BURTON S BOUNDEY IMPORTANT EARLY CALIFORNIA PAINTER N/R

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Nice southwest scene by well listed early California artist Burton Shepard Boundey 1879 - 1962. Boundey is included in more than a dozen major art reference books. He was a past president of the Carmel Art Association and his work is highly sought in that area in particular. His work is in major public and private collections and is handled by some of the top galleries as well as the major auction houses. His high price at public auction is over $22,000.00 and his work sells at even higher prices in the galleries. The painting offered here is a mixed media (mostly gouache but also watercolor and possibly a little pastel and/or crayon) on artist board measuring approximately 19" x 25". It is signed lower left. The painting is being shown in an old mat and frame which will be removed prior to shipping to keep the shipping costs down. They don't do the painting justice and should be replaced anyway. If you want them, I am happy to include for free but the shipping cost will be increased by probably about $15 - $20 due to dimensional weight shipping fees. The painting is in good condition with the exception of some slight wrinkle ? in the board surface (please see close up photo of the area). I will post the artist's biography for you below. PLEASE BE SURE TO ADD 2% OF SALES PRICE (ROUNDED UP TO THE NEAREST $100) for first $1,000 and 1% for each additional $100 TO COVER THE COST OF SHIPPING INSURANCE ON ALL ITEMS THAT SELL FOR MORE THAN $100.00. FAILURE TO DO SO MAY RESULT IN A DELAY IN SHIPPING OF YOUR ITEM. BIOGRAPHY: This biography from the Archives of AskART: Burton Boundey was a prolific painter in bold modernist style and muralist active in California during the early twentieth century. He was a native of Wisconsin, born in the town of Oconomowoc in 1879. Boundey pursued his early art education in Chicago, Illinois, at the Art Institute of Chicago and Smith Academy. He then went to New York City where he was a pupil of Robert Henri and George Bellows. In 1927 he moved to Monterey, California, and promptly opened a studio there. He taught at the nearby Carmel Art Institute and was a member of the American Artists Professional League. He painted marines and coastal scenes in and around Carmel and Monterey and was a skilled watercolorist and oil painter. His artwork was exhibited at the Carmel Art Association, the Oakland Art Gallery, the Santa Cruz Art League, the San Francisco Art Association and the Pasadena Art Institute. Boundey died of a heart attack in his Pacific Grove, California, home in 1962. Source:Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940""American Art Review", August 1998 Biography from The Kendall Collection : Burton Shephard Boundey was born in 1879 in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. The son of a house painter, Boundey had to work for three years after high school in order to afford enrollment in the Chicago Art Institute. He was immmediately placed in the advanced class. Boundey switched to the Chicago Art Academy in order to study drawing from live models, but without financial support, was only able to attend classes sporatically. For five years he scraped by with assorted jobs, including one as Academy janitor that allowed him to sleep nights in the unheated classroom.In 1907 Boundey headed West, working briefly in Oregon painting theater backdrops before landing in Los Angeles in 1908. There he joined the Los Angeles Painter’s Club, where he sold his first painting. Still finances burdened him, and he was forced to pick oranges, painting when he could. In 1909, Boundey moved to San Jose, where he met his future wife (Letitia Brown).Boundey then returned East, this time to New York City, where he became standout pupil of Robert Henri and George Bellows. His fellow students included George Luks and William Glackens. His time in New York was short lived, however, as he returned to his birthplace in 1910 to aid his ailing father. During this period, he designed a “tiny portable studio on runners which could be pushed ab... read more

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