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Abram Molarsky
Gloucester Harbour - American Impressionist Landscape Oil by Abram Molarsky

c.1920

$18,201.81
£13,335
€15,688.14
CA$25,345.10
A$27,235.98
CHF 14,613.68
MX$320,823.21
NOK 183,750.87
SEK 167,855.24
DKK 117,246.93

About the Item

Signed oil on canvas laid on board landscape by American Impressionist painter Abram Molarsky. The work, painted in mostly pastel shades of green, blue and purple depicts a view of boats in Gloucester Harbour in Massachusetts. Signature: Signed lower right Dimensions: Framed: 32"x36" Unframed: 20"x24" Provenance: Private collection - Texas, USA Abram Molarsky was an American Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artist, known primarily as a landscape painter and a colorist. His work is characterized by rich hues and strong, textured brushwork. Born in a Jewish family in Kyiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), he immigrated with his family to the United States in 1887.In 1889 he began studying painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. His teachers included William Merritt Chase, Thomas Anshutz, and Cecilia Beaux. Abram Molarsky and his younger brother Maurice Molarsky,who was also a student at the Pennsylvania Academy, went to Paris to continue their artistic studies. Maurice arrived in 1904, and Abram in 1905. In 1906 Abram returned to Philadelphia, where he married artist Sarah Ann Shreve in 1908. In 1913, Molarsky had his first solo show at the Doll Richards Gallery in Boston, where he and his wife had settled. "Molarsky's color is delicate, refined and harmonious," wrote critic William Howe Downes, who had authored books about American painters Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent. After five years in the Boston area, the family moved to Nutley, New Jersey, where Molarsky spent the rest of his life. Many of the landscapes he painted are scenes of the local parks, woods and fields near Nutley, where he and his wife often worked plein air. During the summers, they often painted in Provincetown, Gloucester and Rockport, Massachusetts. In 1922 a writer for The Boston Evening Transcript visited Molarsky's summer studio in Gloucester and wrote that the paintings had "a rich and translucent patina of color." He described one landscape: "Delightful to the senses is a little scene from the moors overlooking the harbor, with its fresh notations of color, flight of green, soft distance and rolling clouds." Throughout his career, Molarsky showed at many galleries and museums, including the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery, the National Academy of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Montclair Art Museum and the Newark Museum. In New York, he was represented by the Milch Gallery. In addition to doing his own work, Molarsky taught plein air painting, watercolor and pastel to students in Nutley for many years.
  • Creator:
    Abram Molarsky
  • Creation Year:
    c.1920
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 32 in (81.28 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Very good condition.
  • Gallery Location:
    Marlow, GB
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: LFA01331stDibs: LU415315782592

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