Original Antique Edward Charles Volkert Attributed Cattle Sunlit Spring Landscape American Impressionist Oil Painting
Original vintage antique oil painting of cattle in a spring/summer landscape in the manner of Edward Charles Volkert, (1871-1935).
Edward Charles Volkert (1871–1935) was an American impressionist artist best known for his colorful and richly painted impressionist landscapes. His trademark subject was that of cattle and plowmen. His style is noted for its impressionist use of light, applied in small dots of paint while maintaining an interest in the true forms and colors of his subject matter. He has been referred to as America's cattle painter extraordinaire."
Volkert was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1871. He studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati under Frank Duveneck whose draftsmanship would influence Volkert. His mature style combined elements of the Barbizon School of Painting and Impressionism. The academic institutions he attended were the Art Students League of New York and the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He also studied under George de Forest Brush, Henry Siddons Mowbray, and William Merritt Chase.
Volkert was originally a portraitist but ceased painting portraits after his marriage ended in divorce. For many years he traveled between Cincinnati and New York City, painting many oil paintings of cattle in Ohio farmlands. While living in New York, Volkert was president of the Bronx Art Guild. Other Association and Club Memberships included the American Federation of Arts, the National Academy of Design, the National Arts Clu, the New York Watercolor Society, the Paint and Clay Club, the Duveneck Society of Cincinnati, and the Salmagundi Club.
Edward Charles Volkert, attributed
(1871–1935)
Oil on Canvas nailed to back stretcher bars
Estimated to have been created in approximately 1923
Painting alone measures approximately 20.2" X 22", without the frame
In frame, the painting measures approximately 22.75" X 24.75"
Signed lower left, in red, but it is illegible.
The painting has writing, verso wooden stretcher bars, "Property of Emma L Welty". There is a prairie farmer from Lee County, Illinois that was registered with the genealogy database in 1917, and was born in 1886.
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