ARTHUR VIDAL DIEHL OIL PAINTING AUTUMN LANDSCAPE b.1870

ARTHUR VIDAL DIEHL OIL PAINTING AUTUMN LANDSCAPE b.1870

Arthur Vidal Diehl
American, 1870-1929
Autumn Landscape with Quiet Stream
Signed: Arthur V. Diehl - (lr)
Oil on Canvas
8 x 10 inches
Condition report: Very good to excellent; 99% original surface paint. Minor crazing throughout, Displays beautifully!

- PROVENANCE: Skinner Inc, 3/2/2007 Lot: 410, SOLD: 999.00 USD Over a pre-sale estimate of $700-900 USD.

Frame: Housed in an important fire-gilded Paul Carter Goodnow signed frame.

FRAME MAKER:
Paul Carter Goodnow, 53, of Lincoln, RI, died unexpectedly on Wednesday, January 18, 2012. He was the beloved husband of Grace (Borges) Goodnow. They had been married for 35½ years.

Paul was born in Providence, RI, and was son of Doris (Phelps) Goodnow and the late Gordon A. Goodnow. Paul lived most of his life in Lincoln. Besides being a great, caring person, Paul was an artist, picture frame maker and a member of Carpenter's Local 94. He was also associated with the Christian Congregation of Jehova's Witnesses in Lincoln, RI.

Paul won many awards for his art work and his hand-carved gilded frames. He was a member at many art associations including Rockport Art, Lyme Art and North Shore. His work was shown at many galleries throughout New England.

Besides his wife, Grace, and mother, he leaves his son Paul Michael Goodnow, and daughter Sherrie Sharp and her husband Alex Sharp of Smithfield, RI. He also leaves his sister Gail Cabana and her husband Robert of Cumberland, RI, sister Diane Dickinson and her husband Leslie, Jr. of Lincoln, RI, and brother Ethan Goodnow and his wife Debra of Cumberland, RI. He also leaves many nieces, nephews and many good friends in the art community. Paul will be missed by all. A Memorial Talk will be held at 2pm Saturday, January 28, 2012 in the Keefe Funeral Home, Five Higginson Ave, Lincoln. ARTIST BIO: Born in England to an artistic family, Arthur Diehl by age 19 had abandoned his education at Oxford University to explore the Continent, for a period studying painting in Milan, Italy. He returned to England, establishing a studio in London. In 1889 Diehl exhibited a painting titled The Quay, at Aldeburgh at the Royal Academy.

In 1891 Diehl travelled to the United States. Among his many jobs in the arts as a singer, actor and musician, Diehl also decorated piecework, such as snuffbox tops, to make ends meet. By the turn of the century, he had established studios in Englewood cliffs (1905-09), then Lakewood and Asbury Park (1909-13), New Jersey.

By 1912 and possibly through an introduction from friends in the theater, Diehl and his third wife spent their summers on Cape Cod in Truro (1912-13) and Provincetown (1914-20) where Diehl established studios. He was known to paint rapidly on small canvasses usually composing his scenes from memory and entertaining onlookers as he painted, who in turn would often buy the works he completed right before them.

Catering to tourists drawn to the Cape each summer as well as visitors to his studios, Diehl was indifferent to artistic reputation and happy to sustain his family through his painting. During the winter months, he would also reside in Saint Augustine, Florida (1920-23), repeating the formula of his northern success, while still maintaining studios in Massachusetts and Hartford (1924-26) and New Haven (1926-1928), Connecticut.

Diehl died in Falls River, MA, in 1929.
Condition Report: Very good to excellent; 99% original surface paint. Minor crazing throughout, Displays beautifully!