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Theodore Wendel(1859-1932)A Church in Ipswich in Wintertime
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Jewel Bernier
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Theodore Wendel (1859-1932)
unsigned
oil on board
14 x 9 1/2 in. (35.6 x 24.1 cm)
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Provenance
The artist.
A private collection (gifted from the family of the artist, 1943).
By descent in the family of the previous.
N.B.
Theodore Wendel was born in Midway, Ohio. He studied at the Royal Academy in Munich and, after graduating, traveled to Paris and Venice with his mentor, Frank Duveneck. His work of this period adopts the muted palette and thick brushwork of the Munich School painters, of whom Duveneck was a leading member. In 1886, Wendel began to spend time in the art colony in Giverny, France, where he started incorporating the bright, pastel hues of Monet and the French Impressionists. Monet himself became a great admirer of Wendel's work.
In 1888 Wendel returned to Boston and continued painting bright, impressionistic scenes, but now primarily of the New England rather than French landscape. He taught for a time at Wellesley College and then at the Cowles Art School in Boston before settling in Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he lived for the rest of his life. The streets, landscapes, and architecture of Ipswich became his favorite subjects. The present work depicts, with vigorous brushstrokes and a subdued palette that display a blend of Wendel's early and later works, a quiet, sun-soaked street in wintertime. Wendel effectively evokes the long shadows of winter and the sparse, bare tree branches; the freedom and spontaneity of the brushwork suggests that perhaps this work was done en plein air.
Wendel's work is now held in numerous large collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Cincinnati Art Museum.
























