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Lot Essay
This work will be included in the catalogue raisonné on the artist being prepared by Roy Rose and the Irvine Museum.
Giverny Hillside is an important early work that incorporates influences of impressionism and a tonalist palette reminiscent of James MacNeil Whistler into a gentle plein air scene. C.F. Sloane of the Los Angeles Herald described a similar work by the artist of the same period: "One of these is a hillside lying in full sunlight, which intensifies the warm green of the early grass, and the other is a view of the church mentioned above. This is in a lower tone of color than the first, but is treated in the same broad manner and has the same clear feeling of atmosphere" (C.F. Sloane, "Mr. Rose's Paintings," Los Angeles Herald, 13 October 1891) As in the description, Giverny Hillside is of a similarly "lower tone of color" while it also maintains the hallmarks of the impressionistic brushstroke and plein air technique. Light breaks through the gray cloud-filled sky washing the rolling landscape in cool, atmospheric chiaroscuro. The direction that the artist was to follow is clearly demonstrated for us in Giverny Hillside.
Giverny Hillside is an important early work that incorporates influences of impressionism and a tonalist palette reminiscent of James MacNeil Whistler into a gentle plein air scene. C.F. Sloane of the Los Angeles Herald described a similar work by the artist of the same period: "One of these is a hillside lying in full sunlight, which intensifies the warm green of the early grass, and the other is a view of the church mentioned above. This is in a lower tone of color than the first, but is treated in the same broad manner and has the same clear feeling of atmosphere" (C.F. Sloane, "Mr. Rose's Paintings," Los Angeles Herald, 13 October 1891) As in the description, Giverny Hillside is of a similarly "lower tone of color" while it also maintains the hallmarks of the impressionistic brushstroke and plein air technique. Light breaks through the gray cloud-filled sky washing the rolling landscape in cool, atmospheric chiaroscuro. The direction that the artist was to follow is clearly demonstrated for us in Giverny Hillside.