Lot #141 - Samuel Edmund Oppenheim, 1901-1992 (Belarus/USA)
Samuel Edmund Oppenheim, 1901-1992 (Belarus/USA)
Estimate: 400 - 800 £
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Samuel Edmund Oppenheim (1901-1992).
Portrait of a Girl. Mid-20th century.
Oil on canvas, size 61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 inches). Frame dimensions 76 x 64 cm (30 x 25 1/4 inches).
Signed upper left.
Samuel Edmund Oppenheim (1901-1992) occupies a unique place in the history of American painting. A thoroughgoing Impressionist, he was a student of Charles Hawthorne on Cape Cod and Harvey Dunn in New York. Another strong influence was Walter Biggs, the incomparable American illustrator whose freely-brushed watercolour paintings graced most leading magazines in the early decades of the Twentieth Century.
Oppenheim was principally a painter of charming easel pictures, which exude a gracious, mellow poetry. Several motifs recur with frequency in his oeuvre: mother and child in an idyllic landscape, beautiful women posing modestly in a gentle Victorian interior, lush floral still lives, young ballerinas posing in stage costume, decorous nudes in a domestic interior.
But Oppenheim also painted many portraits professionally, strong in characterization and rich in painterly qualities. These masterly portraits, hanging in public and private collections throughout the United States, firmly established his right to be considered among the foremost American portraitists. It was his popular portrait classes at the Art Students League in New York, featuring his electrifying demonstrations, that created his enduring reputation as a teacher.
Portrait of a Girl. Mid-20th century.
Oil on canvas, size 61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 inches). Frame dimensions 76 x 64 cm (30 x 25 1/4 inches).
Signed upper left.
Samuel Edmund Oppenheim (1901-1992) occupies a unique place in the history of American painting. A thoroughgoing Impressionist, he was a student of Charles Hawthorne on Cape Cod and Harvey Dunn in New York. Another strong influence was Walter Biggs, the incomparable American illustrator whose freely-brushed watercolour paintings graced most leading magazines in the early decades of the Twentieth Century.
Oppenheim was principally a painter of charming easel pictures, which exude a gracious, mellow poetry. Several motifs recur with frequency in his oeuvre: mother and child in an idyllic landscape, beautiful women posing modestly in a gentle Victorian interior, lush floral still lives, young ballerinas posing in stage costume, decorous nudes in a domestic interior.
But Oppenheim also painted many portraits professionally, strong in characterization and rich in painterly qualities. These masterly portraits, hanging in public and private collections throughout the United States, firmly established his right to be considered among the foremost American portraitists. It was his popular portrait classes at the Art Students League in New York, featuring his electrifying demonstrations, that created his enduring reputation as a teacher.
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