Clearing Land in Florida
Type:Painting
Year:1915
Size:16.00" x 12.00" x 1.50"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
Titled and dated verso. Excellent condition. Provenance: Richard Norton Gallery, Chicago
Frank Peyraud ART FOR SALE
1858 Bulle, Switzerland - 1948. Known for: Tree and seasonal landscape painting.
A hard-working fine-art painter, muralist and panoramist, Frank Peyraud earned a lasting reputation for rural landscapes, especially snowscenes in broadly defined forms and glowing colors. Excepting... Read full biography
A hard-working fine-art painter, muralist and panoramist, Frank Peyraud earned a lasting reputation for rural landscapes, especially snowscenes in broadly defined forms and glowing colors. Excepting a trip from 1921 to 1923 to Italy and Switzerland, he was based in Chicago, where a Registrar of the... Read full biography
A hard-working fine-art painter, muralist and panoramist, Frank Peyraud earned a lasting reputation for rural landscapes, especially snowscenes in broadly defined forms and glowing colors. Excepting a trip from 1921 to 1923 to Italy and Switzerland, he was based in Chicago, where a Registrar of the Chicago Art Institute in a materials for a traveling exhibition, described him as the "dean of Chicago landscape artists." (Richter) . Peyraud was one of the first American painters to focus on... Read full biography
A hard-working fine-art painter, muralist and panoramist, Frank Peyraud earned a lasting reputation for rural landscapes, especially snowscenes in broadly defined forms and glowing colors. Excepting a trip from 1921 to 1923 to Italy and Switzerland, he was based in Chicago, where a Registrar of the Chicago Art Institute in a materials for a traveling exhibition, described him as the "dean of Chicago landscape artists." (Richter) . Peyraud was one of the first American painters to focus on Midwestern landscape, and did many river and farm scenes including his signature snowscapes. Many of his paintings reflected Impressionism, an abstract style executed with rapid technique and broken brush strokes brought over from France towards the end... Read full biography
A hard-working fine-art painter, muralist and panoramist, Frank Peyraud earned a lasting reputation for rural landscapes, especially snowscenes in broadly defined forms and glowing colors. Excepting a trip from 1921 to 1923 to Italy and Switzerland, he was based in Chicago, where a Registrar of the Chicago Art Institute in a materials for a traveling exhibition, described him as the "dean of Chicago landscape artists." (Richter) . Peyraud was one of the first American painters to focus on Midwestern landscape, and did many river and farm scenes including his signature snowscapes. Many of his paintings reflected Impressionism, an abstract style executed with rapid technique and broken brush strokes brought over from France towards the end of the 19th Century. Impressionism received much attention in Chicago in some of the artwork exhibited at the 1893 Expo... Read full biography
Frank Peyraud - Art for Sale (2 available)
Berkshires Landscape
Type:Painting
Year:1915
Size:28.00" x 34.00" x 2.38"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
Excellent condition. A superb example of his work! Not titled and no label, but possibly "In the Berkshires" that was exhibited in 1915 at the Art Institute of Chicago. Original 5" molding Newcomb-Macklin frame, but a spot with damaged gilding is noted.