Fremont Ellis (1897 -1985) - Watercolor Painting

Description: Fremont F. Ellis (American, 1897-1985) This watercolor on paper of a mountain lake with a grove of pines and a mountain backdrop measures (sight) 8 x 6 or in the period frame of 18-1/2 x 16-1/2 and is signed lower right Fremont F. Ellis. The painting is in good condition with no visible defects or anything else that distracts when viewing. The painting, probably a scene of the High Sierra mountains, is done in colorful tinted pallet in the realistic style that Ellis is known for... making this a quintessential example of his work. Kenneth Dean Fine Art Gallery www.facebook.com/kennethdeanfineart Biography: Born in Virginia City, Montana, Fremont Ellis earned a reputation as a New Mexico painter of site-specific landscapes that conveyed his intense feelings for the rich coloration of the Southwest. He was much influenced by American Impressionism and was one of the few newcomer artists of Santa Fe who had been born in the West. His family had gone to Montana during the Gold Rush, and his father, trained as a dentist, went into theatrical work. As a youngster, Ellis played the drums in his father's movie theatre. The family traveled all over the county, and the future artist spent much time in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. He briefly attended the Art Students League, but decided to return back West to the landscape he loved. On his move West, Ellis first moved to El Paso, Texas, where he taught art and then a short time later to Santa Fe where he joined his friends Willard Nash, Jozef Bakos, Will Shuster, and Walter Mruk, together founding a modernist art society called the Los Cinco Pintores (The Five Painters). Though the charter of the organization clearly described their stylistic orientation as thoroughly modern, Ellis was never truly a modern painter, tending towards a more realistic style with his own curiously tinted palette. To achieve the right look, Ellis took photographs of the scenes he wished to paint with a variety of different lenses and techniques and then recreated the shifted color palette of the photographs on paper. However, the group did not stay together very long, as stylistically they went in different directions. Ellis, considered the "loner" of the group, married and spent a period of time in Espanola, about twenty-five miles north of Santa Fe. Later, he settled about ten miles east of Santa Fe in a home that came to be regarded as one of the most beautiful of the haciendas in that area. From the time he was young, he had developed a great love of the Spanish people of New Mexico. His wife was a member of an old, aristocratic New Mexican family that owned property in the Santa Fe area. He exhibited his work actively in Santa Fe and Los Angeles, where he had a dedicated following for his paintings that demonstrated a perspective of a gentle, circumspect individual that recorded a region and a way of life that would soon be permanently altered and potentially lost. His work is in the collection of UCLA, the Museum of New Mexico, the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History, the El Paso Museum, and the Art Institute, Lubbock, TX. Fremont Ellis died in Santa Fe in 1985.

Price: 1450 USD

Location: Dubuque, Iowa

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