Lot 102
Gregory Gillespie(American, 1936-2000)Red Mountain, 1997
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Gregory Gillespie (American, 1936-2000)
Red Mountain, 1997
initialed and inscribed 'GG 105' (on the reverse); titled and dated on label from Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA (affixed to the reverse)
oil on board
41.9 x 30.5 cm (16 1/2 x 12 in).
framed 43.8 x 32.4 x 2.5 cm (17 1/4 x 12 3/4 x 1 in).
initialed and inscribed 'GG 105' (on the reverse); titled and dated on label from Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA (affixed to the reverse)
oil on board
41.9 x 30.5 cm (16 1/2 x 12 in).
framed 43.8 x 32.4 x 2.5 cm (17 1/4 x 12 3/4 x 1 in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA.
A private Massachusetts collection (acquired from the previous, April 2003).
N.b.
Gregory Gillespie grew up in a Catholic family in New Jersey, before receiving his BFA in artistic education at Copper Union, New York. He went on to complete his MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1962 after which he was awarded the Chester Dale Fellowship to continue his studies at the American Academy in Rome until 1970. Gillespie was an ardent admirer of the Dutch and Italian masters, and this time in Rome served as crucial inspiration for his later work. He returned to the US in 1971 and settled in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he began working with the group of artists known today as the Valley Realists which included artists Scott Prior, Jane Lund, Robin Freedenfeld, and Randall Deihl. In its beginning stages, Gillespie and his brother Frances Cohen Gillespie were considered the leading members of the group, but soon other members began to carve out their own niches. Gillespie's own oeuvre was consistently rooted in realism but always defied stylistic boundaries, incorporating surreal, allegorical, and even abstract forms.
Gillespie's works are today held in corporate, private, and institutional collections across the country , notably in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond.