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THBRobert Caulfield (Born 1930) American, Watercolor on Paper
About Seller
522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveJan 18, 2025
Over 800 lots will be offered in day 1 of our 2 day weekend. There are multiple lots of fine art from mixed medias and abstracts to landscapes and lithographs. We have a Todd Warner Rhino Sculpture, a collection of art glass sculptures, modern furniture, Lalique, Kosta Boda, Parkwest Gallery artworks, and Coca-Cola collectibles. Sarasota Estate Auction sarasotaestateauction@gmail.com
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Robert Caulfield (b. 1930) American, Watercolor on Paper. Title: "Wash Day." Depicts a two toned tenement house with laundry hanging outside some of the windows. Signed bottom left. Framing label on back.
Overall Size: 36 1/2 x 30 1/2 in.
Sight Size: 26 x 20 1/4 in.
#4578
Abandoned at birth in December of 1930 to poverty and the neglectful care of his maternal grandmother, Robert Owen Caulfield spent the first ten years of his life running wild on the dangerous inner-city streets of Depression-era Roxbury, Massachusetts. His urge to express himself as an artist found an early outlet when he began drawing on those streets with chalk at the age of six. When he was ten his paternal grandparents adopted him, and they moved to the seaside city of Lynn. He played football in high school, while art was put on the backburner. He enlisted in the US Marines in 1948 and served two years in Korea before returning home and eloping with his high school sweetheart, Marilyn Le Blanc. In 1952 Robert accepted a job as a truck driver with a local utility company, and a year later he decided to drop out of the Practical School of Art in Boston in order to focus more on his growing family. He spent the next thirty-three years working there until eventually he was in a secure upper management position, but never lost sight of his dream of becoming a full-time artist. In 1956 Robert took night classes in life drawing and watercolor at the New England School of Art, but once again, financial constraints imposed by the birth of his fourth child forced him to reluctantly quit. It was the last formal art education he ever had. In whatever spare time he had, he continued to paint, and his first recognition came in 1962 when his painting “Nuns on a Misty Morning” was chosen as “Best in Show” at a Jordan Marsh exhibition. He attended galleries and museums whenever he could, gathering influences from the French Impressionists, World War II combat artists, and the American Ashcan School. In 1965 the family moved to Lynnfield, and Robert began submitting his art to major corporations in the hopes they would be used for advertisement. In the early 1970s his work appeared nationally in the annual American Mutual calendar, and in 1977 he became a member of the Boston Copley Society, one of the oldest art associations in America. In 1982 one of his paintings appeared as the center spread of Yankee Magazine, and Marilyn convinced Robert to take early retirement and open a gallery. They bought an old house in Woodstock, Vermont and converted it to a gallery, showing his work and encouraging other local artists to exhibit. In 1998 Robert was honored as one of the “leading street painters and modern Impressionists” by Art Trends Magazine. That same year New York Plaza Hotel hung reproductions of his work in every suite. He published two books in the early 2000s: The Art of Robert O. Caulfield, and Ruggles Street, The Life of an American Artist. Robert continues to paint and maintain the gallery, although much of the 2010s were spent caring for Marilyn before she passed away from complications due to Alzheimer's in 2019.
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36 1/2 x 30 1/2 in.
