Marlboro Landscape (House in Hills)
Artist
Alfred H. Maurer
(American, 1868 - 1932)
Datec. 1916
MediumOil on gessoed board
Dimensions18 x 21 3/4 in.
ClassificationsOil Painting
Credit LineThe Rita K. Heimann Collection of American Art
Object number2012.48.22
DescriptionAlfred H. Maurer (1868-1932)Marlboro Landscape (House in Hills), ca. 1916
Oil on gessoed board
Bequest of Rita Heimann, 2012.48.22
Alfred Maurer was one of the first Americans to embrace Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and the tenets of European Modernism. Son of Currier & Ives commercial artist Louis Maurer (1832-1932), Alfred Maurer followed in his father's footsteps. In the early years of his career he worked as a lithographer and painted in a realist style. In 1897, however, Maurer sailed for Paris where his style radically evolved thanks to exposure to works by Cezanne, Matisse and other proponents of Modernism at the atelier of Leo and Gertrude Stein, the notable collectors whom he befriended. He committed himself to working in a Fauvist aesthetic, characterized by loose brushstrokes and abstracted yet still recognizable forms.
Maurer remained in France until 1914, when World War I forced his move to New York. Marlboro Landscape, one of the earliest works he completed upon his return, demonstrates his use of heavy, expressive brush strokes of color to create form and capture the sensations of nature.
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