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Landscape with Clouds at Dusk: Arthur B Carles browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1920: item # 921203 Please refer to our stock # 2342 when inquiring.
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| Arthur Beecher Carles Jr, Philadelphia, PA, 1876-1952. This luminous landscape with clouds at sunset is an oil on canvas signed lower left ABC 14. It is 20" W by 16"H in a period style frame and is in excellent condition. He spent most of his life in Philadelphia where he studied, taught and exhibited at the Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts. At the Pennsylvania Academy, he was early influenced by the bravura technique of William Merritt Chase as well as by early works of Edouard Manet. At the same time, he also painted in a precise realist manner. In 1907, he went to Paris to study and developed an interest in Post- Impressionism and Fauvism and fell under the influence of his friend, Henri Matisse. He also associated with Paul Gaughin, Hans Hofmann, Gertrude and Leo Stein, Alfred Maurer, and the American John Marin. In New York, he participated in Alfred Stieglitz 1910 avant-garde show "Younger American Painters," which made the distinction between the popular American Scene painters and those including Carles who were painting abstraction. In 1913, his work was part of the New York Armory Show, another exhibition that included modernist painting and sculpture of Europeans and Americans and shocked many Americans. During the 1920s and 1930s, he did little exhibiting but his work became increasingly abstract, and between 1937 and 1941, he created works whose heavily brushed surfaces and violent-appearing rhythms anticipated the Abstract Expressionism that became pervasive in America in the 1950s. Carles was so alone in the critical eye because he was so far ahead. He slowly digested his European lessons, then moved on to a symphonic orchestration of colors all his own. His work is in many museums including the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitain Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum and the Hirshhorn as well as the Philadelphia Museum and the Santa Barbara Museum. | ||
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