Original Vintage Antique American Abstract Precisionist Cubist Charles Sheeler Manner Petit Manan Island Maine Lighthouse Oil Painting
Antique American precisionist abstract oil, (and possibly tempera), painting on canvas of the Petit Manan Island, Maine lighthouse; with a flat blue background. The abstract precisionist manner with undercurrents of flat cubism, reveals the painting to be an early painting in the precisionist school of artists that include Charles Sheeler, George Copeland Ault, Edward Hopper, Charles Demuth, and Ralston Crawford. Out of this group, the artists rendering lighthouses specifically as their (architectural) subject include: Charles Sheeler, George Copeland Ault, and Edward Hopper. The painting's provenance was in a barn, in Maine, for decades, before the latest acquisition. The flat blue sky background and clear block forms in the smaller buildings have much in common with Charles Sheeler's later works. The painting contains Charles Sheeler's palette of light mint green, with darker hunter green against blue, and sobering darker grey and brown, contrasting with highlights of the white palette. The painting's age is estimated at 1955, when Charles Sheeler vacationed in Maine, at the residence of Maine Modernist artist, John Marin.
Online Reference/Link: https://charlessheeler.org/charles-sheeler/timeline/
Jessica Murphy
Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
November 2009"
Historical Reference, Petit Manan Island, Maine Lighthouse: http://www.newenglandlighthouses.net/uploads/1/0/7/9/10793331/9842464.jpg?465
"President James Monroe authorized the building of a lighthouse on Petit Manan Island in 1817. It served to guide shipping traffic toward several bays and harbors in the vicinity, and also to warn mariners of a dangerous bar between the island and Petit Manan Point on the mainland."
Online Link: http://www.newenglandlighthouses.net/petit-manan-light-history.html
Charles Sheeler, Manner of
(1883-1965)
American Precisionist Movement, Cubist, Modernist, Abstract
Architectural, Maine Lighthouse
Petit Manan Island Lighthouse
Oil on Canvas, (possible tempera mix)
Estimated age at 1955, when Charles Sheeler took his summer vacation in Cape Split, Maine,
with Maine artist, John Marin.
Signature is light and degraded from age. Due to the lightness/degradation of the signature, the painting is listed as an attribution to Charles Sheeler
16"X20"
Nails hold canvas to back stretcher bars, alongside.
Minor defects have light pressure line from back canvas stretcher bars. Dark marking in the upper left area, as shown. Good overall stable condition. No overpaints; all paint present on the painting is original, from the artist.
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