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 Robertson Kirtland Mygatt (1862 - 1919) Evening on the Marshes, 1912 |
| . As a member of the Salmagundi club, Robertson Kirtland Mygatt was profoundly influenced by America’s leading Tonalistlandscape painters. Many of his horizontal landscapes were painted on panels taken from cigar boxes. Although Evening on the Marshes is slightly larger than the average cigar box measuring at 9” x 10 ½”, it may be an example of such an artwork. Every detail of the scene, illuminated by the setting sun, was meticulously and elegantly executed. The mood and mystery of the bucolic panorama is emphasized by the limited palette and subtle effects of light, characteristics he undoubtedly adopted from contemporary Tonalists who emerged in the 1890’s such as J. Francis Murphy (1853–1921), Dwight Tryon (1849–1925), and Henry Ward Ranger (1858–1916). Provenance: From private New York collection to gallery. Bibliography: David Cassidy and Sherry Babbitt, ed. Robertson Kirtland Mygatt: The Poetic Impulse (Philadelphia: Shwarz Gallery, 2005). www.shwarzgallery.com. |
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