A charming impressionist pastoral scene depicting Spring in Tuckamony Farm Solebury PA Pleasant, Pennsylvania. This piece is executed in an intimate yet energetic manner. Christopher is known for capturing the beauty and simplicity of an earlier time in the 20th century: old New York, families working together, villages, farms, and friends taking walks together. Many are depicted in recognizable historical settings, and this piece is an excellent example of this, as he captures a calm home surrounding blossoms and greenery, evoking a peaceful countryside setting. Amidst lush trees with thick, expressive brushstrokes in vivid greens, yellows, oranges, pinks, and purples, hinting at the blooming flowers. The sky is light blue rendered in soft pastels, contributing to a dreamy, atmospheric quality. Colors are lively, and the overall work conveys tranquility, natural beauty, and the charm of countryside life. This piece is signed by the artist lower right and titled on verso, it comes housed in a vintage style gold tone wood frame with hanging wire on verso ready to be displayed.
Art measures 5 x 7 inches
Frame measures 7 x 9 inches
Christopher Willett, was born in 1959 in Bucks County Pennsylvania, and is mostly known for his landscape paintings. Willett, a painter with a family lineage dating back to ancestors arriving in this country aboard the Mayflower and Victory, settling Plymouth. Some recorded family history finds a Willett ancestor, Augustine Willett who was a Captain of historic repute under the command of General Washington. Additionally, in more recent history, Willett artisans became renowned for their designs and beautiful works in stained glass that adorn the Bryn Athen Cathedral- for the Pit Cairn estate. Willett, is also a descendant of the renowned painter Edward Hicks, known for his work entitled Peaceable Kingdom, and whom after the Hicks Art Center of Bucks County Community College was named. From early childhood to the present, Christopher has carried a natural talent on the tradition in the arts, and mainly working as a full-time painter in the New Hope, Bucks County using the mediums of oil on board or canvas, and watercolor in an Impressionist style. His paintings are found in several corporate collections, and in many private collections, along with many works being exhibited at shows and galleries like Phillips Mill Art Show, Village Artworks, Lahaska, PA Riverside Fine Art, Lambertville, NJ Gallery Three, Doylestown, PA.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Pensilvania; Private Collection Manhattan, New York; Lilac Gallery Collection. The piece will be stamped from Lilac Gallery on its verso.