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For collectors searching landscape oil painting, California Meadow is a dependable choice. Painted in layered oils on canvas after Granville Redmond, this elegant work reads equally well as classic canvas wall art and as a thoughtful housewarming gift.
circa 1925-30
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm.)
Private collection.
Painters had been settling in California since the second half of the nineteenth century but it was not until the early part of the twentieth century that the identity of California painting firmly defined itself as a major movement in the history of American art. Critic John Ruskin had earlier challenged artists to describe nature in ideal terms of careful observation and accurate description and the artists of California responded by depicting their surrounding landscape en plein air. The distinctive topography and unique colors of the California scenery immediately inspired artists and impelled them to work directly from nature as demonstrated by the European Impressionists of a previous generation.
Granville Redmond was a leader of this new school of California Impressionism and like many of his contemporaries carried with him a sensitivity to this new style of painting grounded in formal academic training received back East and in Europe. Redmond was raised in Northern California and despite an early bout with scarlet fever that left him deaf, he quickly demonstrated an affinity for fine art and received a scholarship to study abroad at the Academie Julian. Redmond returned to California in 1898 and settled in Los Angeles where his more European tonalist style of painting soon developed into a brighter palette that was immediately inspired by the exceptional northern and southern California landscape.
Granville Redmond's depictions of blooming poppy fields are among the artist's most sought after subjects. Glorious hillsides dotted with bold orange and yellow blooming poppies set against cooler green meadows and towering hills, are at once realistic views of the California spring as well as confident personal expressions from the leader of the region's plein-air movement. The artist's bold palette and expansive subjects quickly garnered praise from new patrons and established Redmond in an important place in the broader Calfiornia artistic community. Redmond even formed a close friendship with Charlie Chaplin and helped the actor to perfect his pantomime technique, allowing Redmond to appear in a number of Chaplin's films.
"Redmond, who had a distinctive style, at times somewhat akin to the pointillism produced by certain of the French Impressionists, followed the imperative of a deep personal philosophy. He felt that the artist should approach painting with a positive, untroubled state of mind, knowing clearly what he wished to express and striving to put his soul into each work." (R.L. Westphal, Plein Air Painters of California: The Southland, Irvine, California, 1988, p. 93) The purity of approach and confident vision are clearly evident in California Meadow.
The landscape subject is rebuilt stroke by stroke in oil, giving the finished canvas the depth expected of elegant oil painting wall decor.
Each canvas is painted entirely by hand with professional oil paints on artist-grade cotton canvas. No printing, giclée, or digital imaging is used at any stage, so the surface keeps the slight relief and color variation of real brushwork.
This landscape oil painting wall decor is equally at home in a residence, a boutique hotel, or a professional office. Its elegant character makes it a safe, distinctive gift for anyone furnishing a hallway.
Order California Meadow as a hand painted oil painting on canvas and add lasting elegant character to your hallway. Custom sizes, a digital proof before dispatch, and secure worldwide shipping are included.
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 20 X 24 in | $58.48 |
| 24 X 36 in | $91.98 |
| 30 X 40 in | $123.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $176.98 |
| 48 X 72 in | $329.48 |
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