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ALSON CLARK(1876-1949)

$100,000

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<div>Alson Clark’s <em>Autumn, St. Lawrence River</em> (1916) is a celebration of seasonal color and painterly assurance, created during a highly productive summer spent along the St. Lawrence River. Painted at a moment of peak confidence, the work follows closely on the artist’s major success at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, where Clark filled an entire exhibition room with his paintings—an achievement that firmly established his reputation and momentum at this stage of his career. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition unfolds across a gently rolling landscape animated by the brilliance of early autumn. Trees blaze with saturated yellows, oranges, and soft reds, their foliage rendered in broken, impressionistic strokes against a clear, luminous blue sky. Clark’s confident handling of paint allows color to carry form, creating a sense of depth through overlapping passages. Small grazing cattle dot the hillside, providing scale and a quiet note of pastoral life that anchors the composition without interrupting its chromatic rhythm. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Clark was celebrated for his ability to fuse American landscape painting with lessons drawn from European Impressionism, and this work exemplifies that synthesis. The surface remains lively and tactile, with visible brushwork that conveys movement and atmosphere while maintaining compositional harmony. <em>Autumn, St. Lawrence River </em>reflects not only the artist’s mastery of color and light, but also the assured vision of a painter fully at ease with his subject, transforming a specific place and moment into a timeless expression of seasonal abundance. </div>
<div>Alson Clark’s <em>Autumn, St. Lawrence River</em> (1916) is a celebration of seasonal color and painterly assurance, created during a highly productive summer spent along the St. Lawrence River. Painted at a moment of peak confidence, the work follows closely on the artist’s major success at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, where Clark filled an entire exhibition room with his paintings—an achievement that firmly established his reputation and momentum at this stage of his career. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition unfolds across a gently rolling landscape animated by the brilliance of early autumn. Trees blaze with saturated yellows, oranges, and soft reds, their foliage rendered in broken, impressionistic strokes against a clear, luminous blue sky. Clark’s confident handling of paint allows color to carry form, creating a sense of depth through overlapping passages. Small grazing cattle dot the hillside, providing scale and a quiet note of pastoral life that anchors the composition without interrupting its chromatic rhythm. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Clark was celebrated for his ability to fuse American landscape painting with lessons drawn from European Impressionism, and this work exemplifies that synthesis. The surface remains lively and tactile, with visible brushwork that conveys movement and atmosphere while maintaining compositional harmony. <em>Autumn, St. Lawrence River </em>reflects not only the artist’s mastery of color and light, but also the assured vision of a painter fully at ease with his subject, transforming a specific place and moment into a timeless expression of seasonal abundance. </div> <div>Alson Clark’s <em>Autumn, St. Lawrence River</em> (1916) is a celebration of seasonal color and painterly assurance, created during a highly productive summer spent along the St. Lawrence River. Painted at a moment of peak confidence, the work follows closely on the artist’s major success at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, where Clark filled an entire exhibition room with his paintings—an achievement that firmly established his reputation and momentum at this stage of his career. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition unfolds across a gently rolling landscape animated by the brilliance of early autumn. Trees blaze with saturated yellows, oranges, and soft reds, their foliage rendered in broken, impressionistic strokes against a clear, luminous blue sky. Clark’s confident handling of paint allows color to carry form, creating a sense of depth through overlapping passages. Small grazing cattle dot the hillside, providing scale and a quiet note of pastoral life that anchors the composition without interrupting its chromatic rhythm. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Clark was celebrated for his ability to fuse American landscape painting with lessons drawn from European Impressionism, and this work exemplifies that synthesis. The surface remains lively and tactile, with visible brushwork that conveys movement and atmosphere while maintaining compositional harmony. <em>Autumn, St. Lawrence River </em>reflects not only the artist’s mastery of color and light, but also the assured vision of a painter fully at ease with his subject, transforming a specific place and moment into a timeless expression of seasonal abundance. </div> <div>Alson Clark’s <em>Autumn, St. Lawrence River</em> (1916) is a celebration of seasonal color and painterly assurance, created during a highly productive summer spent along the St. Lawrence River. Painted at a moment of peak confidence, the work follows closely on the artist’s major success at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, where Clark filled an entire exhibition room with his paintings—an achievement that firmly established his reputation and momentum at this stage of his career. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition unfolds across a gently rolling landscape animated by the brilliance of early autumn. Trees blaze with saturated yellows, oranges, and soft reds, their foliage rendered in broken, impressionistic strokes against a clear, luminous blue sky. Clark’s confident handling of paint allows color to carry form, creating a sense of depth through overlapping passages. Small grazing cattle dot the hillside, providing scale and a quiet note of pastoral life that anchors the composition without interrupting its chromatic rhythm. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Clark was celebrated for his ability to fuse American landscape painting with lessons drawn from European Impressionism, and this work exemplifies that synthesis. The surface remains lively and tactile, with visible brushwork that conveys movement and atmosphere while maintaining compositional harmony. <em>Autumn, St. Lawrence River </em>reflects not only the artist’s mastery of color and light, but also the assured vision of a painter fully at ease with his subject, transforming a specific place and moment into a timeless expression of seasonal abundance. </div> <div>Alson Clark’s <em>Autumn, St. Lawrence River</em> (1916) is a celebration of seasonal color and painterly assurance, created during a highly productive summer spent along the St. Lawrence River. Painted at a moment of peak confidence, the work follows closely on the artist’s major success at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, where Clark filled an entire exhibition room with his paintings—an achievement that firmly established his reputation and momentum at this stage of his career. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition unfolds across a gently rolling landscape animated by the brilliance of early autumn. Trees blaze with saturated yellows, oranges, and soft reds, their foliage rendered in broken, impressionistic strokes against a clear, luminous blue sky. Clark’s confident handling of paint allows color to carry form, creating a sense of depth through overlapping passages. Small grazing cattle dot the hillside, providing scale and a quiet note of pastoral life that anchors the composition without interrupting its chromatic rhythm. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Clark was celebrated for his ability to fuse American landscape painting with lessons drawn from European Impressionism, and this work exemplifies that synthesis. The surface remains lively and tactile, with visible brushwork that conveys movement and atmosphere while maintaining compositional harmony. <em>Autumn, St. Lawrence River </em>reflects not only the artist’s mastery of color and light, but also the assured vision of a painter fully at ease with his subject, transforming a specific place and moment into a timeless expression of seasonal abundance. </div> <div>Alson Clark’s <em>Autumn, St. Lawrence River</em> (1916) is a celebration of seasonal color and painterly assurance, created during a highly productive summer spent along the St. Lawrence River. Painted at a moment of peak confidence, the work follows closely on the artist’s major success at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, where Clark filled an entire exhibition room with his paintings—an achievement that firmly established his reputation and momentum at this stage of his career. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition unfolds across a gently rolling landscape animated by the brilliance of early autumn. Trees blaze with saturated yellows, oranges, and soft reds, their foliage rendered in broken, impressionistic strokes against a clear, luminous blue sky. Clark’s confident handling of paint allows color to carry form, creating a sense of depth through overlapping passages. Small grazing cattle dot the hillside, providing scale and a quiet note of pastoral life that anchors the composition without interrupting its chromatic rhythm. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Clark was celebrated for his ability to fuse American landscape painting with lessons drawn from European Impressionism, and this work exemplifies that synthesis. The surface remains lively and tactile, with visible brushwork that conveys movement and atmosphere while maintaining compositional harmony. <em>Autumn, St. Lawrence River </em>reflects not only the artist’s mastery of color and light, but also the assured vision of a painter fully at ease with his subject, transforming a specific place and moment into a timeless expression of seasonal abundance. </div> <div>Alson Clark’s <em>Autumn, St. Lawrence River</em> (1916) is a celebration of seasonal color and painterly assurance, created during a highly productive summer spent along the St. Lawrence River. Painted at a moment of peak confidence, the work follows closely on the artist’s major success at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, where Clark filled an entire exhibition room with his paintings—an achievement that firmly established his reputation and momentum at this stage of his career. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition unfolds across a gently rolling landscape animated by the brilliance of early autumn. Trees blaze with saturated yellows, oranges, and soft reds, their foliage rendered in broken, impressionistic strokes against a clear, luminous blue sky. Clark’s confident handling of paint allows color to carry form, creating a sense of depth through overlapping passages. Small grazing cattle dot the hillside, providing scale and a quiet note of pastoral life that anchors the composition without interrupting its chromatic rhythm. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Clark was celebrated for his ability to fuse American landscape painting with lessons drawn from European Impressionism, and this work exemplifies that synthesis. The surface remains lively and tactile, with visible brushwork that conveys movement and atmosphere while maintaining compositional harmony. <em>Autumn, St. Lawrence River </em>reflects not only the artist’s mastery of color and light, but also the assured vision of a painter fully at ease with his subject, transforming a specific place and moment into a timeless expression of seasonal abundance. </div> <div>Alson Clark’s <em>Autumn, St. Lawrence River</em> (1916) is a celebration of seasonal color and painterly assurance, created during a highly productive summer spent along the St. Lawrence River. Painted at a moment of peak confidence, the work follows closely on the artist’s major success at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, where Clark filled an entire exhibition room with his paintings—an achievement that firmly established his reputation and momentum at this stage of his career. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition unfolds across a gently rolling landscape animated by the brilliance of early autumn. Trees blaze with saturated yellows, oranges, and soft reds, their foliage rendered in broken, impressionistic strokes against a clear, luminous blue sky. Clark’s confident handling of paint allows color to carry form, creating a sense of depth through overlapping passages. Small grazing cattle dot the hillside, providing scale and a quiet note of pastoral life that anchors the composition without interrupting its chromatic rhythm. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Clark was celebrated for his ability to fuse American landscape painting with lessons drawn from European Impressionism, and this work exemplifies that synthesis. The surface remains lively and tactile, with visible brushwork that conveys movement and atmosphere while maintaining compositional harmony. <em>Autumn, St. Lawrence River </em>reflects not only the artist’s mastery of color and light, but also the assured vision of a painter fully at ease with his subject, transforming a specific place and moment into a timeless expression of seasonal abundance. </div>
Automne, fleuve Saint-Laurent191635 x 46 po(88,9 x 116,84 cm) huile sur panneau
Provenance
Succession de l'artiste
Petersen Galleries, Beverly Hills, Californie (sous le titre « October Bouquet »)
avec George Stern Fine Art, West Hollywood, Californie (sous le titre « October Bouquet »)
Heritage Auctions, Beverly Hills, Californie, Art Signature Auction, 20 mars 2012, lot 87023
Collection privée, Californie, acquise auprès de la source ci-dessus
Littérature
Jean Stern, Alson S. Clark, Beverly Hills, Californie, 1983, p. 79, n° 33 (illustré)
L'œuvre Autumn, St. Lawrence River (1916) d'Alson Clark est une célébration des couleurs saisonnières et de l'assurance picturale, créée au cours d'un été très productif passé le long du fleuve Saint-Laurent. Peinte à un moment où l'artiste était au sommet de sa confiance, cette œuvre fait suite au grand succès remporté par l'artiste à l'Exposition internationale Panama-Pacific, où Clark a rempli toute une salle d'exposition avec ses peintures, une réussite qui a fermement établi sa réputation et son élan à ce stade de sa carrière.


 


La composition se déploie sur un paysage légèrement vallonné, animé par la splendeur du début de l'automne. Les arbres resplendissent de jaunes saturés, d'oranges et de rouges doux, leur feuillage rendu par des traits impressionnistes brisés sur un ciel bleu clair et lumineux. La maîtrise confiante de la peinture par Clark permet à la couleur de porter la forme, créant une sensation de profondeur grâce à des passages qui se chevauchent. De petits bovins paissent sur le flanc de la colline, apportant une touche de vie pastorale qui ancrent la composition sans interrompre son rythme chromatique.





Clark était célèbre pour sa capacité à fusionner la peinture de paysage américaine avec les leçons tirées de l'impressionnisme européen, et cette œuvre illustre parfaitement cette synthèse. La surface reste vivante et tactile, avec des coups de pinceau visibles qui transmettent le mouvement et l'atmosphère tout en conservant l'harmonie de la composition. Automne, fleuve Saint-Laurent reflète non seulement la maîtrise de l'artiste en matière de couleur et de lumière, mais aussi la vision assurée d'un peintre parfaitement à l'aise avec son sujet, transformant un lieu et un moment spécifiques en une expression intemporelle de l'abondance saisonnière.
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