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Louis Charles Moeller
In the Workshop

1900

$12,500
£9,478.66
€11,074.23
CA$17,874.29
A$18,148.50
CHF 10,288
MX$221,086.77
NOK 121,679.51
SEK 121,714.88
DKK 82,777.97

About the Item

This masterful and detail oriented depiction of potentially three generations of what may be leather tanners and or saddle-makers in their workshop is a very American genre scene that speaks of the artisan and craftsmanship of this era. Moeller stands as technically one of the more refined detail oriented painters of the turn of the century. This is a wonderful piece for a room to bring back a nod to history, to American trade and traditions. Or for the man that enjoys that perspective in a painting. It has been framed in a very modern frame to acclimate it to a new environment more seamlessly - 23 karat silvered gold.. It is signed lower right and has N.A. after the signature which means that he was a National Academician. The canvas measure 16 x 12 inches inside our framed dimensions. And its provenance is the : D. Wigmore Gallery in NYC and it has been in a private collection in Newtown, CT. Almost no other artist rivals his ability to capture cloth and different materials along with the expressions and wrinkles of the characters that grace his canvases. His depictions such as this one always capture the figures in discourse, lively and highly engaged. He never shied away from the challenge of capturing the hands of the figures or positions where the figures are foreshortened, he embraced difficult compositions such as this one where many objects are in different ranges of shadow and light. Moeller’s body of work tends to cycle in and out of favor with collecting trends in America. In the late 1980’s through the 1990’s there was a revival where prices increased to around and above the $100,000 mark for better compositions. In the recent market his works have been out of favor. Yet there are indications that a work like this will become sought after again as America moves back to its appreciation of this era of quality and ingenuity and as a checkpoint to contract how far we have come today with automation and technology. And the appreciation of artists such as Moeller and techniques we will not see achieved again in painting. The son of a decorative painter, Moeller served for three years as an apprentice under his father. He then studied painting in New York with E.M. Ward and Will Low and worked in Munich under the tutelage of Feodor Dietz and Frank Duveneck. Strapped for resources, he returned to New York in 1883 and devoted himself to decorative painting. The year of his return, he sent A Girl in a Snow-Storm to the National Academy; the following year, his work Puzzled gained him the Hallgarten Prize and election as an associate to the National Academy. Louis Charles Moeller was one of the best known and most popular of American genre painters. His work appeared in the exhibitions of the National Academy of Design in New York City, and they were acquired by a number of the leading collectors of contemporary art of the late nineteenth century. It is an aspect of American art that has been forgotten and even eclipsed in its own time by the bright, scintillating colorism of Impressionism.
  • Creator:
    Louis Charles Moeller (1855 - 1930)
  • Creation Year:
    1900
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 21 in (53.34 cm)Width: 17 in (43.18 cm)Depth: 2.5 in (6.35 cm)
  • Medium:
    Canvas,Oil
  • Movement & Style:
    American Realist
  • Period:
    1900-1909
  • Condition:
    Relined. Visually good, a super refined craquelure to surface that is not problematic. Varnished. Frame is new. Ready to hang.
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1413214386992

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