Framed William Draper - Poisoned Glen, Ireland - 1970

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  William Franklin Draper (American, 1912-2003). "Poisoned Glen - Mount Errigal - Donegal, Ireland" oil on canvas, 1970. Signed "Wm. F. Draper" on lower right. A breathtaking landscape painting depicting the sweeping valleys of Poisoned Glen at the foot of Mount Errigal in Donegal, Ireland. William Draper's penchant for seductive compositions and his Neo Impressionist brushwork bring this natural wonder - home to The Bearnas Buttress, Ireland’s largest continual rock face coveted by climbers and mountaineers - to life. It is said that once one takes in the views of Poisoned Glen they will remain in one's visual bank for all eternity. So given this most beautiful view, why the name Poisoned Glen? Read the extended description below to learn more. Size: 24.875" W x 19" H (63.2 cm x 48.3 cm); 26.375" W x 20.375" H (67 cm x 51.8 cm) framed
  
  According to the Mounreagh Heritage Centre, "One story is that the wrong translation from Irish to English caused the confusion, and the correct name should be 'Heavenly Glen' (the Irish word for Heaven is neamh and the Irish word for poison is neimhe). Another story is that the King of Tory, Balor, had a gorgeous daughter who he kept closed away in a Tower out of men’s view. However, word of her beauty spread and she was kidnapped and brought to Magheroarty. Balor followed and got her and killed her kidnapper with a giant stone. At the entrance to The Poisoned Glen one such stone stands, and it is said to be the poisoned eye of Balor."
  
  William Draper's career spanned seven decades and his subjects included a portrait of John F. Kennedy that hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. based upon an oil sketch for which the president sat in 1962. Draper was actually the only artist who painted JFK from life. Draper showed at Knoedler, the Graham Gallery, Portraits, Inc., the Far Gallery, The Findlay Galleries (New York, NY) and the Robert C. Vose Galleries (Boston, MA). His work has been included in shows at the National Portrait Gallery and the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), The National Academy of Design (New York, NY), The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, (Boston, MA) the Fogg Art Museum, (one of the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA), the National Gallery, (London), Salon de la Marine (Paris) and in museums in Australia. He also taught at the Art Students League of New York, and received a lifetime achievement award from the Portrait Society of America in 1999.
  
  More on the artist's background: William Franklin Draper was born in Hopedale, Massachusetts on December 24, 1912. A child prodigy, he studied classical piano at Harvard University. He later changed his focus to fine art and studied with Charles Webster Hawthorne and Henry Hensche in Provincetown, Rhode Island. Draper also attended the National Academy of Design in New York and the Cape Cod School of Art in Massachusetts. Then he traveled to Spain and studied with Harry Zimmerman, moved on to France and attended the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere. In 1937, he moved to Boston to study sculpture with George Demetrius and also studied with Jon Corbino in beautiful Rockport, Massachusetts. In 1942, Draper joined the Navy and served as a combat artist when stationed on the Aleutian Islands and in the South Pacific. He observed and painted battle scenes on Bougainville, Guam, Saipan, and other locations, as well as genre scenes of soldiers who were not engaged in combat but rather at work and at play. National Geographic magazine reproduced 25 of his war images in four issues in 1944. In 1945, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. organized a group exhibition of works by five official war artists, including Draper. That same year the Metropolitan Museum of Art included Draper in an exhibition entitled, ''The War Against Japan.'' Draper was also featured in a PBS television show about combat artists entitled, "They Drew Fire" in May of 2000. After the war, Draper opened a studio on Park Avenue in New York City and continued to not only paint, but also play classical and jazz piano.
  
  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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  Condition

  Painting is in overall excellent condition. Signed "Wm. F. Draper" on lower right. There is an old FAR Gallery exhibition label w/ address "746 Madison Avenue, New York City, NY" and title "Poison, Glen Donegal" on the verso. A Draper Estate stamp is on a stretcher on the verso.
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