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THBAiden Lassell Ripley (1896-1969), Getting Ready
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Aiden Lassell Ripley (1896-1969)
Getting Ready, 1940
signed and dated "A. Lassell Ripley 1940" lower left
watercolor, 19 3/4 by 29 3/4 in.
"Getting Ready Field Sketch"
signed "A. Lassell Ripley" lower right
pencil on paper, 6 by 9 3/4 in.
inscribed "General Scene" lower left
"Word spread in the North that there was a place to the south of them-and trains ran there- where the air was fragrant with balsam; where the Cherokee roses often bloomed even in December; where an icicle was so rare you almost welcomed it; and where, also, the bobwhite whistled from every hedgerow; and where, if you crept out carefully in the early morning, you could hear the put-put-put of the turkey gobbler as he lorded it over his hens." —Thomas C. Chubb, "The History of the Georgia-Florida Field Trials Club," 1966By the 1930s and 1940s, Aiden Lassell Ripley had established himself as the most sought-after painter of Southern plantation scenes. Business executives and political leaders traveled to estates during the dreary Northern winters to hunt for wild turkey and quail. Plantation owners and their guests commissioned Ripley to paint family members while hunting.
Just a few of the luminaries that Ripley painted were the former President Dwight Eisenhower hunting at the plantation of his former Secretary of the Treasury, George M. Humphrey. He also produced a hunting portrait of Mrs. Walter Evans Edge, the wife of the former New Jersey senator. Ripley also visited and painted greeting cards for Dwight F. Davis, the Assistant Secretary of War under President Calvin Coolidge and founder of the tennis world's prestigious Davis Cup.
An important Ripley work passed down through the Webb family of Shelburne Museum fame, "Getting Ready" has all the characteristics of a classic Southern quail hunting scene. The viewer is drawn in as the two pointers are locked onto a covey of quail. A handler steadies the horses as the hunters dismount, unsheathe their side by sides, and load up in preparation of the flush.
Provenance: (Probably) Mr. and Mrs. Harry Havemeyer Webb, Shelburne, Vermont
Kate Webb Harris, Shelburne, Vermont, by descent
Alex Chester Collection
Literature: Stephen O'Brien Jr. and Julie Carlson Wildfeuer, "The Art of Aiden Lassell Ripley," Boston, MA, 2009, p. 171.Condition
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