April 17, 2024
Large Antique Folk Art Pastoral Landscape with Figures/Cow, Signed (c. 1930)
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Large Antique Folk Art Pastoral Landscape with Figures, Cow, and Lake, Signed (c. 1930, Oil on Canvas). Original oil painting by Revington Arthur. Heavily textured pastoral landscape with figures in foreground and the process of filling of hay in the background. Signed in the lower left corner. In used condition with paint loss in sections of the bottom left quadrant. Canvas rippling in the top right corner.Size: 36.25 x 40.25 inAJ Revington Arthur was born in Stamford, CT, and traveled America looking for inspiration. While in school he studied under notable artists including George Luks, Arshile Gorky, Kimon Nicholaides, and Grant Reynard. The 1945 "Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting" at the Whitney Museum of American Art included Arthur's work. His artwork and exhibitions were reviewed in ARTnews in 1946 and 1953; and by Art Digest (now Arts Magazine) in 1984. In the 1946 review, Arthur was working in a "semi-Cubism" painting style.In the 1953 review, there was an abrupt change in Arthur's painting style, with a push towards flattened abstraction. During his career his work was exhibited throughout America including at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, the Carnegie Institute, and was published in Time and Esquire magazines. His work is in permanent collections in The Brooklyn
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