Connecticut Winter

 

Ernest Fiene

  1894 - 1965 (biography)

1934  

lithograph 

10 x 14" image 

pencil, lower right 

30 of 70  

titled and editioned, dedicated "To Edith G. Halpert affectionately" 

Fiene catalogue raisonne entry 72 

antique-white wove 

published 

artist 

ERRE130 

SOLD

From the estate of Stefan Hirsch and Elsa Rogo One of the first prints done after he moved to Southbury, CT and before the editions published by AAA. Edith Halpert was dirctor of the Downtown Gallery.in New York. Reproduced in: Art Digest, March 15, 1935; Esquire, June, 1938, p. 58. In 1933 Fiene established a country residence in Southbury, Connecticut and the surrounding countryside became the subject for many paintings and prints including this lithograph New York Times art critic Edward Alden Jewell writes on December 9, 1934, "It may be doubted whether he has produced from the stone anything more altogether admirable than this spacious and exquisite modulated landscape, imaginatively wrought from the point of view of design, and so full of color." (Presumably Jewell uses "color" metaphorically here.) (As quoted in Handbook of the American Artists Group 31) Many impressions of this print bear, on the reverse, one or more of the stamps of the Downtown Gallery. The BMA impression bears, on the reverse, the Cone Collection stamp -- the name "Cone" in light green ink. Related Works: A painting, "Winter Evening, Connecticut" with a very similar composition to Connecticut Winter is illustrated in Art Digest, March 1, 1934, p. 1 (whereabouts unknown). A number of other oils with compositional features similar to this lithograph, were done in the mid to late 1930's, including the work illustrated below.