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Composition for 'Sunset in the Foothills' - William Herbert Dunton - Canvas Oil Painting brings gallery-caliber art into everyday spaces. This abstract oil painting is a 100% hand painted oil painting on canvas, created for buyers who want genuine refined canvas wall art instead of a mass-produced poster or paper print.
Oil on canvas
Private Collection, Southern California.
According to Michael Grauer, Sunset in the Foothills and the larger version of it at the Stark Museum of Art in Orange, Texas, may be one of Dunton’s last great paintings. As Grauer wrote in the 1991 exhibition catalogue, W. Herbert Dunton: A Retrospective, which included this version of Sunset: “[His] major portraits [of the late 1920s] notwithstanding, stylistically Dunton's work most resembles Grant Wood's (or vice versa) in the reduction of shape to essential geometric forms and in the repetition of those forms in rhythmic decorative patterns. Works such as Sunset in the Foothills ... typify Dunton's application of this aesthetic to his paintings.” Dunton exhibited Sunset in the Foothills at the same annual exhibition of American paintings and sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago in October 1930 where Wood unveiled his most famous painting, American Gothic.
After he became head of the Taos fish and game conservation group in the late ‘teens, and his health began to fail in the late 1920s, Dunton preferred to “dry” hunt, and only “took” big game, and small landscape sketches, with palette and brush, pencil and paper. Many of these landscape sketches, usually no bigger than 8 x 10 inches, are by far his most decorative and abstract works. Through pure serendipity, I recently discovered his field sketch for Sunset in the Foothills in a private collection. This decorative abstraction translated directly to both versions of Sunset in the Foothills
As gallery wall art, the piece pairs naturally with other refined wall art and with warm neutrals, timber, and soft natural light.
Materials matter for refined wall decor. That is why this piece is built on artist-grade canvas with lightfast oil colors, applied by hand rather than output from a printer, and sealed for long-term display.
Style it over a fireplace, behind a reading chair, or along a staircase. Wherever it goes, this refined oil painting wall decor adds the layered color that only a hand painted canvas provides.
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| Size | Price |
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| 20 X 24 in | $77.98 |
| 24 X 36 in | $120.48 |
| 30 X 40 in | $166.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $221.48 |
| 48 X 72 in | $430.48 |
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