American Masters | Regionalism | Fine Prints

American Masters | Regionalism | Fine Prints

Kiechel Fine Art established in 1986, specializes in 19th and 20th century American art, Old Master and Contemporary prints as well as regional and national Contemporary art. We represent the estates of several notable artists and private family trusts. Our gallery offers the highest level of services including art consultation and certified appraisal. We have placed work in corporate, private and museum collections worldwide. Working with private and corporate clients, we strive to build collections with current and future value.

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front cover image: The Young Artist (Self Portrait of Grant Wood) Grant Wood, c. 1926, Oil on panel, 11.00 x 14.00 inches back cover image: Relief Study for the Painting ‘Trails to the Stream’ Roger Medearis, 1991, Ceramic, 10.00 x 15.00 inches left: A Murder of Crows, Keith Jacobshagen, 2020, Oil on canvas, 30.00 x 30.00 inches

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Rainbow and View of Madison, John Steuart Curry, 1937, Oil on panel, 36.50 x 48.00 inches

American Regionalists above Cowboy at the Well, Thomas Hart Benton, 1946, Oil, 7.00 x 7.00 inches

This painting is a preliminary study for Open Country, painted in 1952, which is in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. I believe that the imagery of these paintings was inspired by a trip that Benton took through the plains country of Nebraska, the Dakotas, Eastern Wyoming and Montana. This painting is rather extraordinary in its detail and its evocation of the brilliant colors and clear atmosphere of the American west. It has all the qualities of the final painting but on a smaller scale. - Dr. Henry Adams, Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History Contact Kiechel Fine Art for full letter & details.

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above Keith Farm (double-sided work) Thomas Hart Benton 1951, Oil, 8.33 x 10.88 inches verso details Verso grisaille of Martha’s Vineyard Annotated on verso ‘this belongs to Jessie’

The recto of the panel is a color study for the painting Keith Farm, 1951. The verso of the panel is a grisaille study for another well-known painting

by Benton, View of Menemsha, 1954, which was commissioned from Benton by David Mavity who had homes in Martha’s Vineyard and Greenwich, CT. The painting is one of those that Benton had set aside for his daughter, Jessie.

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American Regionalists above Evening Star, Dale Nichols, 1984, Oil on canvas, 30.00 x 40.00 inches verso details “I could not paint the hills nor flowers nor trees without reflecting me and Me in these I could not paint the snow nor skies nor seas unless I gave to each what God decrees. credo of Dale Nichols” right The Evening Star and the White Seabird, Alaska, Dale Nichols, 1988, Oil on canvas, 30.00 x 40.00 inches

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above Old Fashioned Sleigh Ride, Dale Nichols, 1983, Oil on canvas, 30.00 x 40.00 inches verso details “Old Fashioned Sleigh Ride” Hear the sledges with the bells silver bells!

What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night!

BELLS by Edgar Allan Poe left side Cowboys of the World (India), Dale Nichols, 1951, Oil on panel, 14.00 x 16.00 inches Cowboys of the World (Tibet), Dale Nichols, 1951, Oil on panel, 14.00 x 16.00 inches Cover for The Morrell Magazine March 1951 issue, original paintings commissioned by John Morrell & Co. for use on calendar.

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above & front cover The Young Artist (Self Portrait of Grant Wood) Grant Wood, c. 1926, Oil on panel, 11.00 x 14.00 inches

This is a particularly wonderful example of Wood’s early work, notable for the authority and freshness of its skilled brushwork, its impressively well-conceived composition, and its unusually interesting subject. Grant Wood constructed a home for himself, his mother, and his sister in Kenwood Park, which was then an independent township and was later absorbed into the city of Cedar Rapids. Kenwood Hill, the location of this painting, is quite nearby this residence. Kenwood Hill overlooks the Cedar River, whose curve is visible just above the head of the ‘young artist.’ Wood made other plein air paintings in this period which show the river and the river valley from various angles. In short, the subject matter of this painting fits very neatly with Wood’s other landscape work of this period. Fine debris trapped in the paint makes it clear that this painting was executed outdoors. It was done directly in ‘alla prima’ technique directly on the board surface. The current frame is clearly the original frame, selected by Grant Wood.

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Robert Riggs (1896-1970)

above The Fixed Fight, Robert Riggs, Charcoal on paper, 18.00 x 24.00 inches

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Roger Medearis (1920-2001)

top row Country Singer (Hand-colored lithograph), Roger Medearis, 1995, Hand-colored lithograph, 14.00 x 20.00 inches

bottom row

Barnyard Gate, Roger Medearis, 1990, Lithograph, 10.25 x 16.00 inches

The Secret, Roger Medearis, Lithograph, 9.00 x 13.50 inches

Native Oak, Roger Medearis, 1981, Lithograph, 16.00 x 24.00 inches

Family Reunion, Roger Medearis, 1990, Lithograph, 14.00 x 20.00 inches

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Wild Roses, Roger Medearis, 1989, Lithograph, 10.00 x 14.50 inches

Summer Pastoral, Roger Medearis, 1984, Painted bronze, 9.75 x 11.75 inches

top row Wreck of the ‘Ol ‘97, Thomas Hart Benton, 1944, Lithograph, 10.25 x 15.00 inches The Corral, Thomas Hart Benton, 1949, Lithograph, 9.75 x 13.25 inches Wreck of the Ole ‘97, John McCrady, c. 1940, Lithograph, 10.50 x 14.62 inches

center row Blue Valley Fox Hunt, John S. de Martelly, 1939, Lithograph, 12.75 x 16.50 inches Antelope Shooting, George Catlin, c. 1845, Color lithograph, 12.25 x 17.75 inches Sunlight Through Clouds, Luigi Lucioni, Etching, 6.75 x 9.75 inches

bottom row Making Camp, Thomas Hart Benton, 1972, Lithograph, 16.25 x 19.00 inches Haying, Georges Schreiber, c. 1945, Lithograph, 9.00 x 13.50 inches Kansas River, Birger Sandzen, Lithograph, 10.00 x 14.00 inches

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left Grand Canal, America (Electrical Building at Night), Gerald Geerlings, 1933, Drypoint, 11.88 x 8.88 inches Approaching Storm, Grant Wood, 1940, Lithograph, 11.75 x 8.75 inches

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