Modern, Post War, & Contemporary: Art + Design
Mon, Jun 28, 2021 01:00AM EDT
Lot 38
WILBUR NIEWALD / Tanglewood (1973 Watercolor)
Sold for
$850
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| $500 | $50 |
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| $5,000 | $250 |
| $10,000 | $500 |
| $20,000 | $1,000 |
| $50,000 | $2,500 |
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Wilbur Niewald
(Missouri, b. 1925)
Tanglewood, 1973
Watercolor on paper
17" x 22"
An abstracted view from Tanglewood, Massachusetts, where Niewald taught (at Boston University) in the early 1970s. Signed to the bottom right, and signed/ titled to the reverse. Float-mounted behind glass in a frame that measures 24 1/2" x 29 3/4".
Wilbur Niewald has been dubbed "the Patriarch of the Kansas City Art World" by Julián Zugazagoitia, director of the Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art. Each of Niewald's paintings offered in this auction date from the 1970s, a decade pivotal to his identity as an artist, transitioning from a distinct abstract style to one more resolutely based on natural observation. In addition to a career of creating exciting and influential works of his own, Niewald joined the Kansas City Art Institute's faculty in 1949, where over the course of several decades in a variety of roles (including the Chair of Painting and Printmaking) he helped shape KCAI pedagogy and prepare generations of contemporary artists.
Provenance: From the corporate art collection of a Kansas City based Fortune 500 company, previously acquired directly from the artist.
There is the artist's pinhole at each corner of the sheet. Otherwise the work is in very good condition, with no issues apparent. Not removed from the frame.
(Missouri, b. 1925)
Tanglewood, 1973
Watercolor on paper
17" x 22"
An abstracted view from Tanglewood, Massachusetts, where Niewald taught (at Boston University) in the early 1970s. Signed to the bottom right, and signed/ titled to the reverse. Float-mounted behind glass in a frame that measures 24 1/2" x 29 3/4".
Wilbur Niewald has been dubbed "the Patriarch of the Kansas City Art World" by Julián Zugazagoitia, director of the Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art. Each of Niewald's paintings offered in this auction date from the 1970s, a decade pivotal to his identity as an artist, transitioning from a distinct abstract style to one more resolutely based on natural observation. In addition to a career of creating exciting and influential works of his own, Niewald joined the Kansas City Art Institute's faculty in 1949, where over the course of several decades in a variety of roles (including the Chair of Painting and Printmaking) he helped shape KCAI pedagogy and prepare generations of contemporary artists.
Provenance: From the corporate art collection of a Kansas City based Fortune 500 company, previously acquired directly from the artist.
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