Exhibition of early members

 

Wilson Irvine,  1869 -  1936

This piece was found in storage at the academy - though I’d call it one of the better pieces in our collection. It has a strong sense of place and time - as well as an intriguing pattern.

It has a horizontal flow - as well as a flatness - that recalls traditional Chinese landscape painting.  None of his other works online are like it.

Henning Ryden (1869 -1939)

Born in Sweden.

Like many of the pieces in this show,

this comes from the collection of our current President, Stuart Fullerton.

All of the pieces shown on this blog entry are  Stuart’s

except for the Wilson Irvine and this sculpture:

Bruno Beghe

T

Karl Krafft  

Gianni Cilfone, Belmont Harbor

 Frank Raymond 

Walter Parke (1909-1994)

there's much more about him here

This is the kind of  dry, factual, precise study that was required by students of the French academy in the 19th and 18th centuries. Even Cezanne did them as a student  and so did Matisse.

As images  in their own right, however, they sure feel cold, clinical, joyless, awkward, and  boring, 

Curtis Gandy, 1864-1950

Portrait of Rivera-Rigaldo

Arnold Turtle

Arnold Turtle

Gianni Cilfone (1908-1992)

 J. Jeffrey Grant. (1883 - 1960)

Fred Larson

Nat Steinberg

Nat Steinberg