Modern, Post War, & Contemporary: Art + Design
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Lot 37
WILBUR NIEWALD / Three Geraniums with Onions (1976 Oil)
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Wilbur Niewald
(Missouri, b. 1925)
Three Geraniums with Onions, 1976
Oil on canvas
25" x 29"
A still life composed of geraniums and onions, which was selected for exhibition in Wilbur Niewald's A Forty Year Retrospective, 1951-1991 (1992) at the Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery. Signed and titled to the reverse. Presented in a frame that measures 25 3/4" 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.
Literature: Wilbur Niewald: A Forty Year Retrospective, 1951-1991. Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City, 1992.
Provenance: From the corporate art collection of a Kansas City based Fortune 500 company, previously acquired from the Nelson Sales & Rental Gallery.
Stretcher marks present around the edges of the oil, not too predominant. To the left of the image in the background are several small overpainted spots.
(Missouri, b. 1925)
Three Geraniums with Onions, 1976
Oil on canvas
25" x 29"
A still life composed of geraniums and onions, which was selected for exhibition in Wilbur Niewald's A Forty Year Retrospective, 1951-1991 (1992) at the Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery. Signed and titled to the reverse. Presented in a frame that measures 25 3/4" 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.
Literature: Wilbur Niewald: A Forty Year Retrospective, 1951-1991. Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City, 1992.
Provenance: From the corporate art collection of a Kansas City based Fortune 500 company, previously acquired from the Nelson Sales & Rental Gallery.
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