Recent Arrivals

Insights into historic American artwork newly available from galleries and dealers around the country

Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), Alaska Impression #37, 1919. Oil on panel, 12 x 157/8 in., signed and dated lower right: ‘Rockwell Kent, Alaska, 1919’. Available at Thomas Colville Fine Art, Guilford, CT.

Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)

Alaska Impression #37
In the summer of 1918, Rockwell Kent and his 9-year-old son traveled to remote Fox Island in Alaska to spend seven months in a cabin overlooking Resurrection Sound where he hoped to find spiritual and artistic renewal. He brought with him 22 small wooden panels on which he painted his Alaska Impressions in plein air, later exhibiting them in New York to both critical acclaim and financial success. This view was made in front of his cabin looking across the sound toward Bear Glacier. Kent captured the frozen atmosphere with quick energetic brush strokes whose gestural significance is heightened within the context of a cool, muted gray-blue palette. The work retains its original fame designed by Kent’s artist friend Max Kuehne.
Thomas Colville Fine Art
111 Old Quarry Road • Guilford, CT 06437
(203) 453-2449 • tlc@thomascolville.com • www.thomascolville.com

Anna Mary Richards Brewster (1870-1952), A Rock Garden in Scarsdale. Oil on canvas, 13 x 18 in., signed lower left. Available at Hawthorne Fine Art, New York, NY.

Anna Mary Richards Brewster (1870-1952)

A Rock Garden in Scarsdale
Anna Mary Richards Brewster was the daughter of renowned seascapist William Trost Richards. Brewster’s innate talent combined with early lessons in art from her father led her to exhibit at the National Academy of Design at just 14 years of age. Recently acquired at auction by Hawthorne Fine Art, A Rock Garden in Scarsdale depicts a white house surrounded by verdant coniferous trees atop a sloping hillside rock garden. The pale yellows, blues and pinks capture early spring in Westchester, New York. Brewster moved from New York City to Scarsdale, New York. Brewster was founding member of the Scarsdale Art Association and deeply involved in art instruction in the community, where she lived for over four decades until her death in 1952. Today her work is in the collections of the Butler Institute of American Art, New Britain Museum of Art, Lyman Allyn Museum of Art, Georgia Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Fogg
Art Museum of Harvard University, Stanford University and Barnard College.
Hawthorne Fine Art
By Appointment • New York, NY 10017• (212) 731-0550 • info@hawthornefineart.com • www.hawthornefineart.com

Jane Peterson (1876-1965), Tiffany’s Gardens at Laurelton Hall, ca. 1911. Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in. Available at Debra Force Fine Art, New York, NY.

Jane Peterson (1876-1965)

Tiffany’s Gardens at Laurelton Hall
Working in watercolor and oils, Jane Peterson portrayed a broad variety of subjects, including the many places to which she traveled, portraits, figurative works and still lifes. At age 19 she left Illinois for New York where she studied at Pratt Institute under painter Arthur Wesley Dow. In 1907, Peterson embarked on a tour of European artists’ colonies, studying first in London, then Paris. She began to receive portrait commissions in 1908 and to exhibit her work. Her scenes of her time abroad received critical acclaim and established her as an artist capable of selling European Old World charm to an American audience. The current example dates from the artist’s time at Laurelton Hall, Tiffany’s estate Long Island, New York, and shows the loggia on the grounds and hollyhocks in a nearby garden. Painted in an impressionistic style, the work abounds with plant life. Exercising her skill as a colorist, Peterson dots the canvas with yellows, oranges and blues in between the stems and leaves of varying shades of green to emphasize the lushness of the gardens. The colors, forms and textures of the hollyhocks, the sun-dappled ivy crawling across the loggia, and the grounds visible through the archway contrast with the path cutting through the scene. Here, the artist used thin, abstracted brushstrokes to indicate the reflections in the thin layer of water which accumulated there.
Debra Force Fine Art
13 E. 69th Street, Suite 4F • New York, NY 10021• (212) 734-3636 • info@debraforce.com • www.debraforce.com

Frances Kornbluth (1920-2014), Untitled, ca. 1958. Oil on panel, 20 x 16¼ in. Available at J. Kenneth Fine Art, Shelburne, VT.

Frances Kornbluth (1920-2014)

Untitled
Frances Kornbluth, a female artist of the post-war era, was born in New York City on July 26, 1920. As a child, she developed a passion for the piano and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1940 with a degree in music. During World War II, while her husband was overseas, she worked in Washington D.C. After the war, Kornbluth and her husband moved to Long Island, New York, where, in 1947, Kornbluth began painting figures and still lifes. In 1955, she enrolled in the Brooklyn Museum School, where she studied for four years with William Kienbusch and Reuben Tam. During this time, Kornbluth painted in studio and in plein air. Her work became increasingly abstract. Her mentor, Tam, encouraged Kornbluth to exhibit her work at the Brooklyn Museum and the City Center Gallery and introduced her to Maine’s Monhegan Island in 1957, where she would spend the summers painting for the next 57 years. She would later credit Tam with “defining me as the artist I had never envisioned becoming.”

J. Kenneth Fine Art
45 Pine Haven Shores, Suite 1133 A • Shelburne, VT 05482 (802) 540-0267 • jkennethfineart@gmail.com • www.jkennethfineart.com