Charles P. Gruppe Gouache and Watercolor Painting on Academy Board "Homeward"

Item Details

A circa 1927 gouache and watercolor painting on academy board titled Homeward by well-listed American artist Charles Paul Gruppe. The piece depicts an Impressionist-inspired bucolic autumn landscape scene, with a farmer and his horses walking down a country lane. The rural path appears still wet with rain, as they travel past green fields and bare trees, with birds flying in the cloudy skies overhead. The work is signed ‘Chas. P. Gruppe’ in black paint to the lower left. It is presented under glass in a gilt plein air-style wooden frame, fitted with hanging wire to the verso. The frame backing includes a ‘1927-1928 New York Water Color Club and American Water Color Society Member’s Label’ to the verso, bearing the artist’s name, work title and Gruppe’s 1920s Carnegie Hall address.

Charles Paul Gruppe (1860 – 1940) was born in Canada, and relocated to Rochester, New York as a child, eventually moving to Europe during his young adulthood to formally pursue his love of art. He remained in Holland for over two decades and became known for Dutch landscape scenes. He eventually moved back to America in the early 1900s, taking an apartment at New York’s famed Carnegie Hall. He would spend his later years painting scenes of Cape Ann, Massachusetts with his son, painter Emile Gruppe.

Condition

- moderate discoloration to image; minor wear and scuffing to frame; no backing paper present.

Dimensions

- measures frame; visible image measures 15.5" W x 11.5" H.

Item #

18DEN007-337