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THBOliver Kemp (1887-1934)
About Seller
65 Sharp Street
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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LiveJul 25, 2015 - Jul 26, 2015
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Fishing, c. 1910
oil on canvas, 32 by 24 in.Maj. Oliver Kemp was an accomplished artist and illustrator who created many covers for popular periodicals including The Century, Colliers, Scribner's, Harper's, and The Saturday Evening Post. He traveled regularly to experience the adventures he illustrated, and served as a major in World War I. He studied art in Europe under James McNeill Whistler and Jean Leon Gerome, and in the U.S. under William Merritt Chase, John Singer Sargent, and Howard Pyle. Kemp worked in New York but made his home in Michigan, where he died in 1934 at the age of 48.
This dynamic fly fishing work was used by the Horton Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Connecticut, the makers of Bristol Steel Fishing Rods, to promote their popular products in a 1910 advertisement. The painting was also illustrated in a 1981 article on the artist that appeared in Gray's Sporting Journal. It is one of Kemp's finest known fishing scenes.
Provenance: Private Collection, Virginia
Literature: "The Art of Oliver Kemp," Gray's Sporting Journal, Vol. 6, Issue 1, Winter 1981, p. 44, illustrated.
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