WALTER RUSSELL OIL PAINTING IPSWICH MASS. NEWCOMB FRAME
WALTER RUSSELL OIL PAINTING IPSWICH MASS. NEWCOMB FRAME
DETAILS:
- ARTIST: Walter Russell
- BIRTH: American, (1871-1963)
- TITLE: Ipswich Massachusetts Landscape
- SIGNED: Walter Russell (lr);
- MEDIUM: Oil on Canvas
- SIZE: 16-1/8 x 22 In. (artwork) / 24 x 30 In. (framed)
- CONDITION: Very good to excellent; 99% original surface paint. Minor crazing throughout, thick impasto paint, very bright color palette. Displays beautifully!
- ADDITIONAL NOTES: Housed in its original hand carved gilt wood important American Newcomb-Macklin Frame (with typical gusseted corner splines).
ARTIST BIO:
Walter Bowman Russell was born in Boston May 19, 1871 and died in Waynesboro VA on his 92nd birthday, 1963. He left school at age 10 and became a musician. He put himself through the Massachusetts Normal School of Art and was self-supporting by 1891. He was taught by Ernest Major and Albert Munsell in Boston, and worked with Marcus Waterman briefly. He then went to Paris and studied under Jean Paul Laurens at the Academie Julien. From his youth he seemed to be at the right place at the right time; for example, he played for Paderewski and discussed an illustration job with Mark Twain in 1891-1892. After his marriage to Helen May Andrews he moved to NYC in 1894 where he spent the next 50 years.
His career as an illustrator culminated in a stint as art editor of "Collier's" 1897-1898; and in the Spanish-American War he was a correspondent for 'Century' and 'Collier's Weekly'. At about the same time he enrolled in Howard Pyle's classes in Philadelphia. HIs allegorical painting "The Might of Ages" won recognition in the Turin Exposition in 1900.
From illustration he moved to portraiture, at first of children, later of notable adults. During this period he wrote three children's books. Through his friendship with President Theordore Roosevelt, he became involved in the breeding of horses.
Beginning in 1903, he began the project of building an artists's colony on W. 67th Street, specifically the Hotel DesArtistes. He is credited with the invention of the cooperative ownership plan. He built other structures in NYC and in Florida in the 1920s. During this time he was a founder of the NY Skating Club and became a champion skater.
By age 56 he had turned to sculpture, winning many important commissions, including portrait busts of Thomas Edison, George Gershwin, Paderewski, T. Roosevelt, Gabrilowitsch, Lipton, etc. Considered his masterpiece, the Mark Twain Memorial (1935) consists of 28 figures, all characters from Twain's novels, with a seated Twain in the center. He also sculpted the Four Freedoms from President FDR's concept of four angels facing the points of the compass.
At age 77 he married Lao Cook. His 1955 pastel portrait of her has been destroyed by the oil paper he used, but the charts and diagrams he drew late in life to illustrate his scientific theories have been collected and published.
Walter Bowman Russell was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts. Walter Russell is known for portrait bust, illustrator, sculptor. Russell has high auction records of $77,000 USD with a 81% auction sell thru rate, and only 32 examples offered.
NEWCOMB MACKLIN:
S.H. McElswain founded a framing company in 1871 in Evanston, Illinois, but the name by which it is known to collectors today comes from a partnership that began twelve years later in 1883, with McElswainans bookkeepers Charles Macklin and John C. Newcomb, who formed a partnership in order to assume command of the business.
The company, which would have enough success to support showrooms in Chicago and New York as well as a crew of traveling salesmen, owed much of its early success to the relationships it established with schools of artists, like the American Impressionists and the Taos School, as well as with specific artists such as John Singer Sargent, Maxfield Parrish, George Bellows and many others. By working directly with their important artist clients to develop frame styles and finish treatments to complement their paintings, Newcomb-Macklin developed powerful relationships and placed their frames in the finest art collections in the country.
They also worked with only the best in terms of designers and craftsmen, producing some of the most beautiful and original Arts & Crafts frames in America. Some of their most famous frames are based on reproductions of the work of famed architect Stanford White. Newcomb-Macklin acquired the rights to White's work after his assassination in 1906. Newcomb-Macklin frames have a distinctive construction that makes them readily identifiable. Their corner splines (spline is basically a fancy word for slat) are unique and are sometimes referred to as perpendicular. Unlike most frames which are joined with a traditional 45-degree miter cut, a butterfly joint or perhaps a dovetail joint, Newcomb-Macklin frame corners are essentially a separate piece, like a chunky V-shaped section, between the side slats of the frame.
Condition Report: Very good to excellent; 99% original surface paint. Minor crazing throughout, thick impasto paint, very bright color palette. Displays beautifully!
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WALTER RUSSELL OIL PAINTING IPSWICH MASS. NEWCOMB FRAME
DETAILS:
- ARTIST: Walter Russell
- BIRTH: American, (1871-1963)
- TITLE: Ipswich Massachusetts Landscape
- SIGNED: Walter Russell (lr);
- MEDIUM: Oil on Canvas
- SIZE: 16-1/8 x 22 In. (artwork) / 24 x 30 In. (framed)
- CONDITION: Very good to excellent; 99% original surface paint. Minor crazing throughout, thick impasto paint, very bright color palette. Displays beautifully!
- ADDITIONAL NOTES: Housed in its original hand carved gilt wood important American Newcomb-Macklin Frame (with typical gusseted corner splines).
ARTIST BIO:
Walter Bowman Russell was born in Boston May 19, 1871 and died in Waynesboro VA on his 92nd birthday, 1963. He left school at age 10 and became a musician. He put himself through the Massachusetts Normal School of Art and was self-supporting by 1891. He was taught by Ernest Major and Albert Munsell in Boston, and worked with Marcus Waterman briefly. He then went to Paris and studied under Jean Paul Laurens at the Academie Julien. From his youth he seemed to be at the right place at the right time; for example, he played for Paderewski and discussed an illustration job with Mark Twain in 1891-1892. After his marriage to Helen May Andrews he moved to NYC in 1894 where he spent the next 50 years.
His career as an illustrator culminated in a stint as art editor of "Collier's" 1897-1898; and in the Spanish-American War he was a correspondent for 'Century' and 'Collier's Weekly'. At about the same time he enrolled in Howard Pyle's classes in Philadelphia. HIs allegorical painting "The Might of Ages" won recognition in the Turin Exposition in 1900.
From illustration he moved to portraiture, at first of children, later of notable adults. During this period he wrote three children's books. Through his friendship with President Theordore Roosevelt, he became involved in the breeding of horses.
Beginning in 1903, he began the project of building an artists's colony on W. 67th Street, specifically the Hotel DesArtistes. He is credited with the invention of the cooperative ownership plan. He built other structures in NYC and in Florida in the 1920s. During this time he was a founder of the NY Skating Club and became a champion skater.
By age 56 he had turned to sculpture, winning many important commissions, including portrait busts of Thomas Edison, George Gershwin, Paderewski, T. Roosevelt, Gabrilowitsch, Lipton, etc. Considered his masterpiece, the Mark Twain Memorial (1935) consists of 28 figures, all characters from Twain's novels, with a seated Twain in the center. He also sculpted the Four Freedoms from President FDR's concept of four angels facing the points of the compass.
At age 77 he married Lao Cook. His 1955 pastel portrait of her has been destroyed by the oil paper he used, but the charts and diagrams he drew late in life to illustrate his scientific theories have been collected and published.
Walter Bowman Russell was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts. Walter Russell is known for portrait bust, illustrator, sculptor. Russell has high auction records of $77,000 USD with a 81% auction sell thru rate, and only 32 examples offered.
NEWCOMB MACKLIN:
S.H. McElswain founded a framing company in 1871 in Evanston, Illinois, but the name by which it is known to collectors today comes from a partnership that began twelve years later in 1883, with McElswainans bookkeepers Charles Macklin and John C. Newcomb, who formed a partnership in order to assume command of the business.
The company, which would have enough success to support showrooms in Chicago and New York as well as a crew of traveling salesmen, owed much of its early success to the relationships it established with schools of artists, like the American Impressionists and the Taos School, as well as with specific artists such as John Singer Sargent, Maxfield Parrish, George Bellows and many others. By working directly with their important artist clients to develop frame styles and finish treatments to complement their paintings, Newcomb-Macklin developed powerful relationships and placed their frames in the finest art collections in the country.
They also worked with only the best in terms of designers and craftsmen, producing some of the most beautiful and original Arts & Crafts frames in America. Some of their most famous frames are based on reproductions of the work of famed architect Stanford White. Newcomb-Macklin acquired the rights to White's work after his assassination in 1906. Newcomb-Macklin frames have a distinctive construction that makes them readily identifiable. Their corner splines (spline is basically a fancy word for slat) are unique and are sometimes referred to as perpendicular. Unlike most frames which are joined with a traditional 45-degree miter cut, a butterfly joint or perhaps a dovetail joint, Newcomb-Macklin frame corners are essentially a separate piece, like a chunky V-shaped section, between the side slats of the frame.
Condition Report: Very good to excellent; 99% original surface paint. Minor crazing throughout, thick impasto paint, very bright color palette. Displays beautifully!
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