Daniel Garber (American, 1880–1958) Up the River, Winter

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• Lot Description
  Daniel Garber (American, 1880–1958) Up the River, Winter

  Signed '-DANIEL GARBER-' bottom center left, oil on canvas
  30 x 30 in. (76.2 x 76.2cm)
  Executed in January 1915.
  
  

  
  
  

  Provenance

  The Artist.
  Acquired directly from the above through E. J. Halow, Reading, Pennsylvania.
  Collection of George Nye, Manistee, Michigan.
  Collection of J. Bennett Nolan, Reading, Pennsylvania (before 1932).
  Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (by 1962).
  Collection of Stanley S. Snellenburg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (January 1964).
  Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Plymouth Meeting Gallery, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania.
  Acquired directly from the above in 1989.
  Collection of Virginia and Stuart Peltz, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

  
  
  Footnote:

  Literature

  Artist's Record Book I, lines 13-17, p. 13

  Artist's Record Book II, p. 92.

  Letter from J. Bennett Nolan to Daniel Garber, March 21, 1932.

  Letter from Daniel Garber to J. Bennett Nolan, December 1, 1942

  Letter from J. Bennett Nolan to Daniel Garber, April 20, 1953.

  Lance Humphries, Daniel Garber: Catalogue Raisonné, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, 2006. Vol. II, p. 114, P 336 (illustrated).

  Note

  The paintings Daniel Garber produced during the 1920s often depict habitations and towns gently embraced and framed by nature, as exemplified by the present work. Up the River, Winter depicts an impressive, expansive view of the not-yet-frozen Delaware river from above Mary Taylor's cottage, a charming little house perched on the edge of the cliff in the direction of Lumberville. The artist seemed to enjoy this view as the house appears in other works such as The Old Farm, Springtime (1923), as well as November Snow (1923) and Quarry by Taylor's (date unknown).

  Although Daniel Garber was not the only one to feature barns and houses in his landscapes, he was the first one to treat them as part of the narrative rather than just picturesque, accessory elements. As Lance Humphries points out however, "the artist's works from this period rarely tell a story in front of a bulilding; rather, it is the structure itself that tells the story." In the present work Humphries continues, a house "hunker[s] down into [its] snowy hillside, appearing to endure the winter in anticipation of summer when the trees that arch over [it] will shade and protect [it].

  Traditionally seen as a painter of spring and summer, Garber here proves his ability to capture the so-distinctive winter light, and to represent the anatomy of the bare landscape. As the artist himself confessed: "The earth forms are very handsome in late autumn and winter; when the anatomy of the ground is so defined in beautifully toned planes of dead grass, exposed stone, and handsome lines and curves of the turf." Here, the leftover blotches of snow, slowly melting away, help enliven the scene and highlight its inherent structure. Captured in varying hues of white, blue and green, the snow also vivifies the contrast with the warmer surrounding colors, which are here to suggest the arrival of spring, and make the viewer aware of the passage of time. Through his exact capturing of a soft winter light on the rugged Pennsylvania landscape, Garber transcends an ordinary moment into an almost ethereal image. Similar to George Inness, he beautifully extracts from the spectacle of winter an elevating and ennobling experience in a somewhat melancholic, elegiac mood.

  
  
  Condition report:

  Frame: 39 1/4 x 39 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.

  The relined canvas in very good condition. With light stretcher bar mark running along the top outer edge of the work, and light craquelure at center; mostly located on the white ice on the river. With small crease/scruff in the canvas at bottom right corner. Examination under UV light does not reveal any restoration. Some of the pigments (notably the greys, but also some pinks and yellows) appear purplish under UV light: not inpainting.

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