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W.A.Cheever (1907-1986) Chaplin's Sawmill,Boxford, MA browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art:Paintings:Watercolor: Pre 1950: item # 385653 Please refer to our stock # 2526 when inquiring.
Raymond Agler Fine Arts 16 Pleasant Street Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930 978-281-5048 $2500. |
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| Watercolor on paper, 14 x 20 inches, plus mat and frame, signed "Cheever '49 lower right. Abbott Cheever's long career in art began at the age of 12. At 18, he received his first major commission, a cover for "National Sportsman." For most of his career he taught at the Boston Museum School and Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. Principally for his own pleasure, he created a small body of exceptional watercolor landscapes depicting the fast-disappearing rurality of Essex County. A 1966 Christian Science Monitor article discussing a related work, "Easter", now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, states: "A deep sense of design distinguishes this canvas...he wills the pattern of his subject to a unity of swirling branches, curling smoke and rolling hillside, to engender a feeling of movement, and a memory of the gusts and eddies of the fresh winds of Spring. Like the Englishman Blake and the American Ryder, he sees what he wants to see, and then adds to the specific his own individual quality of vivid imagination." "Chaplin's Sawmill" holds its own in the company of the best of American 20th century watercolors. | ||
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