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  Oscar B. Erickson, “Early Morning Rockport”, Oil on canvas c. 1940

  OSCAR B. ERICKSON (1883 – 1970) American

  Early Morning Rockport c. 1940

  Oil on canvas

  Marks: Original exhibition label verso: THE NORTHWEST ART LEAGUE,

  INC., Oscar B. Erickson, Early Morning Rockport, oil

  For brief bibliographical listing see: Who Was Who in American Art,

  (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1985), p. 189.

  Canvas (sight): H: 21” x W: 23”

  Frame: H: 26 1/2” x W: 28 1/2”

  Oscar Erickson was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  He studied painting and printmaking at the Milwaukee Art League and later at the Herron Art Institute of Chicago. He exhibited at the Chicago Academy of the Fine Arts, the Hoosier Salon from 1927 to 1942, the Illinois State Museum, and the Norwegian Club.

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  Roger Georges Andre Duval, “La Chambré” Oil on canvas 1924

  ROGER GEORGES ANDRÈ DUVAL (1901-?) Meudon (Seine-et-Oise), France

  La Chambré 1924

  Oil on canvas

  Signed and dated: ROGER DUVAL XXIV(lower left)

  Exhbited: Paris, Salon des Indépendants, 1926, no. 1122

  For more information see: Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, Vol. 4, E. Bénézit (Paris: Librairie Gründ, 1976).

  Painting: H: 23 2/3” x W: 36 1/5”

  Framed: H: 35” x 47 5/8”

  Roger Duval painted in a modernist figurative style and beginning in 1920 regularly exhibited at the Salon d’Automne and the Salon des Indépendants in Paris. In 1925 he was awarded a prize by Paul Poiret for a painting entitled Conversation and again in 1926 for another painting entitled Bal Musette. Also in 1926, La Chambrée (1924) was exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants. By 1928 Duval’s technique had evolved into a moderninst/cubist style and a group of his paintings were featured in an Exposition of Painting and Sculpture in Boston, MA.

   It is interesting to note Duval’s shared vision with Picasso in their depiction of peasant figures in repose. Their full-bodied, voluptuous and sensual forms illustrate both artists’ sculptural approach to painting in the early 1920s. However by the mid-1920s Duval and Picasso’s painting styles evolved from these softer, rounded shapes into more angular, abstracted forms.