Vintage Carl Schmalz Jr Maine Boat Harbor Modernist Painting - Bowdoin & Amherst

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This is just a great original piece. Long ago I had a client who had a small collection of Carl … more This is just a great original piece. Long ago I had a client who had a small collection of Carl Schmalz Jr paintings that I always thought were excellent. That is the only place I had ever seen the artist's work until I got a chance to purchase this painting. For those not familiar with the artist, I have included his biography below. This is a wonderful early work by the artist. Done in his first year as a professor at Bowdoin, I am guessing this is a wonderful scene of boats in a Maine Cove. Watercolor and gouache on paper with the image measuring 14 x 21 inches. Signed and dated lower left. Painting is in outstanding as painted condition. Really completely unfaded. Matte looks to be archival but not sure. Original period wood frame is complimentary and ready to hang. Really a great presentation of a wonderful painting. Frame measures 22 1/2 x 29 inches.

For those not familiar with the artist, his biography from askart reads: "Carl N. Schmalz Jr., an artist and art historian who taught for many decades at Bowdoin College and Amherst College and a CAA member since 1951, died February 22, 2013. He was 86 years old. Born in 1926 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Schmalz was the son of the late Carl N. Schmalz and Esther (Fowler) Schmalz of Belmont, Massachusetts. he earned AB, AM, and PhD degrees in fine arts from Harvard University and was later awarded an honorary degree by Amherst College. He studied watercolor painting with Eliot O'Hara in 1943-44 and began a long teaching career while instructing at the O'Hara School at Goose Rocks Beach in 1946-47. As assistant professor at Bowdoin College from 1952 to 1962, he taught both the history and practice of art, while serving simultaneously as curator and ultimately as associate director of the Walker Art Museum (now the Bowdoin College Museum of Art). He moved to Amherst in 1962 and was made full professor seven years later. less