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“Incoming Surf”

Description
Oil on canvas painting by the well known American marine artist, Josef M. Arentz. Most likely the scene is the rocky shore of Kennebunkport, Maine, an area where the artist frequently painted. Signed lower right and dated 1965. Condition: Good. Scattered light craquelure lower right quantrant. Artist copyright inscription verso. Original gold painted over wood period frame 32 by 46 inches.

Josef M. Arentz (1903-1969) was a renowned painter of maritime scenes, though he also painted numerous New England landscapes and portraits. He was born in Odendorf, Germany in 1903 and came to the United States in 1926, at the encouragement of an uncle living in Ohio. After painting stage scenery in Tiffin, Ohio, he eventually moved to Tampa, Florida, where he and a friend established the Florida Art Academy. He then moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where he accepted a position with the art department of the U. S. Printing and Lithograph Company, where he stayed until 1946.
During that time, he had a one-man show, and a work accepted for the Maryland Artists Exhibition earned an award from the Baltimore Museum of Art. Shortly thereafter he began reproducing some of his paintings for the New York publisher, David Ashley. A visit to Portland Head Light in Portland, Maine, inspired Arentz's move to Maine. For many years he maintained a summer gallery on Wharf Street in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	United States, Maine
Period:	1950-1979
Materials:	Oil paint on canvas
Condition:	Good. Scattered fine craquelure lower right quantrant
Creation Date:	1965
Styles / Movements:	Post Impressionism, Realism
Incollect Reference #:	288740