Aiden Lassell Ripley Figurative Paintings

AIDEN RIPLEY "HISTORY OF THE US POST POSTAL SERVICE" AMERICAN, C,1930'S OIL ON CANVAS, ESTATE STAMPED 25 X 28 INCHES Aiden Lassell Ripley 1886-1969 Aiden Lassell Ripley, painter, watercolor specialist, printmaker, teacher, he was born in Boston on December 31, 1896, and grew up in Wakefield, Massachusetts where his father was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Aiden Ripley, like his father, was also an accomplished musician, and although he chose art as his career he always kept his appreciation for music for the remainder of his life, most of which was spent in the Boston area. He began his studies with Philip Leslie Hale at the Fenway School of Illustration and later at the Boston Museum of fine Arts School under Tarbell and Benson. After serving in World War I, Ripley returned to the Museum School where in 1917 he won the Paige Traveling Fellowship that enabled him to study abroad for nearly two years in Africa, France and Holland, from December of 1923 until 1925. His newlywed wife, Doris, accompanied him on his trip to Europe. The two traveled through Europe, and Ripley produced a large number of the watercolors on that trip well as a smaller number of oil paintings. Upon his return to Boston, he received his first one-man show at the Guild of Boston Artists in 1926 where he exhibited paintings that depicted the landscapes done in Europe and Spain and of his native New England. Much to his delight the show was a huge success and one critic, A. J. Philpot of the Boston Globe stated: "The flash from obscurity to fame has come the past week to Aiden L. Ripley, a young Boston painter, has given an unusual thrill to the artists and connoisseurs of this city. In a week he was transformed from an art student to a painter of rank with the foremost of the day in watercolors and his works were being purchased not only by connoisseurs, but by some of the foremost artists in Boston--the people who know." That exhibition revealed Ripley's strength as a draftsman. He remained closely associated with the Guild for the rest of his career. Inspired by another successful showing of works held later that year Ripley decided to embark on a summer trip to Scandinavia in 1927. Because of the rave...

AIDEN LASSELL RIPLEY "TRAIN STATION" WATERCOLOR, SIGNED AMERICAN, C.1940 14 X 19.5 INCHES Aiden Lassell Ripley 1896-1969 Aiden Lasse...