The Art of Woods
in Blues and/or Purples
It's wonderful to find most of the major art museums in the world with their art collections online with quality images. However it glaringly exposes those museums' cultural past practice of gender discrimination. Thus this selection below is only men. Fortunately art museums have recognized this past gender bias and are correcting it.in Blues and/or Purples
Landscape
Henri-Edmond Cross (1856-1910) French
Watercolor on paper, circa 1908 - 1909
Private Collection
Henri-Edmond Cross, born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix in 1856, was a French painter and printmaker. He was a significant influence on Henri Matisse as well as other artists. Cross is known as a master of Neo-Impressionism, playing an important role in shaping the second phase of that movement and his work was instrumental in the development of Fauvism.
Woods near Oele (Eastern Netherlands)
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) Dutch
Oil on canvas, 62" x 50" (w x h), 1908
Gemeentemuseum den Haag, Hague, Netherlands
Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (1872-1944), after 1906 known as Piet Mondrian, was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the great artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th-century abstract art. He changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.
About this work Piet Mondrian said, "This painting, painted in 1908, is very important to me because it was before the painting Square Canvases that made me famous. Before Square, I was a landscape artist, and let me tell you - I loved to fool myself with the avant-garde. The forest landscape is actually a painting in the Fauvist school, like the one we see at the Festival of Random Colors, part of a forest on the Dutch outskirts of Amsterdam. But in this work, you can also see how I distanced myself from the traditional perspective and gradually approached my characteristic abstraction by using straight lines and primary colors."
Sunset in the Redwoods
Werner Drewes (1899-1985) Born Germany, now Poland
Color woodcut on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Gift of the artist
Werner Drewes (1899-1985) was a painter, printmaker, and art teacher. Considered to be one of the founding fathers of American abstraction, he was one of the first artists to introduce concepts of the Bauhaus school within the United States. Drewes was as highly regarded for his printmaking as much as for his painting. He was a university professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
Cosmos
Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) American
Oil on canvas, 30" x 30" (w x h), circa 1908 and 1909
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), the youngest of nine children was born in Lewiston, Maine, was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist. Hartley developed his painting abilities by observing Cubist artists in Paris and Berlin. Two of Hartley's Cezanne-inspired still life paintings and six charcoal drawings were selected to be included in the landmark 1913 Armory Show in New York. He traveled widely to paint. In 1930 he spent the summer and fall painting mountains in New Hampshire. He finally returned to Maine in 1937, after declaring that he wanted to become "the painter of Maine" and depict American life at a local level. For the remainder of his life he worked in Maine locations including Georgetown, Vinalhaven, Brooksville, Corea, and Mt. Katahdin until his death from congestive heart failure in Ellsworth in 1943. His ashes were scattered on the Androscoggin River.
Violet Woods
Wolf Kahn (1927-2020) American/German
Oil on canvas, 36" x 28" (w x h), 1992
Freeman's Auction 2023 sold $53,550
When Wolf Kahn moved to Vermont in 1968, he found inspiration in the rural landscapes of New England. Kahn would often use vivid hues and natural light to infuse warmth and vibrancy into his works. In Violet Woods, purples, blues, pinks and bright yellow dance across the sky, while energetic trees spring forth from an electric green ground. Through his use of broad and quick brushstrokes, the artist conveyed a sense of movement and energy.
Redding Woods, Connecticut
Portfolio Color Nature Landscapes II
Paul Caponigro (1932- ), American
Cibachrome color print photograph, 13" x 20" (w x h), 1969
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Paul Caponigro, from Boston, Massachusetts was awarded The Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography in 2001. His photographic work is included in the collections of the Guggenheim, Whitney, Norton Simon Museum, New Mexico Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Study in Blue and Purple
George Herbert Baker (1878-1943) American
Pastel on paper, 12" x 9" (w x h)
Eldred's 2020 East Dennis, MA auction sold $190 USD
From a New Hampshire Collection of Paintings.
Private collection
George Herbert Baker (1878-1943), born in Muncie Indiana, was an American Impressionist artist who worked primarily in the Richmond, Indiana area. He was a member of the Richmond Group of painters. He worked in oil, watercolor and pastels. He studied with John Elwood Bundy, at the Cincinnati Art Academy and the Boothbay Art School. In 1925 he was a visiting instructor at Miami University.
His work is represented in the collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Haan Mansion Museum of Indiana Art, Richmond Art Museum, Earlham College, Miami University Art Museum, Morrisson-Reeves Library, Centerville, Indiana Library. The Richmond Art Museum held a retrospective of his work in 2001, the largest exhibition of his work ever mounted.
Libido of the Forest
Paul Klee (1879-1940) German born Swiss
Watercolor on gesso on fabric mounted on cardboard,
10" x 7" (w x h), 1917
The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Paul Klee's unique style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. His art studies began in 1898 in Munich. Later he was involved with the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter, founded by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. He and Kandinsky, both taught at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture in Germany. His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.
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