Emile Gruppe, Mending the Nets Oil Painting

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Jan 28, 2017 - Jan 29, 2017

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  Mending the Nets. Emile Gruppe (1896-1978). Oil on canvas. Signed lower left: "Emile A. Gruppe". Inscribed on stretcher: "38A Mending the Nets by Emile A. Gruppe". 20 x 24 inches. Provenance: private collection, Massachusetts, until 2008 The son of painter Charles Gruppe, Emile Gruppe was born in Rochester, New York, in 1896. In addition to his father's artistic influence, Emile Gruppe studied with George Bridgeman, John F. Carlson, Charles Chapman, Charles Hawthorne, and Richard Miller. He also took classes at the Art Students League in New York and the Académie de la Grand Chaumière in Paris. The majority of Gruppe’s artistic career was divided between painting at Cape Ann, Massachusetts, and in Vermont, Florida, and Portugal. While he best known for his Impressionist harbor scenes and winter landscapes of these places, Gruppe also painted numerous portraits and figural works. In Mending the Nets, Gruppe captured the delicious calm of a sleepy tropical harbor, probably in Florida. Done with the day’s fishing, the fishermen are spending the afternoon on land, tending to their equipment. As the sun shines down on the ramshackle structures that line the docks, one man in a yellow shirt and red cap inspects the large fishing nets heaped on the dock, while another works on his boat on the right. Seagulls glide on the breeze over the distant bay. Gruppe painted the scene with an appealing breadth appropriate to the relaxed mood, and he used reds and purples to indicate deep, warm shadows, as well as strokes of cyan and cobalt blue in the water. Gruppe taught as well as painted, and he founded the Gruppe Summer School in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with his former teacher John F. Carlson in 1942. Gruppe exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1913 to 1920, National Academy of Design from 1915 to 1941, Salmagundi Club from 1916 to 1952, North Shore Art Association from 1922 to 1958, Rockport Art Association from 1925 to 1957, Allied Artists of America from 1934 to 1952, and many other venues. Gruppe was a member of the Salmagundi Club, North Shore Art Association, Gloucester Society of Artists, Rockport Art Association, Allied Artists of America, and numerous other artists’ organizations. His work is found in many public collections, including the De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts; Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; the White House, Washington, D. C.; Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio; San Antonio Museum, Texas; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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