April 17, 2024
John A. Scoville, American 1937-1996, Modernist, Tonalist, Landscapes - Rare #7
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Jonathan Scoville (1937-1996) Untitled Oil on Canvas 13” x 18” Small wood frame Deaccessioned from New Britain Museum of Art Signed and dated lower left Landscape Painter Jonathan Scoville’s (1937-1996)paintings of mountains and sky show the forces of nature at work. More visionary than realistic, his paintings present cloud formations both lyrical and turbulent and mountain forms as observed from his studio in West Cornwall, CT. Mr. Scoville, was a descendant of Samuel F. B. Morse, was born in Manhattan and grew up in New York City, New Haven and Cornwall. He graduated from the Browning School in Manhattan and studied art at New York University and the Art Students League. He settled in Cornwall, CT, living and working in a house he built by hand on ancestral property. Scoville’s work has always been highly regarded, and he received fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and two state Commission on the Arts grants as well as other arts organizations. His first solo show was at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston in 1971. His art was included in a 1989 invitational show called ``Connecticut Artists'' at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield. His last show while he was living was a retrospective, held in SoHo in 1995 at the Condeso-Lawler Gallery, which had represented his work since 1981. His
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