M. FORD CREECH ANTIQUES & FINE ARTS
ELISHA KENT KANE WETHERILL
American, New York, 1874-1929
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"BACK LOT WITH LAUNDRY LINES"
Oil on canvas
Possible inscription or monogram l.l. corner
Inscribed "Estate of E. Kent K. Wetherill"
verso
Housed in a custom carved American Impressionist white gold frame
Museums:
Whistler House Museum of Art; Everson Museum
Of Art; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts;
Philadelphia Sketch Club; Art
Club Philadelphia; Luxembourg Museum, Paris
Books 17:
including Light, Air,
and Color:
American Impressionist Paintings from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Danly;
Art What Thou Eat, Images
of Food in American Art;
Gustafson; The History and
Ideals of American Art, Neuhaus
This work by Philadelphia and New York
painter Elisha Kent Kane
Wetherill depicts a simple
but whimsical scene of laundry lines stretched above green
grasses
that doubtless no
longer exist in this New York back lot.
The
vibrancy of the clothes-pinned vermillion shirt stands out with both dimensional
brushwork
andcolor in this luminous but quiet genre painting of a city
setting
at the beginning of the 20th century.
Wetherill studied with Thomas Anshutz at the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Art
in the late 1890s and from 1906-09, with J.P.
Laurens at the Académie Julian in Paris, 1902,
and with James Abbot
McNeill Whistler, also in Paris.
He
specialized in views of New York, including figural work as well as
landscapes and seascapes.
He was a member of the National Academy
of Design, Salmagundi Club, Allied Artists of America,
Brooklyn Society
of Etchers, and the Philadelphia Sketch Club.
In 1915, Wetherill
received a gold medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco.
and in 1926 won a silver medal at the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition in
Philadelphia.
He also exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago,
and at the National Academy of Design in 1925.
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Image Size : 13” x 14”
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"Self-Portrait", Elisha Kent Kane Wetherill, published 1900-1929
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
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Elisha Kent Kane WETHERILL
(1874-1929)
Birth place : Philadelphia, PA
Death place : Aberdeen, SC
Addresses : Philadelphia PA; NYC / Phoenicia,
NY
Profession : Painter in oil and watercolor,
etcher
Studied : University of Pennsylvania;
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art with Anshutz, late 1890s & 1906-09;
Académie Julian, Paris with J.P. Laurens, 1902;
also with Whistler in Paris.
Exhibited : Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Art Annual, 1906-10, 1921-27; Corcoran Gallery biennials,
1907-26 (6 times); Pan-Pacific Expo, San Francisco,
1915
Sesqui-Centenniel Expo, Philadelphia, 1926 (medal);
Salons of America; Art Institute of Chicago.
Member : Associate National Academy, 1927;
Sketch Club; Salmagundi Club;
Allied Artists of America; Brooklyn Society of
Etchers
Work : Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; Art
Club Philadelphia; Luxembourg Museum, Paris
Comments : Specialized in seascapes, views of
New York, and figural works.
His death was the result of injuries received in World War I.
Sources : WW27; Danly, Light, Air, and
Color, 89; Falk, Exhibition Record Series.
This
biography is drawn from the 'Who Was Who in American Art',
the reference
book on the cultural life in the United States.
Museums :
Whistler House Museum of Art
Everson Museum Of Art
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia Sketch Club
Art Club Philadelphia
Luxembourg Museum, Paris
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