Impressionism

Johann Berthelsen (1883-1972) American, European

Snow scene of the Brooklyn Bridge

Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 20” x 16”
Frame Size: 26” x 22”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $9500

Biography/Statement

Johann Berthelsen painted landscapes of New York City  ”poetic” by contemporary critics.  Ironically though, it was music not art, to which Berthelsen originally aspired to.

A native of Copenhagen, Denmark, Berthelsen’s family immigrated to the United States in 1890.  When he was 18, Berthelsen studied music and voice for four years at the Chicago Musical College.  Following this graduation, he toured the United Slates and Canada as lead baritone for the Grand Opera Company, after which he taught voice, first at his alma mater and then at the Indianapolis Conservatory or Music.  In 1920, Berthelsen opened a private studio in New York City where he gave voice lessons.

Although he devoted most of his time to singing and music, Berthelsen painted first for his own pleasure.  Berthelsen initially established his artistic reputation with his work in pastels.  Working with small canvases, he found inspiration in New York’s Central Park, rendering this subject most effectively in its seasonal transformations.

He painted similar scenes in and of Chicago, and they also met with critical and popular acclaim.  Having achieved success as a pastelist, Berthelsen turned his attention to oils. He returned to the fundamentals of drawing in order to discover a technique appropriate to the medium.  Berthelsen used a heavy impasto to almost palpably render his landscapes and his city and park snowscapes.  Berthelsen also painted still-lives. Unlike his landscapes, these works again on small canvases-are clearly defined, with his colors ranging from bright to low key.

Berthelsen died in 1972.

 

Source: Roughton Galleries

Artist Profile Page: Berthelsen, Johann / Categories: Impressionism

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Ryan Schroeder (N/A) Contemporary, American

"Life Eternal" - A chapel in Troy, NY

Medium: Oil on Board
Image Size: 12” x 12”
Frame Size: 16” x 16”
Price: $2800

Biography/Statement

Artist Statement: My work is about engaging reality, including its abject elements. Responding to the impressions made during my encounter with such a place I seek to engage and examine not only its physical characteristics but my subjective response to witnessing them. I am interested in the idea of subtraction; the removal of material things from a place, or the removal of individuals from their dwellings. Using dilapidated interiors as a tableau, I seek to challenge the parameters of taste. In these works, I consider where abstraction and representation meet. I think of these disheveled domestic spaces psychological echo chambers. These paintings are relics whose surfaces have been distressed in a manner that parallels the nature of the external object to which they are referring.

Grants, Lectures, Publications, Honors, and Residencies

2017-2018

• Artist Talk at McLanahan Gallery. Penn State. Altoona, PA
• NYSCA/NYFA Artist As Entrepreneur Program at The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes/ Corning Museum of Glass
• Museum Insel Hombroich: Guest Artist. Stiftung Insel Hombroich. Neuss, Germany (January-March)
• Fulbright Commission International Leadership Conference. Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität. Munich, Germany
• MICA Profile: Interview with Yam Chew
• Fulbright Artist Grant. Düsseldorf, Germany
• Guttenberg Arts: Fellowship. Space and Time Artist Residency (STAR). Guttenberg, NJ

2016

• Museum Insel Hombroich: Guest Artist. Stiftung Insel Hombroich. Neuss, Germany (August-October)
• Woven Tale Press: Spotlight Vol. IV #10. Relics That Reflect Reality. Interview with Emily Jaeger, Published December 12, 2016
• Or Does It Explode Magazine. Ryan Schroeder: A Conversation About Decay, Neglect, and What It Means to Be Forgotten. Interview with Tasha Mathew. Published June 4, 2016.

2015

• Elizabeth Greenshields Grant
• BMoreArt Feature Story: Silent Interiors. Review of Things Forgotten, written by Matt Klos.

2014

• Shanghai University: Resident Artist. Shanghai, China
• Conducted lecture on Edwin Dickinson. New York Academy of Art. NY

2013

• Contemporary Art Center, Artist Residency. Troy, NY
• Curated exhibition, A Hint of Mint. Troy, NY.
• Paintings published in Jet Fuel Review, Lewis University’s online literary journal, 2012 2012
• Vermont Studio Center: Artist Residency. Johnson, VT

Exhibitions

2018

• Solo: Changed Places. Ivyside Juried Exhibition. McLanahan Gallery. Penn State. Altoona, PA
• Solo: Residue of a Lived Experience. Doris Ulmann Galleries. Berea College. Berea, KY
• The Nartcan Exhibit. (Traveling Exhibition). University of Rochester, SUNY Geneseo, University at Buffalo
• Mandarin Oriental: Real Men. Juried by Brooke Shields and David Kratz
• Massephase. SPRINK, Düsseldorf, Germany
• Gleich Frucht Böden Voll Epischter Saat. Haus der Kunst Enniger. Münster, Germany

2017

• Guttenberg Arts Foundation STAR Fellowship Exhibition. Guttenberg, NJ
• Unnoticed: Recent Works by Ryan Schroeder and Jeff Feld. Curated by Alma Egger. Fresh Window Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• Behind Narrative+Emerging Artists: Jennifer Young, Nick Gebhart, Thurston
• Belmer, Bruno Perillo, Marshall Jones and Ryan M Schroeder. Curated by Diego Ponce. One Art Space & Daniel Giella, New York, NY
• Tell Yourselves Why You Were There New Work by Ryan Schroeder and Mila Rochenner. 326 Gallery, New York, NY
• Emerging Artists. Art Mora, Curated by JeongHyun Park, and Sunny Shin. New York, NY

2016

• Debitfair (Digital Exhibition; part of Whitney Biennial). Whitney Museum, New York, NY
• Tenth Annual Summer Exhibition. Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
• Two. ARTROOM, Fort Worth, TX
• 75th Regional Art Exhibition. Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
• Art for Haiti. Saint Rock Haiti Foundation Fundraiser. ArtHelix Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2015

• Things Forgotten: Paintings by Ryan Schroeder and Andy Karnes. Galerie Françoise, Baltimore, MD
• 9th Annual Summer Exhibition. Curated by Leslie Dill, Matthew Flowers, and Martha Schwendener. Flowers Gallery, New York, NY

2014

• Forgotten Places, Richard Harrington, Matt Klos, and Ryan Schroeder. Oxford Gallery, Rochester, NY
• Mutual Interest No.3. Ryan Schroeder, Dana Kotler, Tamalin Baumgarten and Arc Niles. Fine Arts College of Shanghai University. Shanghai, China
• Artist­-in­-Residence, China, 105 & 111 Galleries, New York Academy of Art. New York, NY

Artist Profile Page: Schroeder, Ryan / Categories: Illustration, Impressionism, Modernism, Regionalist (Urban)

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Alexander Bower (1875-1952) American

View of Portland Harbor, Maine

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 34” x 27”
Frame Size: 44” x 37”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $16500

Biography/Statement

An American Impressionist, Bower was born in New York, studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and was living with his wife in Cliff Island, Maine by 1914. Despite his urban upbringing, the coast and the sea fascinated Bower. A large portion of his paintings are seascapes, particularly scenes depicting the coast of Cape Elizabeth and Cliff Island, Maine.

Bower was a member of the Salmagundi Club, the Philadelphia Watercolor Club, and the Boston Society of Watercolor Painters, as well as being an associate member of the National Academy of Design.

He exhibited at the Carnegie Institute, the National Academy of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.

His works are in the collection of the Springfield Art Museum, the Butler Art Institute, the Sweat Memorial Art Museum, the Portland Museum of Art, and the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine.

Bower was not only a painter but also the Director of the Sweat Memorial Art Museum and Director of the School of Fine and Applied Art (both in Portland, Maine), a trustee at Westbrook College in Portland, Maine, and an art instructor at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

Artist Profile Page: Bower, Alexander / Categories: Impressionism, Marine / Seascape

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Peter Bela Mayer (1888-1954) American, European

A View Of Eastport, Maine

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 36” x 40”
Frame Size: 44” x 48”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $9500

Biography/Statement

Bela Mayer, landscape painter and textile designer, was born in Loeche, Hungary, 1887.  It is not known when he immigrated to the United States; however he enrolled at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1908.  For the next seven years he would study art there under the tutelage of C. Y. Turner, Ivan Olinsky and E. Ward.

After finishing his schooling, Mayer moved to Long Island, and would stay in the New England area all of his life.  He visited Gloucester and other locations on Cape Anne, Massachusetts.

Sometime during the 1940s, Bela Mayer added the Peter to his name in order to distance himself from female artists with his same first name.  Though he changed his name, his belief that “balance is the most important element in a painting” never wavered; he was quoted saying this at a showing of his work in Roslyn, New Jersey in 1984.

His Impressionist paintings combine the organic lines of nature perfectly with the more structural and geometric lines of man in a non-abrasive, harmonious manner.  He spent his time outdoors painting towns along the Hudson and around his home in Long Island.

Artist Profile Page: Mayer, Peter Bela / Categories: Impressionism, Landscape

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Emile Albert Gruppe (1896-1978) American

Painted near Woodstock, New York. Circa 1935

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 30” x 36”
Frame Size: 40” x 46”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Born in Rochester, New York, Emile Gruppe became a renowned New England landscape and marine painter. Although he is best known for his variety of Impressionistic landscapes, he also painted figures and portraits. His modern style was largely inherited from French Impressionist Claude Monet. “Lily Pads,” date and location unknown, one of Gruppes landscapes, attests to Monets influence and is similar to some of the paintings in Monets “Water Lily” series.

He was the son of landscape artist Charles Paul Gruppe, and was born in 1896 in Rochester, New York. He had a very strong art background. In addition to being raised by an artistic father, he was also educated in art at The Hague in the Netherlands and in New York City at the National Academy of Design and The Arts Students League. He also received instruction from artists George Bridgeman, Charles Chapman, Richard Miller and John F. Carlson, with whom he would later founded, in 1942, the Gruppe Summer School in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He made his permanent studio in Gloucester.

His artistic career had begun in 1915, but was briefly interrupted in 1917 when he spent a year in the United States Navy.

Gruppes prolific career brought him many awards and memberships. His popular painting “Winter, Vermont,” date and location unknown, won the Richard Mitton Award at the Jordan Marsh Exhibition in Boston in 1943.

Credit: “American Art Analog” by Michael David Zellman. Vol. III, p. 911

Artist Profile Page: Gruppe, Emile Albert / Categories: Impressionism, Landscape

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Emile Albert Gruppe (1896-1978) American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 36” x 30”
Frame Size: 46” x 40”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Born in Rochester, New York, Emile Gruppe became a renowned New England landscape and marine painter. Although he is best known for his variety of Impressionistic landscapes, he also painted figures and portraits. His modern style was largely inherited from French Impressionist Claude Monet. “Lily Pads,” date and location unknown, one of Gruppes landscapes, attests to Monets influence and is similar to some of the paintings in Monets “Water Lily” series.

He was the son of landscape artist Charles Paul Gruppe, and was born in 1896 in Rochester, New York. He had a very strong art background. In addition to being raised by an artistic father, he was also educated in art at The Hague in the Netherlands and in New York City at the National Academy of Design and The Arts Students League. He also received instruction from artists George Bridgeman, Charles Chapman, Richard Miller and John F. Carlson, with whom he would later founded, in 1942, the Gruppe Summer School in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He made his permanent studio in Gloucester.

His artistic career had begun in 1915, but was briefly interrupted in 1917 when he spent a year in the United States Navy.

Gruppes prolific career brought him many awards and memberships. His popular painting “Winter, Vermont,” date and location unknown, won the Richard Mitton Award at the Jordan Marsh Exhibition in Boston in 1943.

Credit: “American Art Analog” by Michael David Zellman. Vol. III, p. 911

Artist Profile Page: Gruppe, Emile Albert / Categories: Impressionism, Landscape

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William Lester Stevens (1888-1969) American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 32” x 40”
Frame Size: 38” x 46”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Born in Rockport, Massachusetts, impressionist painter William Stevens lived and worked in the area for many years. In the later part of his life, he moved to Conway, Massachusetts.

His first art study was with Parker Perkins, and then he attended the Boston Museum School as a student of Edmund Tarbell, Frank Benson, Philip Hale and William Paxton.  He taught at Princeton and Boston Universities, and by 1964 had won more awards than any other living artist.

Stevens, along with his friend Aldro Hibbard, was instrumental in organizing the Rockport Art Association in 1921 with the goal of making art more accessible to common people. Later in his life Stevens also organized the Conway Festival of the Hills and the Berkshire Arts Festival.

Stevens was a member of the Boston School, traditionalists and impressionists, opposed to abstraction in art.  The subject matter was usually landscape, views of everyday life, and portraits.  William Lester Stevens died on June 10, 1969.

Source:
American Art Review, October 2003

Artist Profile Page: Stevens, William Lester / Categories: Impressionism, Landscape

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