LARGE ORIGINAL MARVIN CONE CLOUD SCENE

MARVIN CONE (American 1891-1965)
Cloud Patterns - 1940
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left and titled on verso in artists hand
18 inches x 34 inches

Provenance
A prominent private Midwest collection

Throughout his work, Cone was able to distill a universal quality-poetic, romantic, and lyrical, from his surroundings. Unlike other strict regionalists, his chief objective was to increase our capacity for perception. A teacher at heart, Cone knew that the viewer, when looking at one of his works, would inevitably bring some personal memory to the experience, thereby increasing the impact of the painting. Throughout his life Cone concentrated on the landscape of the Midwest, capturing the special nuances of the light and the complex formations of the land and sky. These scenes, which rarely include people, are reminiscent of the Iowa countryside but without topographic precision. To Cone, the landscape and sky had a poignant reality that was nonetheless unpredictable and elusive. Nature's sublimity, more than its mere physical qualities, was the principal pursuit. In the offered lot the colors are subtle and evocative in their suggestions of light, and a complex layering of forms gives depth to the to the clouds in the huge expansive sky and seamlessly merge and echo the rolling rural Iowa landscapes which surrounded him.

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