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The Tree Cutters - Children Playing on a Fallen Tree - Saturday Evening Post?

Creator: Joe Bowler
Offered by: Robert Funk Fine Art

Description
This golden age of illustration work was most likely done for an interior story illustration for the Saturday Evening Post. Joe Bowler paints it in a loose but academically correct post-nabis style, The joyful children are depicted having a great time while balancing on a fallen tree. Each figure is deftly rendered in a pose that captures their bodies in a moment of high drama. The prostrated tree acts as a balancing beam as five participants contort themselves to stand upright. In the background, two men on a bench engaged in a chat. A woman stands on an ornate porch. Presumably, they are related to the frolicking kids. Bowler is ingenious in the way he directs a simple but complex narrative in a fluid and expressive way. He infuses his luscious palette with a desaturated robins egg blue sky and unexpected mustard yellows and warm dreamy grays. Unframed. The original color of the painting may vary slightly from monitor to monitor.

A few nicks, scuffs, and dents are only visible on close inspection. Otherwise presents well

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	United States, New York
Period:	1950-1979
Materials:	Casein on Gesso Panel
Condition:	Good. Good - A few nicks, scuffs, and dents only visible on close inspection. Otherwise presents well.
Creation Date:	1963
Styles / Movements:	Post Impressionism, Contemporary, Illustration
Incollect Reference #:	463433

Dimensions

W.	19.5 in;	H.	28.5 in;
W.	49.53 cm;	H.	72.39 cm;

Message from Seller:

You'll find an eclectic group of art works at Robert Funk Fine Art. 45 years of experience has shaped Director Robert Funk's multi-perspective approach to presenting art. As an undergrad in painting, he studied with great teachers such as first-generation abstract expressionist Robert Richenburg and hyper-realist painter Janet Fish. In Graduate School he worked with famed critic E.C. Goossen and went on to work as a Photographer, New York Advertising Art Director, and Art Collector.