded second prize at an exhibition of the works of Boston artists at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston -- the first prize of this exhibition was granted to John Singer Sargent.
Pavlosky's expressed his personal philosophy of art in this quote: “An artist should be a good, honest man, true to his work, true to nature. Art is the expression of the soul; to paint well one must live well. The moment an artist begins to think whether his work will sell, he does less commendable work, he is less of an artist.”
MEMBERSHIPS
Boston Watercolor Society, Copley Society, Boston Guild of Artists, Gloucester Artists Association, Gloucester Society of Artists, Rockport Artists Association, North Shore Artists Association
Paul Strisik N.A. (1918-1998)
Maine Coast
Oil on Canvas 16 x 24
Framed 22 x 30, Condition: excellent
$8000
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Paul Strisik became a resident of Rockport, Massachusetts, where he did landscape painting that brought him national recognition. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he studied at the Art Students League in New York City and with Frank Vincent DuMond. In 1953, he moved to Rockport, where he was active in the Art Association and other local civic organizations.
He was a member of the National Academy of Western Art, the American Watercolor Society, and the Oil Painters of America. During his long career, he won 185 awards including 16 gold medals. He and his wife, Nancy, also maintained a home in Santa Fe for 12 years, and in 1996, he was honored as Artist of the Year by the Santa Fe Rotary Club. He was widely respected for his willingness to share his talents with young artists, and taught numerous workshops including at the Scottsdale Artists' School. He wrote several books, his last one being "Capturing the Light in Oils." A reviewer in "Art Talk" quoted him: "God's light on a blade of grass is such a miracle, and so difficult to capture in paint; it is worth a lifetime of trying" (10/98). He died July 22, 1998 at his home in Rockport.
Paul Strisik N.A. (1918-1998)
Sparkling Harbor, Maine
Oil on Canvas 10 x 14
Framed 16 x 20, Condition: excellent
$5000
WARD MANN (1921-2005)
HAULING IN OIL ON MASONITE (1979)
24 X30”, COND. VERY GOOD, SIGNED LR.
$5000
Ward Mann was born in Detroit on October 3, 1921, Ward Mann was introduced to drawing and painting at the Detroit Institute of Art. Encouraged by his parents and teachers, at age twelve his work was accepted in an open exhibition of the Scarab Club in Detroit.
During WWII, he volunteered and served as a commissioned officer in the US Army Air Corps. After service, he earned his engineering degree from the University of Michigan, College of Engineering. He then had a productive career as an engineer while raising three sons.
His childhood interest in art lingered. In 1963, after relocating to Webster, New York, he made a career change. A self-taught artist, he began achieving recognition in major exhibitions and by various art organizations. In 1974, he joined the historic Rocky Neck Art Colony and opened the Ward Mann Gallery on the Pier in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Renowned for his marine paintings, he traveled and painted extensively in Europe, Greece, Norway, South America, and throughout the United States. He died on Thursday, October 13, 2005, in Webster, New York.
Emile Albert Gruppe (1896-1978)
Rainy Day, Vermont
Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in
Price available upon request
Born in 1896 the son of renowned tonalist painter Charles Paul Gruppe, Emile Gruppe became one of the 20th century’s masters of New England seascapes and landscapes. In addition to being raised by an artistic father, he was also educated in art at The Hague in the Netherlands and in New York City at the National Academy of Design and The Arts Students League. He also received instruction from artists George Bridgeman, Charles Chapman, Richard Miller and John F. Carlson. Throughout his career Gruppé exhibited at the major national annuals, including those of the National Academy of Design, where he made his debut in 1915. His paintings were also shown at the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, the North Shore Art Association, the Rockport Art Association, where they won numerous awards and prizes. In 1942, he founded the Gruppe Summer School in Gloucester with his mentors.
Gruppe painted numerous works throughout his long artistic career, as many as 200 hundred oils a year. He is best known for his impressionistic landscapes of Vermont, painted figures and portraits, and especially for his Gloucester and Rockport harbor and village scenes. For the majority of his professional career, he worked and lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts, often wintering in Vermont and Florida. During this time, Gruppé adopted a more direct and personal mode of painting in which he combined a dynamic brand of Realism with the light and atmospheric concerns of Impressionism. This later work is sought after for its distinctive, vigorous brushwork, compositional qualities and refined color values. Gruppe lived a long and prolific life, passionate about his art and about sharing the joys and skills of visual creativity with future generations. In one of his last interviews he revealed his philosophy of painting: "If you want exacting details in a painting, than you might as well look at a photograph. I make an impression on a canvas, and let one's imagination fill in the details." He died in 1978 at the age of 82 after a lifetime of painting.
Gruppe's works can be found in the Richmond Art Museum, the Hickory Museum of Art, Springville Museum of Art, Whistler House Museum of Art, and more. His works are now highly collectible and have brought dramatic prices up to $60,000 at auction.
Source: AskArt.com
Earle A. Titus (1895-1962)
The Plum Covered Barn - Jeffersonville, VT
Oil on board, 24 x 32
$3800
Bernard Corey (1914-2000)
Maine Surf
signed Bernard Corey, l.l.,
oil on board 12x16
Framed in Silver 18 x 22
$3400
Bernard Corey is one of New England's most beloved landscape painters of the 20th century. He executed paintings surely en plein aire with accuracy and competence. Memberships included the Rockport Art Association, Salmagundi Club, the Guild of Boston Artists, North Shore Art Association and more. Having won over 100 awards and honors, including awards at the North Shore Art Association, Rockport Art Association, Salmagundi Club, NYC, Hudson Valley Art Association, Providence Water Color Club, Allied Artists of America and many more. He painted almost every day of his life with fellow artists in the fields, along the streams and beaches and in the mountains in and around New England. Although the artist traveled throughout the world, Paris made little impression on him. He was American through-and-through.
Bernard Corey was the "last of the old school" of traditional New England landscape painters. When he died early in 2000, the era when artists painted for ten hours a day, every day with competency came to an end. Corey's carefully painted impressionistic plein aire canvases captured the essence of nature in all four seasons. The Rockport Art Association gave Corey a retrospective exhibition (October-November 2000) saluting the artist's profound understanding of nature and painting.
Bernard Corey (1916-2000)
Winter Stream
oil on canvas 10 x 14
Framed Goldleaf 15 x 19
$2400
Bernard Corey (1916-2000)
Deep Snow
oil on board 9 x 12, signed Bernard Corey, l.r.
Framed Goldleaf 14x17
$3400
Contemporary Cape Ann Artists
THOMAS ANDREW NICHOLAS, NA
Sunlit Falls
30 x 36 Oil on Linen
$14,000 Framed (38 x 44)
Born Middletown, Connecticut, in 1934, Tom Nicholas has been at the forefront of American landscape painting for almost a half century. He has earned an esteemed position as one of the country’s most widely recognized landscape painters. After formal studies as a scholarship student at the School for Visual Arts, NYC, from 1953-56, he was awarded a Greenshield Grant for two years of independent painting abroad and in the USA. His paintings are noted for their elegant composition, fine detail and romantic sensibility.
Nicholas is an Academician of the National Academy of Design and a Dolphin Fellow of the American Watercolor Society. One of the youngest members ever elected to the National Academy, he has been honored with nearly 300 awards and medals and has created 40 one-man shows throughout the country. Since 1960, he has painted throughout Europe and the United States. His work is in many private and public collections including the Farnsworth Museum, Maine; the Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio; Springfield Art Museum, Missouri; Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts and the Hispanic Society of America, New York City. He has 23 images in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC.
Tom Nicholas is the father of T.M. Nicholas, widely considered to be one of the most prominent painters of his generation.
Donald Mosher grew up on the North Shore and has lived in Rockport since 1980. A descendant of ship builders from Nova Scotia and farmers from Maine, Don is naturally drawn to the power of the sea and the tranquility of the New England countryside.
His interest in art began after winning his first award at the age of eight, and he has since won over 200 awards for his work. A 1968 graduate of Vesper George School of Art, where he met his wife Christine, Don has been a painting instructor and demonstrator and has been featured in several national publications including Yankee and American Artist Magazine. His paintings hang in the permanent collections of large corporations, institutions, banks, and private homes throughout the United States and abroad including the Peabody Museum, Portland Art museum, and the State House in Boston.
Donald Allen Mosher
Entering Port Clyde
Oil on Canvas 12 x 12
$2850
Donald Allen Mosher
Entering Port Clyde
Oil on Canvas 12 x 12
$2850
Kenneth Knowles
Kenneth J. Knowles is a well established talent, known widely throughout New England for his work in landscape impressionism. On a normal day, Knowles spends four to eight hours outside working on the beginning stages of one or two paintings. At any given time, he has as many as 15 projects in progress. He then brings the paintings into his studio for what can be days or months worth of 'finish' before he feels they are complete. "There are several ways to finish a painting, from just a few touches to weeks of adding texture and depth."
Ken was 17 years old when he sought out artists to teach him including well-known Rockport artists T.M. Nicholas and Stapleton Kearns. Later he studied also under John Terelak. He is a member of the Rockport Art Association. His awards include the Silver Brush Award from the American Art Association, the Edward and Elizabeth Schlemm Memorial Award for exceptional landscape in oil, and the Freda Gallery Award. Born in 1968, he is one of the strongest young American landscape painters.
Ken Knowles
Fishing Boats, Cripple Cove
12 x 16 Oil on Board
$1950
Ken Knowles
Last Light, Plum Cove
24 x 30 Oil on Linen
$5800
Ken Knowles
Cornish Hills in Winter
20 x 24 Oil on Linen
$2950
Stefan Alexis Pastuhov
Descended from Russian grandparents who fled to America in 1917, Stefan Pastuhov was instantly inspired by his surroundings when he moved to Maine in 1984. In those early years he and Stapleton Kearns painted together almost daily and Pastuhov loved the challenge of painting the changing weather and light, coming and going of the tide, the beautiful red of the blueberry barrens, pristine winter landscapes, and the intemperate seas and rocky coast. He has been especially influenced by painters in the Cape Ann plein air tradition Aldro Hibbard, Emile Gruppe, Paul Strisik, and often paints Maine landscapes with Cape Ann artists like Donald Mosher.
“The fact that I paint outside on location makes each day new. Be it overcast or sunny, snowy or green, ablaze with fall colors or barren of leaves, every location I paint is constantly in change. With this continual flux I am able to paint a number of paintings in each spot, every work attaining an individuality all its own. The intellectual challenge of designing each piece and then undertaking its construction is very meaningful to me as an artist. Capturing the sparkling light of late afternoon or the reflections in a rushing stream will always excite my senses. Although most of my work is done in Maine you will rarely see me anywhere without my paints. Any day that goes by without dipping my brush in paint is a disappointment if not a total loss.”
Stefan Alexis Pastuhov
The Yellow Pair
12 x 16 Oil on Board
$1150
Stefan Alexis Pastuhov
Fading Light
12 x 16 Oil on Board
$1150
Don Stone, N.A.
Don Stone began studying art at Gloucester High School and continued at Vesper George School of Art, Boston, to which he later returned as an instructor. He also studied privately with Paul Strisik, N.A., whom he credits with introducing him to the life of a plein-air painter. It was during his youth in Gloucester that Stone became deeply involved with local fishermen. Now, from his studio on Monhegan Island, Maine, he has the opportunity to portray this involvement to its fullest.
Few artists have so successfully mastered so many different paint mediums, and, with each new exploration, presented a fresh means of expression. Working with vigorous, moving watercolor, he captures momentary visual sensations, and an immediacy that is translated into works of stunning accuracy and vitality in the precision of his oils and watercolors. Known for the luminosity in his paintings, Don believes it is not the subject which is important, as much as it is the effect of the light under which it is painted.
Another uniting factor in these skilled and versatile paintings is the distinctly American point of view. Don Stone's deeply rooted respect for the American Tradition of Realism is expressed in his choice of subject from the well-known marine paintings to the rural New England landscapes, both occasionally peopled with characters that embody the very pulse of the American heritage.
Don Stone has been elected to full membership in the National Academy of Design, the American Watercolor Society, as well as the Allied Artists of America, the Hudson Valley Art Asociation, the Guild of Boston Artists, the Copley Society of Boston, the Rockport Art Association, the North Shore Art Association.
Don Stone, N.A.
The Blue Gate
Watercolor 7 x 11, Frame Size: 13 x 17
$1600
Caleb Stone grew up in the art colony of Rockport MA. and was exposed to plein air painting by his father Don Stone N.A. at a early age. His attraction to the French and American impressionists and choice of art as a career grew from and was nurtured by this environment. He currently resides on Cape Ann in Massachusetts.
Caleb studied at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in Old Lyme CT. Since then has been regularly teaching workshops classes , traveling and painting. He works in both watercolors and oils. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the John Stobart Fellowship Award , The New England Heritage Award , The Wood Award for Excellence in Watercolor, The Land and Light Gold Medal , Best in Show Manchester by the Sea and most recently achieved Elected Artist at the Lyme Art Association.
Winter Morning, Monhegan
Caleb Stone
24 x 30 Oil on Canvas
$7000 Framed
The Headlands, Monhegan
Caleb Stone
16 x 20 Oil on Canvas
$2400 Framed
Dennis Poirier
Dennis Poirier grew up in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He began his formal studies at Butera School of Art in Boston, then returned to Cape Ann to study with John C. Terelak and Ted Goerschner at the newly formed Gloucester Academy of Fine Arts. Later he moved to New York City to study at the Arts Student League winning the Charles J. Romans Memorial Award at his very first national exhibit at the Allied Artists of America Show.
Dennis is a member of many prestigious art associations including the Oil Painters of America, North Shore Arts Association,Rockport Art Association, the Copley Society of Art (a Copley Artist), the Hudson Valley Arts Association, and the Academic Artists Association.
View of Annisquam Light
Dennis Poirier
18 x 24 Oil on Canvas
$2650 Framed
Gloucester Dories
Dennis Poirier
20 x 24 Oil on Canvas
$3200
Hazy Morning Fishing
Dennis Poirier
24 x 30 Oil on Canvas
$4500
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BERNARD GERSTNER is a painter noted for crisp color and design in his work. He is a painter, teacher and demonstrator. His subject matter surrounds him on beautiful Cape Ann though his subjects are not confined to this area. His painting trips and workshops have his work extolling the beauty of all New England as well as New York state.
Gerstner holds memberships to Rockport Art Association, Boston Watercolor Society, Academic Artists, North Shore Arts Association, Rochester Art Club, International Marine Painters Association and New England Watercolor Society. Recent awards include the Gold Medal at North Shore, and the Eleanor M. Callow Award at Rockport.
BERNARD GERSTNER
Snow in the Mountains
Watercolor 10 x 14 in.
Framed 18 x 22
$750
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