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THBOgden M. Pleissner (1905-1983) Down's Gulch
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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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LiveJul 27, 2017 - Jul 28, 2017
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Ogden M. Pleissner (1905-1983) Down's Gulch
signed "Pleissner" lower right
oil on canvas, 24 by 36 in.
titled on the Crossroads of Sport, New York label and with Sportsman's Edge, Ltd., New York label on back
Donal O’Brien, who is noted as “a close friend of the artist" by Peter Bergh in “The Art of Ogden M. Pleissner,” reflects, "Ogden Pleissner was one of those special friends who added a unique dimension to the lives of those who knew him. You were stretched and expanded when in Ogden's company. As a man and artist, Ogden was the person he wanted to be. He was a natural. He was also an extraordinary blend of things that in most people might seem inconsistent, but in Ogden were balanced and right.
Ogden had great style: he was learned, sophisticated, even elegant, but he could cuss like a trooper and tell the saltiest stories in camp. He was gentle, sometimes shy, but he had a sharp wit and a temper that would come on like a line storm - and be over just as quickly. Ogden was equally at home in the club-rooms of the Century Association or in Sam Webb's Three Islands Camp on the Grand Cascapedia. He could move from a driven grouse butt in Scotland to the ruffed grouse covers of Vermont without breaking stride. He was a man's man and a ladies' man. And whatever he did, he did easily, with grace and style and dignity and in the most modest and natural manner.
Ogden brightened things up - when he was around things were a little sharper and a little clearer. One of my hunting partners likes to say, 'Only a man who has owned a really great gun-dog knows what one is, and what he'll someday be missing. Some voids never get filled.' Ogden Pleissner's many friends will know what that fellow was talking about."
Often compared to the celebrated watercolor "Blue Boat on the St. Anne," Down's Gulch, an oil, is one of Pleissner's most prized and revered paintings.
In this impressive work Pleissner successfully tackles the challenges of painting an on-the-water action scene, in bright sunlight, rewarding the artist and viewers with one of the sport's most vivid depictions of a dynamic moment.
This original oil was selected by the Angler's Club of New York for its 75th Anniversary limited edition print, alternatively titled "The Run Downstream".
A related watercolor, also titled "Down's Gulch", sold at Christie's in December of 2005 for $84,000. The catalog entry notes, it "depicts Mrs. Guy Cary playing a salmon weighing 28 pounds from the Restigouche River in New Brunswick, Canada, on June 27, 1936."
Provenance: Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Collection
Literature: Peter M. Bergh, "The Art of Ogden M. Pleissner," Boston, MA, 1983, p. 73, p. 109, print illustrated.Condition
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