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Lot 99
Description:
Paul Sawyier (American/Kentucky, 1865-1917), "Fishing Club, Jamaica Bay, New York City", c. 1915, oil on canvas board, signed lower left, titled on brass artist¹s plaque, and with "Russell¹s Canvas Board...Pictures, Mirrors, Artistic Framing, Brooklyn, New York" and "Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia" labels en verso, 14 in. x 17 in., in an attractive period giltwood frame.
- Notes: Note: Kentucky artist Paul Sawyier was one of the few Southern painters working in the Impressionist style in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He studied under Thomas Noble at the Cincinnati Art Academy in 1884, then with William Merritt Chase at the Art Student¹s League in NY in 1889-90 and later with Frank Duveneck in Covington, Kentucky in 1890. Upon completing his studies, Sawyier returned to Frankfort where he painted scenes of the Elkhorn Creek and Kentucky River, most often in the medium of watercolor. He was quite prolific and active on the local scene, but wanting a broader market for his work, moved to New York in 1913 where he lived with his sister. Interestingly, this geographic move corresponded with a change in Sawyier¹s preferred medium from watercolor to oil. Many of his oils date from this period and depict scenes of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, Central Park , and, as is the case with the work offered here, Jamaica Bay. This masterwork of American Impressionism depicts the Fishing Club at Jamaica Bay with a beautifully rendered sailboat tied to the pier, the dappled light of the sky at play on the water.
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March 27, 2010 10:00 AM CDT
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