LISTED AMERICAN ARTIST, CHARLES PAUL GRUPPE (1860-1940) 4 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS

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WELL LISTED AMERICAN ARTIST, CHARLES PAUL GRUPPE (1860-1940) 4 ORIGINAL DRAWINGSYou are bidding on set of 4 original impressionist pencil drawings on paper of sailboats by well listed American artist: Charles Paul Gruppe (1860-1940) in OK condition, one of them is in a good condition but the others have some minor condition issues. There are in original wooden frames under glass. There is writing on one of them "By my father in low Charles R. Gruppe. Dimensions: The smaller frame is 9" x 11-1/4" and the drawing is 3-1/2 x 6. The second one frame is 10" x 12-1/2" and the drawing is 4-1/4' x 7". The third and fourth frames are 10-14/2" x 13-12 and the drawings are; 5" x 7-3/4". Charles Paul Gruppé (3 September 1860, Picton, Ontario - 30 September 1940, New York City)[ was an American painter. Between 1897 and 1913, Gruppé lived in the Netherlands, where he painted with the Hague School of art and acted as a dealer for Dutch painters in the US. He, his wife Helen and their children returned permanently to America in 1913 ahead ofWorld War I. All their children became artists including Emile Albert Gruppé (1896-1978) P. Gruppe died in Rockport, Massachusetts, on September 30, 1940 at his studio. He was 80 and had been painting in Rockport for 15 years, along with wintering in his New York studio. His son, the master American painter Emile Gruppe (one of four who all went into the arts) died in 1978 at 78. Until 1929, the two Gruppes, father and son shared a studio on Bearskin Neck in Rockport. Then, in 1929, Emile decided make his own fortune and moved to nearby Gloucester where he purchased an old school house on Rocky Neck to use as a live-in studio. Emile painted in the Rockport area for 53 years, wintering in Florida and in Jeffersonville, Vermont, and building an impressive career that went even beyond his father's greatness. Then there are two grandchildren working today as active living painters, which tell you that the legacy of Charles P. Gruppe was to painting itself. Despite a stern European visage, Charles Gruppe was said to have a sunny and optimistic disposition. He had little formal education and no visible advantages in his early youth. What he did have was a strong love of painting which seemed inborn to him, and he achieved success as a painter, first in Holland and then in America. It is important to note that Charles, the father, had already built a significant career in Holland, before coming to America just before WWI, when the family also added the accent to the Germanic Gruppe which became Gruppe'. He was born in Picton, Canada, September 3, 1860, and at ten, moved with his family to Rochester, N.Y., after the death of his father. Interested in painting from an early age, he worked in a sign shop to provide family support. At twenty-one, he sailed steerage to Europe, settling in Holland, after travel in Germany, and built a home and studio in the little fishing village of Katwyk ann Zee and painted much of his European work in the vicinity of that town. While in Holland, his skill at subtle coloration and careful draftsmanship became so identified with the Dutch School of painting that he was elected to the exclusive Pulchre Studio in the Hague, something highly unique for an American. Gruppe spent over twenty years in Holland, becoming a distinguished artist and ultimately being patronized by the royalty of Europe. He was honored with numerous awards and medals, including gold medals at Paris and Rouen, and also at the World's Fair in St. Louis in 1903. Gruppe' returned to America, not to Rochester but to New York City, where he took an apartment/studio at Carnegie Hall. There he painted and supervised Emile's (born in Rochester) education as a painter and mixed with fellow artists as a member of the Salmagundi Club, where he was known as Clever Dutch. The story is that in 1925, after seeing an exhibition in New York that featured the beautiful winter harbor scenes of Gloucester by Frederick Mulhaupt, the Gruppeâ€™ father and son team headed to Cape Ann, to see for themselves. "Mulhaupt got the smell of Gloucester on canvas," Emile had said, and he and his father remained. Charles Gruppe's paintings can be found in the best collections of Europe and America, but whether Emile ever got the better of him is a difficult question rooted in taste. While Emile was a superb colorist with an impressionistic style, we prefer Gruppe Sr., who has the advantage of his son when it comes to being in the Smithsonian. The American masters Frank Duveneck, Merritt Chase and Twachtman were all in Munich at various times between 1874 and 1876, even establishing the American Artists of Munich club. Gruppe' Sr., who was there later, was also clearly influenced by the Munich landscape style, with its silver-grey skies, and the same treatment is at work in the Dutch school of his time. But in America, the Munich influence worked against Gruppe Sr. in Rockport and Gloucester. It was his son Emile's work that captured the colors of the American scene with a superior sense of their interplay. Clearly a comparison, given the same harbor subjects, shows Gruppe' Sr. with an older, less impressionistic sense of light.Thank you for looking and I hope you can see my other items too!LOW STARTING PRICE AND NO RESERVESome light/flash reflections are seen in our picturehowever this painting is in a good condition.Payments made by PayPal, your item will be shipped within 1 day.Payment should be made within 3 days of auction ending.Shipping and Handling $30Treasurecorner packs and ships professionallyI will appreciate your positive feedback. After a buyer leaves me feedback, I will leave one too.I WILL COMBINE SHIPPING ON MULTIPLE ITEMS. read more

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