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Ross Eugene Braught
Mako Sica (Tchaikovsky s Sixth, The Badlands)
1935

Name: Mako Sica (Tchaikovsky's Sixth, The Badlands)
Brand: Ross Eugene Braught
Rating: 5 (39 reviews)

$3,995List Price

About the Item

"Mako Sica" translates to "land bad" in Lakota (Sioux). Housed in a custom frame with archival materials and Museum Glass (UV Protection/Anti-reflective). Outer dimensions measure 20.75 x 22 x 1.25 inches; image dimensions measure 12.75 x 14.25 inches. Provenance: Collection of Eric Bransby (artist) About the Artist: After a successful career as an artist and educator, Ross Braught disappeared from view for the last two decades of his life, leaving only a post office box as contact. Yet no one was able to track down the mysterious figure, and thus his life's work became the source of legend rather than of history. In a way this was fitting for an artist who portrayed ancient myths and saw their resonance in nature. A 20th-century Romantic, Braught felt a life force coursing through all of creation. Like an artful Prospero, he celebrated the strange and wild and transformed the ordinary into mesmerizing wonder. Born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Braught attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, studying with Daniel Garber. Winning academic approval, he was awarded the Emlem Cresson Memorial Travelling Scholarship, which allowed him to visit England and Italy. In the twenties, he exhibited regularly at the Pennsylvania Academy, the National Academy of Design, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Society of Independent Artists. Braught married in 1923, and the couple settled in Upper Black Eddy, a tiny town on the Upper Delaware. Moving to Woodstock, New York, in 1928, the artist pursued his emerging interest in lithography. As the decade grew to a close, his paintings increased in size, and the motif of branching trees became a strong design element. During the Woodstock period, he began to explore the expressive possibilities of pictorial space with elevated perspective and compressed focus. Facing debt, Braught accepted a position at the Kansas City Art Institute as head of painting in 1931. During the summers, he travelled to the Dakota Badlands, the Grand Canyon, and the Colorado Rockies, and the experience Western spaces inspired more adventurous artistic compositions, in which landscape forms were highly stylized. When Braught turned to figural works, he now orchestrated rhythmic compositions of organic shapes. The flow from one form to another appears like a metamorphosis unfolding before the viewer's eyes. The masterwork of this phase of Braught's art is the 27-foot mural, "Mnemosyne and the Four Muses," at the top of the Grand Staircase of the Kansas City Music Hall. The Braughts travelled to Tortola in the British Virgin Islands for the first time in 1936. After a three-year stint teaching at Cornell, the artist moved to the island with his family in 1939, where they took up residence in a hotel for the next seven years. The island - its jungles and its people - provided a deep well of inspiration for Braught as the exotic pushed him to find new means of expression: "serious hunting for the real beauty of life." Due to shortages because of the war, Braught took to drawing with his children's pencils. The resulting works are testimony his capacity to create infinitely complex works with such a simple tool -- verification of Thomas Hart Benton's assertion that Braught was the greatest draughtsman of his age. His affinity for twisting tree branches now explored into intricate mazes of jungle growth: "The agitated movement of plants forms gave forth so much life and vitality that the utter lack of air currents and the breathlessness of atmosphere is a realization that comes as an afterthought." After the war, Braught returned to teach at the Kansas City Art Institute, where he stayed until 1962. As an instructor, he encouraged his students to be bold colorists. In his own work, he transplanted natural forms to the studio. In these late paintings, his spatial configurations became increasingly elaborate with tricky perspectives and reflections. These playful compositions, which hover between abstract design and illusion, anticipate post-modern works of later decades. With a reorganization of the Kansas City Art Institute, Braught returned to Philadelphia. It is believed that his wife may have had Alzheimer's, but the only communication from him was sending some pieces to the Institute in the early 60s. In 2000, Hirschl and Adler, New York organized the exhibition, "Ross Braught: A Visual Diary," which cast the spotlight on the artist once again. Exhibited: PAFA, 1922-34, 1939; Corcoran Gal, 1923-32; AIC, 1923-24, 1926; Kansas City AI1934, (prize); Midwestern Artists, 1935, 1936, (prize); Mystic AA; Salons of Am.; S.Indp.A; WMAA, 1948; Kansas City, MO, 1951 (first solo) Works held: PAFA; Beach Mem. Coll., Storrs, Conn.; William Rockhill Nelson Gal. A; WMAA; murals, Music Hall, Kansas City, MO; San Juan, PR Further Reading: Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Vol. I. Peter Hastings Falk, Georgia Kuchen and Veronica Roessler, eds.,Sound View Press, Madison, Connecticut, 1999. 3 Vols.; Cleveland, David. Ross Braught: A Visual Diary. Hirschl Adler Galleries, Inc.: New York, 2000. ©David Cook Galleries, LLC

Creator:
Ross Eugene Braught (1898 - 1983, American)
Creation Year:
1935
Dimensions:
Height: 20.75 in (52.71 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)Depth: 1.25 in (3.18 cm)
Medium:
Lithograph
Movement Style:
American Modern
Period:
Early 20th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Denver, CO
Reference Number:
Seller: 195661stDibs: LU2731557623

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