Exhibited, Signed, Framed Hensche Painting, 1950s

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  Henry Hensche (German American, 1899-1992). "Sunlight Still Life" / "Sunlit Landscape" oil on canvas. Ca. 1950s. Signed on lower right. A wonderful composition by Henry Hensche featuring a statue of a nude female with a pot of flowers to the lower left, surrounded by greenery painted in the artist's signature Impressionistic style and exhibited at the Guild of Boston Artists in 1975. Hensche avidly studied Monet and aimed to abide by his keen perception of color or "full color seeing" as he called it. A very special painting by this legendary artist who studied under Charles Hawthorne, founder of the Cape Cod School of Art (est. in Provincetown, 1899) and went on to embrace Hawthorne's in addition to Monet's and William Merritt Chase's colorist approach. Hensche also taught many successful artists in Provincetown, including William Draper, Franz Kline, and Nelson Shanks. Size: 24" L x 20" W (61 cm x 50.8 cm); 36.75" L x 26.875" W (93.3 cm x 68.3 cm) framed.
  
  "As a painter and teacher of consummate skill, Hensche is considered by many in the art world to be an unparalleled colorist - a painter justly deserving the artistic lineage that extends back just two generations to the seminal American impressionist, William Merritt Chase. He has been called an iconoclast, a pioneer, and the late Grand Central Art Galleries of New York named him, 'L'Enfant Terrible de L'Academie'. A teacher for over 60 years, Hensche instilled in his students a profound appreciation for the beauty of nature's light and color. Between 1922 and 1930 Hensche won the Pulitzer Traveling Prize from Columbia University and the Halgarten Award from the National Academy of Design. He has exhibited at The Art Institute of Chicago, The Corcoran, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and has had many other one-man-shows. He is listed in Who's Who in American Art. Some of his students who have gone on to become nationally successful painters are William Draper, Franz Kline, and Nelson Shanks." (Henry Hensche Foundation website)
  
  This painting comes to us from the Estate of William F. Draper, an American artist who studied with Henry Hensche in Cape Cod. Hensche studied at the Art Students League in New York City. By the summer of 1919, he arrived in Provincetown and studied with Charles Webster Hawthorne (American, 1872-1930) at the Cape Cod School of Art (est. 1899). Hensche admired Hawthorne's "color note" approach to painting and even saw this as an advance beyond Claude Monet and William Merritt Chase. "Monet was a painter; he didn't teach. What was needed was a way to put his principles into some kind of teachable form...in the America of that day, William Merritt Chase was the most famous teacher. He taught Hawthorne - and almost everyone else. But, he never really came to grips with the Impressionists' idea. His paintings were really done in tone - in black and white - with Impressionists colors added. He never developed a clear method."
  
  This painting was included in a Hensche exhibition at the Guild of Boston Artists in 1975.
  
  Provenance: The William F. Draper Collection, New York City, USA, acquired via descent from the late William Franklin Draper (1912-2003), an accomplished American artist whose career spanned seven decades. Known as the "Dean of American Portraiture," William Draper was the only artist to paint President John F. Kennedy from life, and his oeuvre includes marvelous landscapes from his world travels, military paintings as he was one of only seventeen Combat Artists in WWII, and portraits of illustrious individuals.
  
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  #152721

  Condition

  Signed on lower right. Exhibition label from Hensche show at Guild of Boston Artists in 1975 on verso. Provincetown, Massachusetts is handwritten on the verso of the canvas; Hensche taught art in Provincetown, and he and his wife kept a home in this famous artist colony until he passed away in 1992. Nice craquelure to the painting as shown. Some long sweeping marks, what appear to be strokes from brushwork over the statue. There are no patches or signs of stabilization/repair on the verso. Slight impressions from the stretchers and minor bends in the canvas on the lower right. Slight staining on canvas verso. Minor age wear to frame, but still perfectly serviceable and wired for suspension.
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