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"Gloucester Harborside"

Creator: Charles Gruppe
Offered by: Arthur T. Kalaher Fine Art

Description
Original oil on board painting of fishing boats docked in Gloucester harbor by the well known American artist, Charles Gruppe. Signed lower left by the artist. Circa 1975. Condition is excellent. Framed in a solid wood oak frame painted off white. Overall framed measurements are 26 by 37.75 inches. Provenance: A Southampton, New York collector.

Biographical Information for artist Charles Gruppe (1928-2019)

Charles C. Gruppe comes from a respected families of East Coast artists. His grandfather, Charles Paul Gruppé (1860-1940), studied and painted in Europe until moving to Rochester, New York. His uncles, sculptor Karl (1893-1982) and painter Emile (1896-1978) were successful and widely recognized for their work. Charles’s, father Paulo Gruppe, was a gifted cellist.

Charles Gruppe studied at Yale University and at Columbia, as well as at the National University of Mexico. He earned a Masters of Fine Art from Columbia University while on a fellowship there. He was also awarded a Fulbright Fellowship Grant and studied in Italy where he received an Italian Government Award.

Sadly, Charles passed away in October of 2019.

COMMISSIONS: Paintings, American President Lines; S.S. Coolidge, Jackson Wilson; Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT; Fort Lauderdale National Bank, Florida; Dolly O’Brien Estate, Palm Beach, FL; First National Bank, New Haven, CT; Actor Charlton Heston

EXHIBITIONS:

Allied Artists AM, New York, NY
Boston Arts Festival; Silvermine Guild Artists, New Canaan, CT
American Landscape Award, Provincetown Art Assn, MA
N.E. Annual Nantucket Art Assn., Nantucket, MA
Lord & Taylor, New York, NY
Cape Cod Art Assn., Gold Medal
Butler Museum, Youngstown, OH
AWARDS:

Witte Museum Purchase Award, San Antonio, TX
Knickerbocker Artists Award, New York City, 1985
Hudson Valley Art Assn. Award, 1990; Samagundi Club 1st Award, New York City, 1995
Arthritis Foundation Bronze Medal and Purchase Award, 1996
First Prize, Museum of Science & Art, Bridgeport, CT, 1997
Frederic Waugh Memorial Award, Provincetown, MA 1998
Art and the Law National Competition Award, 1998
Philip Schumaker Marine Award, Porckport Art Assn, 1989
Lyme, CT Art Assn, 2nd Prize, 1995
North Shore Art Assn. Award, 1994
Windsor Newton National Competition Award, 1995
Essex Art Assn. Popular Award, 1999
Hilton Head National Jury Show Award, 1999

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	United States
Period:	1950-1979
Materials:	Oil paint on canvas
Condition:	Excellent
Creation Date:	Circa 1975
Styles / Movements:	Contemporary
Incollect Reference #:	734425