Lot 487
Carl R. Dietz (American, apparently active 1884-1913), "A Contented Flock", oil on canvas, signed and dated "1913" lower right, 25 in. x 30 in., in a period walnut frame. E2000-3000 Provenance: Found in Lancaster, PA. Note: The painter of this appealing and professionally executed image of productive husbandry clearly records his name as "C R. Dietz", and the date of this picture as 1913; while the stretcher is contemporaneously labeled as having been supplied by "F. Weber & Co , Chestnut Street, Philadelphia." These facts make it virtually certain that this artist is identical with the "Carl S.[sic? Dietz" who is recorded as having exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1884 and 1885, but whose middle initial might have been mistaken in the Academy lists, or mistranscribed in their publication. Such an assumption would give the artist more correctly identified (on the basis of this signature) as Carl R. Dietz a working life of some 30 years, from c. 1883 to at least 1913-and a resulting life span of ( very roughly) c. 1860 or earlier to perhaps c. 1915 or later, that is an approximate 55 or more years. Given the triple conjunction of (1) Dietz's documented record of exhibition in Philadelphia, with (2) the presence of an original Philadelphia label on this stretcher, and (3) the provenance of this painting from the heartland of the "Pennsylvania Dutch" (that is, German-derived) population, in Lancaster, the Dietz authorship is ascertained.
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