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Alson Skinner Clark(1876-1949)Shore by the St. Lawrence 35 x 46in framed 44 x 55in
3 August 2021, 13:00 PDT
Los AngelesUS$100,000 - US$150,000
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Alson Skinner Clark (1876-1949)
Shore by the St. Lawrence
signed and dated 'Alson Clark - 16' (lower right)
oil on board
35 x 46in
framed 44 x 55in
Painted in 1916.
signed and dated 'Alson Clark - 16' (lower right)
oil on board
35 x 46in
framed 44 x 55in
Painted in 1916.
Footnotes
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
Petersen Galleries, Beverly Hills, California (as 'October Bouquet').
with George Stern Fine Art, West Hollywood, California (as 'October Bouquet').
Sale, Heritage Auctions, Beverly Hills, California Art Signature Auction, March 20, 2012, lot 87023.
Private collection, Southern California.
Literature
J. Stern, Alson S. Clark, Beverly Hills, Petersen Galleries, 1983, p. 79, no. 33, illustrated.
Alson Clark remained steeped in the Impressionist tradition throughout his life. He appears to have been painfully aware of the ever-increasing mark that Modernism was leaving on the Western world's artistic landscape, but he remained an Impressionist at heart. What separated Clark from many of the painters of the day was his extensive training at the top art academies in New York, Chicago and Paris. James McNeill Whistler and William Merritt Chase were two artists that Clark was particularly enamored with. Additionally, he travelled extensively in his search for fresh and unique subject matter. Although he called California home in the latter years of his life, Clark painted extensively in New England, New York, South Carolina, Illinois, Canada, England, France, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Panama, Mexico and Croatia (formerly Dalmatia).
Considered by many to be one of Alson Clark's most iconic paintings, Shore by the St. Lawrence represents the artist at the pinnacle of his Impressionist talents. The palette is similar to another of Clark's best known paintings, Thousand Islands, New York, painted in 1911. Clark and his beloved wife Medora spent the Summer of 1916 relaxing in St. Lawrence, New York, having recently completed enough paintings to fill an entire exhibition room for the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. The fresh air and rural surroundings were said to have invigorated the artist, and he set about producing several fine works in a bold palette of Fall-like colors. The top result of these efforts can be seen in Shore by the St. Lawrence. Here dabs of orange and yellow frame the scene with dizzying brilliance. The trees are alive with vivid color. They are full of movement as the cattle below graze aimlessly, unaware of the beauty around them. This is truly Impressionism at its finest. A fitting statement from one of our finest California plein-air painters.
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