Object Record
Images
Metadata
Collection |
Tri-Kappa |
Catalog Number |
1999.001.028 |
Title |
A Wintry Scene |
Artist |
Coats, Randolph |
Object Name |
painting |
Date |
1940 |
Description |
An original oil painting of a mountain scene in winter. A WINTRY SCENE Hoosier Salon 1941 Randolph LaSalie Coats (1891 - 1957) Oil on canvas No.11 |
Provenance |
Purchased from the Hoosier Salon in 1941. Not just another snow scene, but a splendid colored wintry vista, blending trees and water, snow and bare ground … in the foreground, a river runs between ice-fringed banks …in the background rise gently rounded hills, veiled in bluish haze, with sunlight striking chimney and rooftops of the two small houses on the slope ... this is an eminently pleasant picture, popular with laymen, and considered by art critics to have been one of the finest of the 1941 Hoosier Salon… born in Richmond, Indiana, September 14, 1891… first painting at age nine (a copy of a chromo found in the barn) …lived in Indianapolis… studied with William Eyden, Sr., at John Herron Art Institute and at the Cincinnati Art Academy …1922 went to Paris to study… received many awards for his small figures, his marines and landscapes (usually snow scenes), he was best known for his portraits… William H. Block, Elwood Haynes (pioneer auto manufacturer), Ernest Torrence (movie star), and Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks (wife of a former vice president of the United States), as well as governors Ralph Gates and Henry Schricker, had their portraits painted by Coats… executed the mural of the Taj Mahal for the Indiana Theater in Indianapolis… in 1976 he was elected to the Indiana Academy. |
Medium |
oil on canvas |
Dimensions |
H-29.5 W-39.5 inches |
Catalog date |
1999-12-10 |