Tugboat, Provinctown Docks, circa 1950. Watercolor on paper. Estate stamp verso. Dimensions: 14" x 18". Framed under glass. Provincetown became Corbridge's favorite summer spot to sketch the vistas he saw. He would bring the sketches back to his studio in the winter and transform the scene into fully developed watercolors. Peter Corbridge, son of the painter, remembers this process, “Our house smelled of casein in the winter. My father would sketch in the summers when we vacationed on the Cape and in the winter he would paint from the sketches. Casein was the winter smell.” Corbidge (1901-1988) began painting during the Modernist period of the late 1930s and early 1940s, and shares the precise, linear style of Charles Sheeler. In a 1947 review, The Boston Herald stated, “We are vaguely reminded of Charles Sheeler, except that Sheeler often paints as though for architectural drawings, whereas the Fall River [Corbridge] artist has the poet's touch as well as the precisionist’s.” Corbridge tended towards industrial scenes and architectural forms, resulting in compositions that are simple, geometric, and emphasize pure, clean lines. He used broadly washed planes of color in the work and then clusters groups of strong masses like a farmhouse or factory building to balance the painting.

Good

14 x 18 in

5 lb