Charles Meurer "Eastfork Landscape: Evening with Sheep"

Item Details

Charles Alfred Meurer (German-born American, 1865–1955)
Eastfork Landscape: Evening with Sheep, circa 1940
Oil on canvas
Signed to the lower right
Closson’s label to verso

Charles Meurer was born in Germany to American parents and raised in Tennessee. He eventually settled in Terrace Park, Ohio, where he maintained a studio until his death in 1955. He was proclaimed “the last living member of the great school of American trompe l’oeil.” He had studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati under Frank Duveneck, as well as in France at the Academy Julian and École des Beaux-Arts. However, it was seeing the work of Michael Harnett at the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition of 1886 that inspired his exploration of trompe l’oeil. His work My Passport, painted the year of Harnett’s death, won honorable mention at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and established his national reputation.

Condition

- slight canvas undulation and stretcher distortion; scattered spots of loss, particularly to the edges; toning; abrasions and small losses to the frame.

Dimensions

- measurement of the frame.

• Item not examined outside of mounting.

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Item #

ITMGQ40923