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Childs Gallery Established 1937 painting annual

Fall 2010 Volume 19 Childs Gallery painting annual Established 1937 fall 2010

Fine American and European Paintings, Prints, Drawings, Watercolors and Sculpture

Richard J. Baiano, President Stephanie V. Bond, Executive Vice President D. Roger Howlett, Senior Research Fellow Volume 19 169 Newbury Street Boston, MA 02116 Tradition and Innovation 617-266-1108 617-266-2381 fax childsgallery.com [email protected]

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our publications Childs Gallery Painting Annual was begun in 1980 and has become an established feature of the gallery and part of a publication tradition of more than seventy years of gallery publications and scholarship. In addition, the Childs Gallery Bulletin (begun 1950), the Print Annual (begun 1976) have been firmly established and are represented in almost every fine arts library in the country.A s early as the mid-1940s, however, Childs Gallery presented a publication entitled Currier and Ives Prints: A Collection… which represented the carefully considered collection of a single owner with Charles cover Jane Peterson Oil on canvas D. Childs’ commentary that “we cannot recall that a representative collection of these lithographs American (1876-1965) 23 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches has been shown in Boston for many years.” The newest publication series (2009) is Childs Gallery Woman at the Piano Signed lower left. Label verso: “O. Rundle Gilbert Auctioneer” Collections which celebrates collections, collecting, and collectors as a pivotal axis of the art world.

Painting Annual Volume 19, Fall 2010

Editor: Richard J. Baiano Assistant Editor: Stephanie V. Bond Childs Gallery Established 1937 Staff: Katya Adair, Gina Canning, Kathryn Fields, John Hamilton and Sally Norton 169 Newbury Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116-2895 Photography: Darren Stahlman|darrenstahlmanphotography.com Catalogue Design: Carlos Ridruejo|caridossa.com

It was an exciting year for acquisitions and exhibitions at Childs Gallery. Painting Annual 19 offers highlights of these notable works and shows, which span over three centuries, and include artists from the China Trade to current times. This catalogue reflects the truism of our founder’s vision that Childs Gallery is one of “generalists with specialties.” Each successive President, with his unique expertise, scholarship, and vision, has developed a specialty at Childs within the context of a generalist gallery. It is a tradition that continues today, and notable examples of our established specialties, as well as emerging ones, may be seen in the pages that follow. Childs Gallery has a long history in both scholarship and sales of marine paintings. In 1938, Charles D. Childs published the first article on Robert Salmon - “Robert Salmon: A Boston Painter of Ships and Views” – bringing the artist’s works to the attention of New England collectors, along with those of F. H. Lane, Thomas Birch and a host of other American and European marine painters. Similarly, Carl L. Crossman came to Childs Gallery in 1964 with a deep commitment to research in the American China Trade. He published the first volume on Chinese painters for the western market, The China Trade (1972). Continuing the tradition, D. Roger Howlett wrote William Partridge Burpee: American Marine Impressionist (1991) and The Lynn Beach Painters: Art Along the North Shore 1880-1920 (1998.) The latter delves into a group of marine and shore painters active north of Boston (including C. E. L. Green,) who were influenced by the French Impressionist and Dutch Modern schools. We are delighted to have fine examples from many of the artists listed above including Lai Fong, George Savory Wasson, C.E.L. Green and William Partridge Burpee. At the time of going to press, we received word that a Robert Salmon would soon make its way into our inventory as well. These works, and many others, will be featured in an upcoming exhibition on New England marine painting. A major Orientalist painting just passed through our hands and a progression of Luminist and American Impressionist works continue to come through the gallery, including paintings with exotic themes by Waterman, Smith, Chase and Macknight. We also manage many estates, such as Ben Norris, Gertrude Beals Bourne, Donald DeLue, Henry Botkin and Herbert Barnett – some for more than three decades. Childs Gallery has continued its long-term commitment to works by women artists, and has developed an emerging interest in modern and contemporary artists working in the figurative tradition. Our exhibits have featured Marion Greenwood and the Woodstock Artist Association, Anne Lyman Powers: Mid-century Expressionist, and Betty Herbert: America’s Wars. Soon to come is a show on Sally Michel, whose works are as coveted in our gallery as those of husband Milton Avery. We innovated this year in another way, with our first guest curator at Childs, William Stover. His exhibit, Clothes Make the Man? took an unconventional look at clothing and costume in art, juxtaposing significant 16th-20th century works from Childs with selections by innovative contemporary artists from other Boston galleries. And we have introduced younger contemporary artists such as Hannah Barrett and Anthony Moore. All of this is in the long-established goal of our founder: Committing to the traditions of the past with an eye towards the future, looking at existing gallery artists in new ways, and introducing additional living artists into the mix of splendid offerings. richard j. baiano, president

left Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl 11 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches Bavarian-American (1855-1932) Signed and dated lower left. The Dandy, 1884 In original gilded frame. Oil on panel above Hannah Barrett Oil on linen From a series of morphed, American (b. 1966) 60 x 36 inches androgynous portraits posed Tales from the House of Gibson: Exhibited Tales from the House of Gibson, after archival photographs Mr. Quackenboss, 2010 Gibson House, April through December 2010. of the Gibson family.

Fall 2010 Volume 19 5 3 1 3 1 George Savary Wasson Lai Fong American (1855-1932) Chinese (fl. 1870-1900) Seascape with Round Hulled Dinghies, circa 1880 Portrait of an American Clipper Ship, circa 1875 Oil on canvasboard Oil on canvas 16 5/8 x 23 1/2 inches 26 x 34 3/4 inches Signed lower left. Lai Fong was one of a group of Chinese ship painters active in the last quarter of the 19th century. Although this ship portrait belongs to the China Trade school 4 of painting, Lai Fong plied his trade in the harbor of George Savary Wasson Calcutta. This ship painting descended in the family of American (1855-1932) Captain Thomas Belch Perkins (1816-1875) of Topsfield and Salem, Massachusetts and his son Stephen Dustin Wreck of the Bangor, circa 1880 Perkins (1868-1943) of Salem. This splendid American Oil on canvas clipper ship was clearly in the India trade and making stops in Calcutta Harbor. The ship flies a house flag 11 5/8 x 17 3/4 inches which is probably that of I.F. Chapman of Bath, Maine. Signed lower left. 4

2 Neapolitan School 2 (early 19th century) Snow Fox of Boston Sailing up the Bay of Naples, 1801-1805 Oil on canvas 14 x 18 1/4 inches

6 Childs Gallery painting annual Fall 2010 Volume 19 7 7 5 7 5 William Partridge Burpee Charles E.L. Green American (1846-1940) American (1844-1915) Blackhead, Monhegan Island, Maine, circa 1920 North Shore Wharf Scene, circa 1910 Oil on canvas Oil on canvas 37 1/8 x 50 1/4 inches 14 x 18 inches From the estate of the artist. Signed lower right. EXHIBITED EXHIBITED Sea, Shore and Land: The Lynn Beach Painters at Home CEL Green: Shore and Landscape Painter of Lynn and Abroad, Lynn Museum, Lynn, MA, April 23 - October and Newlyn, Brockton Art Center, Fuller Memorial, 8, 2006. September 9-November 1, 1980.

8 6 Frederick J. Waugh William Partridge Burpee American (1861-1940) American (1846-1940) Early Morning, circa 1910 Lincoln Point and Lincoln House Hotel, Swampscott Oil on board from Lynn Beach (Massachusetts), circa 1892 12 x 16 inches 8 Oil on canvas, mounted to mahogany panel Signed lower right. 13 3/8 x 10 1/8 inches From the estate of the artist. Estate stencil verso.

8 Childs Gallery painting annual Fall 2010 Volume 19 9 9 Frederick Mulhaupt American (1871-1938) An October Evening, circa 1920 Oil on canvas 30 x 25 inches Signed lower left. Verso bears Salmagundi Club exhibition label.

EXHIBITED Annual Oil Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, 1920-1921.

10 Emile A. Gruppe American (1896-1978) Return of the Fleet, circa 1940 Oil on canvas 22 x 28 inches Signed lower right. Titled on stretcher. 10

11 Aldro Thompson Hibbard American (1886-1972) Docked in Rockport, circa 1935 Oil on canvas 17 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches Signed lower left.

12 Joseph Margulies American (1896-1984) Day’s End, circa 1945 Oil on canvas 20 x 24 1/4 inches From the estate of the artist.

10 Childs Gallery painting annual Fall 2010 Volume 19 11 13 Marcus A. Waterman American (1834-1914) Mercia, Spain, circa 1885

Oil on canvas 15 9 x 17 inches Signed lower left. 15 Frank Hill Smith Frank Hill Smith is known for his luminist landscape, American (1842-1904) marine and portrait paintings. After his successful 14 Gondoliers, Venice, 1873 stint in France, Smith traveled to Venice, painting the Dodge Macknight people and architecture of La Serenissima. His Venetian American (1860-1950) Oil on canvas paintings again garnered triumphant results, attracting 17 x 25 1/2 inches the attention of prominent Boston collector Isabella Date Palms, North Africa, circa 1895 Stewart Gardner. Isabella Stewart Gardner acquired Watercolor Signed and dated lower left. In original frame. the painting sometime between 1873 and 1880 when she was living at 152 Beacon Street. She had not yet 15 1/8 x 22 7/8 inches EXHIBITED stayed in the Palazzo Barbero and, indeed, may not Signed lower left. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, circa 1880. Museum of yet have visited Venice when she bought the painting. Fine Arts label verso: “Subject Venice/Owner Mrs. John Gondoliers, Venice, however, would have been at home 14 L. Gardner Jr./Date of loan April 26, ‘80/152 Beacon in her later residence, the Boston Venetian style villa, St”. Also with label verso: “No. 21”. Fenway Court. The painting did not make its permanent Ex-collection Isabella Stewart Gardner. home there, however, and is one of the few works that does not still belong to the Isabella Stewart Gardner PROVENANCE Museum. Ms. Gardner gave the painting to Teobaldo Available on request. Travi, one of her most trusted employees.

12 Childs Gallery painting annual Fall 2010 Volume 19 13 16 Beatrice Whitney Van Ness American (1888-1981) Nude with Draperies, circa 1910 Oil on canvas 48 1/2 x 23 3/4 inches Signed verso. From the estate of the artist.

17 Susan Miller Chase American (20th century) Woman in Blue Flowered Robe Oil on board 10 x 8 inches Signed lower right.

18 William Merritt Chase American (1849-1916) Dancing Girl, circa 1881 Oil on canvas 26 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches Signed upper right: “W.M. Chase”. Inscribed on label verso: “Street Dancer / Italy / by William M. Chase”. Verso bears Museum of Fine Arts, Boston label 2096.13.

EXHIBITED Probably exhibited at the Boston Art Club, “Exhibition of Pictures, Studies and Sketches by Mr. Wm. M. Chase of New York City” November 18-December 4 1886 as #57, Spanish Dancing Girl.

PROVENANCE In Chase Studio New York, circa 1881; possibly at 16 Boston Art Club, 1886; to Mrs. W.B. Sewall, Boston, 1906; to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on loan from Mrs. W.B. Sewall, Nov. 2, 1906 to October 30, 1913; to Rufus L. Sewall, Harold I. Sewall and William G. Sewall; to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on loan, October 30, 1913 to July 5, 1922; to private collections in Boston and New York; to Childs Gallery, Boston.

PUBLISHED William Merritt Chase: Portraits in Oil by Ronald Pisano. (2006) Entry OP.99 “Street Dancer, Italy (Study of A Woman; Girl Dancing), ca 1882.

18 14 Childs Gallery painting annual Fall 2010 Volume 19 15 21 Bryson Burroughs American (1869-1934) Andromeda Rescued, 1934 Oil on canvas 30 x 36 inches Signed and dated lower right. Inscribed, titled and dated on stretcher.

EXHIBITED Bryson Burroughs Memorial Exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1935, Illustrated in catalog, no. 53.

22 Erik Desmazières French (b.1948) Scène de tremblement de terre, 1987 Ink, gouache and pencil on paper 19 26 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches Signed and dated lower right. 19 Molly Luce Scène de tremblement de terre relates to Desmazières’ American (1896-1986) etchings (Fitch-Febvrel catalogue raisonné 93 and 94) which illustrates scenes from the novella Le Interruption, 1939 Tremblement de terre du Chili (The Earthquake in Chile) Oil on canvas by Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811). The novella’s central characters are two lovers, caught up in the chaos of the 24 x 30 inches 1647 earthquake in Santiago. Signed lower right. Erik Desmazières’ second exhibition at Childs Gallery, Erik Desmazières: Infinite Perspectives, was featured in the Childs Gallery Collections catalogue Volume 2, 20 December 2009. Please inquire for your copy. Donald De Lue American (1897-1988) Jupiter as the Bull, 1931 Bronze 25 x 18 x 5 7/8 inches Gilded Bronze with brown/green patina base, and black patina on horns and hooves. Number 13 in an edition of 15. Signed, dated, and numbered left side back of upper base. Cast at the Tallix Foundry in Beacon, NY. 20 “As with Pegasus, De Lue drew on an animal from Greek mythology and gave him supernatural power and a joyous cavorting character. De Lue first patinated the plaster in a pewtery silver and patined the bronzes to conform. However, he enjoyed with this sculpture, more than almost any other, exploring the range of patinas that would reveal new sensibilities and nuances in the work.” from D. Roger Howlett Donald De Lue: Gods, Prophets, and Heroes (1990), pg. 22. 22

16 Childs Gallery painting annual Fall 2010 Volume 19 17 24 Jane Peterson American (1876-1965) Zinnias Oil on canvas 24 x 24 inches Signed lower left.

25 Ernest Fiene American (1894-1965) Thistles with Greek Relief, circa 1946-50 Oil on canvas 25 x 30 inches Signed lower right. Titled and signed on stretcher.

26 Herbert Barnett American (1910-1972) Compote and Yellow Pitcher, circa 1965 23 Oil on masonite

23 24 x 36 inches Gertrude Beals Bourne Signed lower right. American (1868-1962)

Birds of Paradise, circa 1939-40 Watercolor on paper 22 3/4 x 19 7/8 inches Signed lower left. 26 From the estate of the artist, estate stamp verso.

18 Childs Gallery painting annual Fall 2010 Volume 19 19 27 29 Henry Botkin Sally Michel American (1896-1983) American (1902-2003) Sunscape, 1959 Reflected Grove, 1966 Oil on board Oil on canvas board 43 3/4 x 33 7/8 inches 24 x 36 inches Signed lower left. Signed and dated center right. Titled and dated verso center in pencil. From the estate of the artist. From the estate of the artist.

30 Ben Norris American (1910-2006) Hawaiian Landscape Composition I, 1950 Watercolor 20 1/4 x 27 1/8 inches Signed and dated lower right. Titled and inscribed verso. From the estate of the artist.

28 Henry Botkin American (1896-1983) The Cove, circa 1925 30 Oil on board 15 7/8 x 19 7/8 inches 31 Signed lower left. Signed and titled verso. Betty Herbert American (b.1929) From the estate of the artist. Iraq Series: Baseball in the Desert, 2005 Oil on linen 9 x 12 inches Signed lower left. Inscribed, signed, and dated verso. Cate McQuaid of the Boston Globe calls Betty Herbert’s paintings “fervent, declarative works, brushed and smeared and dripped onto the canvas with great heart.” 28 Betty Herbert: America’s Wars, was featured in the Childs Gallery Collections catalogue Volume 4, August 2010. Please inquire for your copy. 31

20 Childs Gallery painting annual Fall 2010 Volume 19 21 32 34 Marion Greenwood Seymour Fogel American (1909-1970) American (1911-1984) Beggar Woman, or Mexican Madonna, circa 1957 We Want Bread Not Bullets, 1933 Oil on canvas Litho crayon, ink wash, and watercolor on paper 34 x 26 inches 22 1/4 x 17 1/8 inches Signed lower left. From the Joseph and Marjorie Relkin Signed and dated in pencil lower right. Collection.

EXHIBITED 132nd Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, 1957; Art: USA: 59, New York Coliseum, April 3-19, 1959; Marion Greenwood Memorial Show, Woodstock Artists Association, September 9-25, 1972.

34 32 35 33 Seymour Fogel Marion Greenwood American (1911-1984) American (1909-1970) Down with Hitler and Fascism, 1933 Demi-Clad Woman Gouache, watercolor, and ink on paper Oil on canvas 11 x 8 1/2 inches 36 x 24 inches Signed and dated in pencil lower right. Signed lower left.

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36 Diego Giacometti Swiss (1902-1985) L’Autruche [The Ostrich], circa 1977 Bronze with ostrich egg 19 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches Inscribed “DIEGO” on the underside of the sculpture body.

37 Donald De Lue American (1897-1988) Job, 1986 Bronze and black Imperial marble 9 1/2 x 25 x 10 inches Dark Renaissance brown patina. Number 3 in an edition of 12. Signed, dated, and numbered on front of right side of base. Cast at the Tallix Foundry in Beacon, NY. “Job, as much as any work of De Lue, shows the male torso in repose. De Lue cannot make him emaciated or covered with sores; instead, he focuses his attention on a single star or spiritual point of light for Job to think on God” from D. Roger Howlett Donald De Lue: Gods, Prophets, and Heroes, 1990, pg. XXI.

38 Anthony Moore 38 British (b. 1952) Pavise #2, 2009 Oil on panel 27 x 13 inches

36 24 Childs Gallery painting annual Fall 2010 Volume 19 25 Title Image Page Retail price Barnett, Herbert Compote and Yellow Pitcher, circa 1965 26 19 $7,800 Barrett, Hannah Tales from the House of Gibson: Mr. Quackenboss, 2010 5 POR Botkin, Henry Sunscape, 1959 27 20 $16,000 Botkin, Henry The Cove, circa 1925 28 20 $8,500 list of works Bourne, Gertrude Beals Birds of Paradise, circa 1939-40 23 18 $5,200 Burpee, William Partridge Lincoln Point and Lincoln House Hotel, Swampscott from Lynn Beach (Mass), circa 1892 6 8 $18,000 Burpee, William Partridge Blackhead, Monhegan Island, Maine, circa 1920 7 9 POR Burroughs, Bryson Andromeda Rescued, 1934 21 17 $28,000 Chase, Susan Miller Woman in Blue Flowered Robe 17 14 $3,500 Chase, William Merrit Dancing Girl, circa 1881 18 15 POR De Lue, Donald Jupiter as the Bull, 1931 20 16 POR De Lue, Donald Job, 1986 37 25 POR Desmazières, Erik Scene de tremblement de terre, 1987 22 17 $10,000 Dolice, Leon Snow on Wall Street, circa 1950 Back Cover $28,000 Fiene, Ernest Thistles with Greek Relief, circa 1946-50 25 19 $19,500 Fogel, Seymour We Want Bread Not Bullets, 1933 34 23 $12,500 Fogel, Seymour Down with Hitler and Facsism, 1933 35 23 $7,500 Fong, Lai Portrait of an American Clipper Ship, circa 1875 1 6 $18,000 Gaugengigl, Ignaz Marcel The Dandy, 1884 4 POR Giacometti, Diego L’Autruche [The Ostrich], circa 1977 36 24 POR Green, Charles E.L. North Shore Wharf Scene, 1890-1910 5 8 $28,000 39 Greenwood, Marion Beggar Woman, or Mexican Madonna, circa 1957 32 22 $22,000 Dudley Vaill Talcott Greenwood, Marion American (1899-1986) Demi-Clad Woman 33 22 $16,000 Late Abstract Shape 16 Gruppe, Emile A. The Fleet Returning 10 11 POR Resin Herbert, Betty Iraq Series: Baseball in the Desert, 2005 31 21 $3,500 Hibbard, Aldro Thompson Docked in Rockport 11 11 POR Luce, Molly Interruption, 1939 19 16 $18,000 Macknight, Dodge Date Palms, North Africa, circa 1895 14 12 $28,000 Margulies, Joseph Day’s End, circa 1945 12 11 $5,500 Michel, Sally Reflected Grove, 1966 29 21 $17,500 Anne Lyman Powers Oil on canvas Moore, Anthony American (b.1922) 40 x 36 inches 38 25 POR Pavise #2, 2009 The Dancing Bear, circa 1950-52 Signed lower right. Mulhaupt, Frederick An October Evening 9 10 POR Neapolitan School Anne Powers: Mid-century Expressionist, was featured in the Childs Gallery Collections Snow Fox of Boston Sailing up the Bay of Naples, 1801-1805 2 6 $12,000 catalogue Volume 3, May 2010. Please inquire for your copy. Norris, Ben Hawaiian Landscape Composition I, 1950 30 21 $7,500 Peterson, Jane Woman at the Piano Front Cover POR Peterson, Jane Zinnias 24 19 $28,000 Powers, Anne Lyman The Dancing Bear, circa 1950-52 Inside Back Cover $28,000 Smith, Frank Hill Gondoliers, Venice, 1873 15 13 $25,000 Talcott, Dudley Vail Late Abstract Shape 16 39 26 $3,000 Van Ness, Beatrice Whitney POR Price on request. Nude with Draperies, circa 1910 16 14 $15,000 Wasson, George Savary Seascape with Round Hulled Dinghies, circa 1880 3 7 $25,000 Childs Gallery Wasson, George Savary Established 1937 Wreck of the Bangor, circa 1880 4 7 $15,000 Waterman, Marcus A. Mercia, Spain, circa 1885 13 12 $19,000 Fine American and European Paintings Waugh, Frederick J. Early Morning, circa 1910 8 9 $11,500 Prints, Drawings, Watercolors and Sculpture

169 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 617-266-1108 [email protected] childsgallery.com 26 Childs Gallery painting annual Leon Dolice American (1892-1960) Signed lower right. Snow on Wall Street, circa 1950 Frame constructed from salvaged Oil on canvas wood following the demolition of the 42 x 28 inches catwalk of 3rd Ave. EL (NYC).

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Fine American and European Paintings Prints, Drawings, Watercolors and Sculpture

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