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THBAiden Lassell Ripley (1896-1969) Grouse on a Hard Pine
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Hingham, MA 02043
United States
Copley Fine Art Auctions is the world's leading American sporting art auction company. Located in Hingham, MA, Copley specializes in antique decoys and 19th- and 20th-century American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Principal Stephen O'Brien Jr., a fourth-generation sportsman with a refined colle...Read more
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Aiden Lassell Ripley (1896-1969) Grouse on a Hard Pine
signed "A. Lassell Ripley ©" lower right
oil on canvas, 27 by 40 in.
"When I chose the dust jacket cover for "The Art of Aiden Lassell Ripley" I picked one of his grouse watercolors. Perhaps no other artist before Ripley came on the sporting art scene, nor any artist since, has more accurately captured these thundering ghosts of the covers. "Grouse on a Hard Pine" is a classic Ripley in every sense with a perfectly rendered trio of birds, thoughtful composition, and intricate treatment of the pines."
-Stephen B. O'Brien, Jr.
Co-author, "The Art of Aiden Lassell Ripley"
Born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, Aiden Lassell Ripley was the son of a Boston Symphony Orchestra musician. From an early age he excelled at music, but he soon discovered a deeper interest in painting. By his mid-teens, Ripley was committed to a career in art, commuting into Boston to take classes. After returning from service in World War I, he attended the Boston Museum School where he studied with the country's top artists, including Philip Leslie Hale (1865-1934) and Frank W. Benson (1862-1951).
Ripley was awarded a Paige Traveling Fellowship to study in Europe. While abroad, he painted watercolors "en plein air" in North Africa, France, and Holland. Upon his return in 1925, he was elected to the prestigious Guild of Boston Artists. His work focused on the New England countryside as well as depictions of city life and railroad commuting scenes. The Great Depression, however, limited the sales potential for these works. Following a successful one-man show of his sporting art in 1930 Ripley decided to change his tack and specialize in hunting, fishing, and outdoor scenes as subjects.
Along with his contemporary, Ogden Pleissner (1905-1983), Ripley exemplified the life of a successful sporting artist. Collectors of Ripley’s sporting art endorsed his numerous trips to the salmon rivers of New Brunswick and the quail plantations of Georgia, where the artist indulged his passion for hunting and fishing while recording material he would use in his art.
Ripley’s technique and style changed over the course of his career. While the loose Impressionism of the Museum School marks his early work, his later work is progressively tighter, following a trend in American Realism. Ripley was an expert watercolorist as well as a brilliant draftsman, with an outstanding ability to render natural light. His recognition was abundant. Among his many awards, Ripley was honored with election into the National Academy of Design and served as president of the Guild of Boston Artists for the ten years preceding his death.
His works now hang in the collections of the Boston Public Library, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Atlanta Artists Association.
Provenance: Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Collection, acquired from Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, NH, 8/18/07, lot 733
Literature: Stephen B. O'Brien, Jr. and Julie Carlson Wildfeuer, "The Art of Aiden Lassell Ripley," Boston, MA, 2009, p. 131, plate 119, illustrated.Condition
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