Peter Svenson, "Triangle Painting", Oil on canvas 1976More Information
Peter Svenson, “Triangle Painting”, Oil on canvas 1976
PETER SVENSON (b. 1944)
“Triangle Painting” 1976
Oil on Canvas
Signed: Peter Svenson 1976, Turkey Shoot (on the stretcher) and canvas on verso.
H: 41 ½” x W: 48”
Nationally recognized artist and writer Peter Svenson was born in 1944 and received a bachelor of arts degree from Tufts University and a masters of fine arts in painting from the University of North Carolina.
Svenson created “Turkey Shoot” in 1976 based on color field painting theories. The triangular shaped canvas is unusual in this style of painting, the lines are precise, the paint is thinly laid on the primed canvas in flat primary and secondary colors. “During the late 1950s and 1960s, color field painters emerged in Great Britain, Canada, Washington, DC and the West Coast of the United States using formats of stripes, targets, simple geometric patterns and references to landscape imagery and to nature.” Some of the artists of the Washington Color School included Gene Davis, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland and Sam Gilliam.
Peter Svenson’s work relates to this group of Washington color field artists working in the style in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
African Bronze “Tree of Life” Sculpture 20th Century
African Bronze “Tree of Life” Sculpture 20th Century
Sand cast bronze with a brown black patina with golden highlights in an open work design depicting 18 figures perched on a tree form with various intricate pattern details.
***As a Primitive / Tribal sculpture this piece visually relates to some of the sculpture and painting of the renowned French artist Jean Dubuffet.
Josef Hoffmann / Wilhelm and Johann Jonasch / Vienna Secession Game table c. 1913
JOSEF HOFFMANN (1870-1956) Austria
WILHELM AND JOHANN JONASCH Austria
Game table with four drawers c. 1913
Oak, leather top with gold tooled detail
Made by Johann Jonasch (Kunsttischler)
Illustrated: Vienna 1900-1930, Art in the Home,
exhib. cat. Historical Design, Inc. (New York, 1996), p. 60-1.
Matching dining table illustrated in: Österreichische Werkkultur,
Max Eisler (Wien: Kunstverlag Anton Schroll & Co., 1916) p. 97.
Related tables by Hoffmann illustrated: Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, April-September 1914, p. 140-4; Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, April September 1916, pp. 199-200; Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Oct.-March 1917, p. 207-8; Möbel des Jugendstils: Sammlung des Österreichischen Museums für angewandte Kunst, Vera J. Behal (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1981), pp. 143-5; Josef Hoffmann e la Wiener Werkstätte, Daniele Baroni and Antonio D’Auria (Milan: Electa Editrice, 1981). pp 124-125.
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