Rare Original Malcolm Wells Upper Mill 'pond Moon' Brewster Cape Cod Painting

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Original 1996 malcolm wells (1926-2009) upper mill 'pond moon' brewster cape cod painting
this is just a great original piece. … more Original 1996 malcolm wells (1926-2009) upper mill 'pond moon' brewster cape cod painting
this is just a great original piece. This is one of those pieces I am happy to hang on the wall in my office until someone purchases it. If I had space in my home for it, I would be happy to keep it as this a scarce work of one of the more important artists and architects of the 20th century. For those not familiar with the artist, I have included his biography below. In doing research, I have been only able to find a couple of wells' work having come to market in the the last 20 years. One in 2002, and one was on ebay back in 2009. Other than that, I have found an exhibition of his work on the cape but that is about it. Based on the label on the back, I am guessing this was offered at some sort of charity auction. This is really a wonderful original painting view of upper mill pond in brewster ma. Acrylic on wood panel measuring 16 x 16 inches it is really a stunning work. Signed lower right. Painting is in very good condition with just one small rub in the upper right sky of the work. It is unframed as it was created. The artist painted a thin black border around the edge. That border shows some faint loss and chips but really nothing bad at all. Really just a beautiful painting. On the back of the painting the artist titled, signed, and dated it. There is also a taped hang tag that looks like it came from one of those charity auction. Just a wonderful piece.

For those not familiar with the artist, his biography from an art and architecture website reads: " Malcolm Wells, the visionary Pennsylvanian architect, died November 27 at eighty-three, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Wells was considered a crackpot in 1964 when he gave up lucrative commissions for the RCA Corp. and began advocating underground buildings with earth-friendly sod roofs. But he lived long enough to see some of his most radical ideas become standard practice. Widely known as Mac, the Camden native—who grew up in Haddonfield—was a free-spirited idealist with a hermit’s beard who worked for years out of a subterranean office located steps from roaring traffic on Cuthbert Boulevard in Cherry Hill.

When Wells couldn’t persuade clients to participate in his architectural experiments, he turned to writing and teaching to spread his environmental philosophy. Wells, dubbed the Underground Man in newspaper articles, moved in 1978 to Brewster, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, where he completed two more submerged buildings with “green” roofs. Given Wells’s unconventional approach to architecture, he won a surprising number of prominent South Jersey commissions.

Besides his own underground office, which is still in use, his best-known works include a law school for Rutgers University in Camden, RCA’s Moorestown plant, Moorestown’s library and municipal complex, the Scarborough Bridge in Cherry Hill, and the former Cherry Hill Library. The last, which originally featured a rooftop forest that mimicked a Pinelands landscape, was demolished several years ago to make room for a more humdrum structure. Moorestown’s municipal building was badly damaged in a fire in 2007. “It shows how much more conservative these towns become. They would never hire such a visionary today,” said Gregory La Vardera, a Merchantville architect who has documented some of Wells’s buildings. “Every green architect today owes a debt to” Wells, he added in a Flickr post." less