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CHARLES COURTNEY CURRAN

American, 1861-1942

"Spring on the Mountain Side"

oil on canvas
signed and dated lower right "Charles C. Curran. N.A", titled on the reverse, inscribed on the reverse "Record / 262-20 / C.C.C."
25 1/4 x 30 in. (64.1 x 76.2 cm.), Frame: 29 1/2 x 34 1/2 x 2 in. (74.9 x 87.6 x 5.1 cm.)

  • Provenance: Private Collection, New York
  • Notes:

    Charles Courtney Curran was born in Kentucky and raised in Ohio. He first studied at the Cincinnati School of Design before moving to New York City in 1882. In New York City, he attended the National Academy of Design (N.A.D.) and the Art Students League. He exhibited his first painting at the N.A.D. in 1883 at 23 years old. From 1888-1891, Curran studied at the Academie Julian in Paris. While abroad, he successfully exhibited works at the Paris Salon and at Durand-Ruel Gallery.

    In 1891, Curran returned to the States, where he continued to enjoy success exhibiting at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the N.A.D., the Exposition Universelle in Paris, the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, the Louisiana Purchase exhibition and many others. He was elected a full Academician of the N.A.D. in 1904.

    For 40 years, Curran and his family would summer in Cragsmoor, New York, a growing artist colony since the late 19th century. The artist and his family were very active in the community, participating in summer social activities and helping to improve the town.

    The color palette of the present lot is characteristic of Curran's paintings of Cragsmoor. He captured the summer atmosphere by using a bright, pastel palette. Cragasmoor is known for its hiking trails and vistas of the Shawangunk Mountains. Here, the figure stands at a high point as if she is in the clouds, admiring the landscape around her.

    Curran's work is in the permanent collections of the Terra Museum of American Art in Illinois, National Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Witte Memorial Museum in Texas, the Fort Worth Art Museum in Texas, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Vassar College in New York and many other notable public and private collections.
  • Condition: in good overall condition, mylar-lined canvas on a new stretcher, a three-inch by two-inch repaired tear to the right of the figure, another smaller L-shaped repaired tear to the right of the figure, restoration to a 4x4-inch area to the left of the figure's scarf, other scattered minor restoration visible under UV

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