Jon Corbino Large-Scale Oil Painting "Coming up From the Beach"

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Jon Corbino (American, 1905 – 1964)
Coming up From the Beach, mid-20th century
Oil painting on masonite board
Signed to lower right
Verso with 14 Waverly Place, New York City address, partial Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond label and remnants of a second exhibition label
Provenance: Ex-Collection of Millicent Rogers, art collector and namesake of the Millicent Rogers Museum founded by her son Paul Peralta – Ramos in Taos, New Mexico. Exhibitions: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. “137th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture,” January 25-March 1, 1942. Kleemann Galleries, New York, NY inv. #58 $7500 (per Peter Salm 1982 correspondence) Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA “Painting in the United States,” October 14-December 12, 1943. Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA “4th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting,” March 19-April 16, 1944. (Lent anonymously-Millicent Rogers at her Richmond home) She also, had NYC, Long Island, Taos, NM addresses Corbino Galleries, Longboat Key, FL. “Jon Corbino: Visual Treasures,” January 15-29, 1999.

‘Jon Corbino was born in Vittoria, Sicily in 1905 and came to the United States with his parents at the age of 8. He grew up in New York City and attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School on an art scholarship and then enrolled in the Art Students League. He received two Guggenheim Fellowships and was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in 1940. In 1941, he received the first grant awarded to a visual artist from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. The poet Stephen Vincent Benet made the presentation at Carnegie Hall, and in his commendation said that Corbino ’has brought to American art rare gifts of color and design, and because of the honesty, richness and variety of his work.’ Corbino’s work was also featured in three Venice Biennales.

In 1966, a critic for the Chicago American wrote of a Corbino retrospective exhibition: ‘he painted people of the world-people on the beach, in the sun, in the moonlight. But he graced them with spirit, life, and movement that transcend the everyday.’ His work is represented in 64 U.S. museums as well as the Lotus Club, New York, NY; First National Bank of Chicago; Fine Arts Society, Sarasota, FL; Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO; Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL; Georgetown University Library, Washington, D.C.; The United States Post Office, Long Beach, Long Island, NY; Town of Rockport, Massachusetts, Rockport, MA.’

- biography courtesy of Broward Auction Gallery from askART.com.

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Condition

- areas of pigment loss and wear to surface; cracks, scuffs and wear to frame.

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ITMG965511