Holliston, MA
Details
- Dimensions
- 27.25ʺW × 1ʺD × 23.25ʺH
- Styles
- Adirondack
- Impressionist
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Art Subjects
- Landscape
- Period
- Mid 20th Century
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Canvas
- Oil Paint
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- White
- Condition Notes
- Excellent as painted condition. Excellent as painted condition. less
- Description
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Probably the nicest herbert steinke (1892-1982) painting you are going to find. A label on the back gives the artist's …
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Probably the nicest herbert steinke (1892-1982) painting you are going to find. A label on the back gives the artist's address in albany which would lead me to believe this is one of his adirondack works. A great post impressionist work that really lets you feel the cold. Oil on canvas board measuring 16 x 20 inches. Signed lower right. In original matching painted frame that is complimentary and really presents this painting wonderfully. Frame measures 27 1/4 x 23 1/4 inches.
For those not familiar with the artist, his biography reads: born in wausau, wisconsin, herbert steinke was a post-impressionist painter whose favorite scenes show farms, lakes and wilderness in the adirondacks and in the catskills, near the noted art colony at woodstock, new york. He lived most of his adult life in albany, new york, where he spent thirty years as teacher and director of art education for the public school system. During these years he also frequently traveled to old lyme, connecticut, to paint and visit his in-laws, who lived there. Before settling in upstate new york, steinke graduated from the chicago academy of fine art in 1923 and earned a bfa in 1925 from the yale university school of fine art, where he studied with eugene savage. He also taught in a high school in new haven, and then returned to the chicago area for a few years. His close friend and mentor, the artist carl werntz (1874 -1944), was the founder and director of the chicago academy of fine arts, and first hired steinke as art instructor. Steinke took on commercial art commissions as well, and served for a time as director of the newman advertising agency in chicago. Steinke exhibited at numerous solo shows and other venues, including the albany institute of history and art, and won many awards during his long career. His style became distinctive for short dashes of bright color, such as purples and greens in a rural stream, with moderate to strong impasto, and his typical signature was "h a steinke". A lifelong educator, he also wrote several articles on teaching which were published in scholastic magazines. less
Holliston, MA
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