Forsythia by Fine Artists Gallery

Forsythia by Fine Artists Gallery

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Forsythia and Pear in Bloom
Fairfield Porter (1907-1975), American
Oil on canvas, 29" x 38" (w x h), 1968
Smithsonian American Art Museum

The building visible beyond the foliage is Porter's home in Southampton, New York, which was the setting for many of his paintings.

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Forsythia, April
Lois Dodd (1927- ), American
Oil on Masonite, 13" x 10" (w x h), 2007
Alexandre Gallery, New York

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Forsythia
Alex Katz (1927- ), American
Oil on canvas, 48" x 78" (w x h), 1997
Christie's 2004 auction sold: $89,625 USD

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Spring Interior
Charles Sheeler (1883-1965), American
Oil on canvas, 25" x 30" (w x h), 1927
Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Boston MFA Notes:
"Sheeler settled with his wife, Katharine, in the rural community of South Salem, New York in 1926, furnishing his new home, a bungalow-like building, with early American antiques that he'd been collecting since the mid-1910s. Shortly thereafter, he began work on three large still life compositions, one in tempera and two in oil, all of which develop an innovative formula of still lifes situated within a domestic setting, a theme he had introduced in his painting Interior (1926, Whitney Museum of American Art). The mood of these pictures is cheerful; one can imagine they reflect Sheeler's feelings of optimism and well-being. The arrangement of forms seems conventional and the objects depicted are familiar and ordinary: forsythia, and Sheeler's often-used candle stand and a glass mug. The architectural features in the background are undoubtedly those of Sheeler's house in South Salem.

Spring Interior was first shown at an exhibition in Charlestown, New Hampshire, in late August 1927. Juliana Force, the energetic manager of New York's Whitney Studio Club, had rented Maxstoke, a huge house in Charlestown, as a summer residence for the members of the Club. Sheeler spent several weeks there, as did Edward Hopper and others. The culmination of the summer's activities was a group exhibition in the drawing rooms of Maxstoke. There Spring Interior attracted the attention of Juliana Force, who subsequently acquired it for the newly established Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1954 the Whitney exchanged it, and several other works, with the Downtown Gallery for Architectural Cadences. William H. Lane bought Spring Interior from the Downtown Gallery in 1954 for his foundation's collection of American modernism and donated it to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts as part of his large gift in 1990."

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Delphinium/Forsythia
Stanley Bielen (1957- ), Polish born American
Oil on paper mounted on board, 5" x 7" (w x h), 2017
$1,500 USD
Somerville Manning Gallery, Wilmington, Philadelphia,
and in historic Breck's Mill on the Brandywine River

Stanley Bielen was born in Poland. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. He exhibits nationally and is represented in public and private collections, including the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. He lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Bridgton, Maine.

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Barn and Forsythia III
Wolf Kahn, (1927-2020), German born American
Lithograph in colors on wove paper
108 total edition includes 18 artist's proofs
38" x 28" (w x h), 2003
published by: Lincoln Center
for the Performing Arts, Inc., New York

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Three Chimneys
Carol Douglas, American
Oil on canvas board, 11" x 14" (w x h)
The artist's blog is HERE.

Carol Douglas paints and teaches in Rockport, Maine. She's taught workshops in Maine, New Mexico, and New York, her work exhibited in galleries across the United States. She studied at the Art Students League of New York. She's painted in the wilds of Canada, Alaska, Scotland, Australia, and Argentina. And Carol's also a painter friend.

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Marsha and Forsythia
Kurt Solmssen (1958- ), American
Oil on linen, 68" x 68" (w x h), 2020
$26,000 USD
The artist's website is HERE.

Kurt Solmssen is a Washington State painter with art in the collections of the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, the Bakersfield Museum of Art and the Tacoma Art Museum. He studied art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, B.F.A. 1986, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Certificate 1982, and through a William Emlen Cresson Traveling Scholarship 1983.