Walter Lofthouse Dean (American, 1854-1912) A Summer Day on the Dutch Shore

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Walter Lofthouse Dean (American, 1854-1912)

A Summer Day on the Dutch Shore
Signed "W.L. DEAN" l.r., titled and signed ".../by Walter L. Dean" on the reverse, with a partial label from the Poland Spring Gallery (see below) on the stretcher.
Oil on canvas, 20 x 30 in. (50.7 x 76.3 cm),in a signed Foster Brothers Makers frame.
Condition: Retouch.

Exhibitions: Fourth Annual Exhibition, 1898, Poland Spring Gallery, Maine.

N.B. The Poland Spring Gallery was started by the Ricker family, purveyors of medicinal waters from Poland Spring and owners of the eponymous resort. The family purchased the Maine State Building from the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and in 1894 had it dismantled and reconstructed in Poland Spring to serve as a library and art gallery for the resort's guests. Beginning in 1895, the Poland Spring Art Gallery began exhibiting works by well known artists of the era including Walter Dean, Abbott Graves, Leon Dabo, and Charles H. Woodbury.
Estimate $1,000-1,500

Frame with inset brass disk identifying the makers on the back of the frame. Frame numbered "4775" and "4828" incised on the reverse and inscribed "4775/20 x 30/6-4828" on the stretcher. Frame dimensions are 31 x 41 in.

Retouch primarily to sky, with broadly brushed areas to left and center and with darker areas of retouch around the top of the mast of the sailing vessel on the far right and between the mast and the side of the canvas (the largest areameasuring about 3 x 2-1/2 inches. Another area of retouch in the sand at l.r. corner measuring 2 x 1 inch.


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