Oil pastel of New York view by Carl Sprinchorn
Pastel (sight to mat): 13.75" x 18.5"
Frame: 24.5" x 30.5"

Carl Sprinchorn
Carl Sprinchorn (1887-1971) was a Swedish-born American artist who studied under Robert Henri and who adopted a style of realist modernism that admiring critics saw as both abstract and revolutionary. His oil paintings and works on paper showed a wide range of subjects. He made cityscapes and street scenes, seascapes and beach scenes, bucolic landscapes and farm scenes. He drew famous dancers, society figures, and both urban and rural men at work. As one critic put the matter, "He has the rare quality of making whatever subject he essays interesting and unusual, be it bouquets of flowers, riders in six-day bicycle races, Spanish dancers or straight American landscape. He achieved acclaim for pictures he made while living in New York and during extensive travels. In 1918, a critic said his drawings showed the kind of "bold pen outline" and gift for incisive statement that could be seen in work by British caricaturist, Thomas Rowlandson. Another critic noted a sensuous, aristocratic nostalgia in Sprinchorns urban scenes, describing them as delicate, suggestive impressions. Throughout much of his career Sprinchorns floral paintings in oil, pastel, and watercolor also attracted critical attention. Reviewing watercolors exhibited in 1928, a critic praised a subtle relation of colors" in a floral work and said that if colors could sing, these would chant melodiously. Sprinchorn made extensive visits to camps and hamlets in the North Maine Woods and the paintings and drawings he made there came to be his most celebrated works.

Good condition overall