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August(us) Young (1837-1913).Still Life,Pear and Grapes browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art:Paintings:Oil:N. America:American: Pre 1900: item # 796374 Please refer to our stock # 2466 when inquiring.
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| Oil on board, 6 x 9.25 inches (12.25 x 15.5 inches framed), signed and dated "Aug. Young 1899", lower right. Authorities differ on whether Young was German-born or a native-born New Yorker of German parentage. In any event, he was engaged in art studies at an early age with Junius Brutus Stearns, Theodore Kaufman and at the National Academy. Subsequently, he studied for two years in Munich and Paris. He was well-established in Brooklyn by 1860, his home until his death in 1913. This intimate study, rich in its simplicity, of one luscious pear and a small garnish of perfect grapes, is pleasing in every aspect - an antidote to the effusive and overworked. It recalls the small-scale works of John Francis and George Henry Hall and echoes the spareness of Jasper Cropsey's "Green Apple" (oil on canvas, 7.75 x 11.25 inches) of 1865 (see Pl. XIII, "American Still-Life Painting", William H. Gerdts and Russell Burke, Praeger, 1971). A copy of the Gerdts book will accompany the painting. | ||
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