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Lot Essay
In In the High Canadian Rockies, Rose captures the ethereal quality and majesty of this rugged and dramatic landscape. Ilene S. Fort states: "Painted in the softly atmospheric manner of the artist's impressionist style, the bright snowy scene is rendered in tints of blue, pink and ivory. Rather than majestic, the mountains are delicate and fanciful, a lyrical and poetical impression of the scene." (I.S. Fort, American Art: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection, Los Angeles, California, 1991, p. 257)
Art critic Peyton Boswell stated in the Rose Memorial exhibition catalogue of 1926 that the painting is "one of the artist's master works, a poem of the peaks and clouds. As deep and rich of color as a piece of Limoges enamel, and with harmony as striking as it is entrancing. This magnificent picture is as good as anything Monet every painted. A fine flower of Impressionism, it is yet typically American, in spirit as well as theme." (as quoted in American Art, p. 257) In the High Canadian Rockies "was bought shortly after the exhibition for two thousand dollars, one of the highest prices then obtained for a painting by Rose." (American Art, p. 257)
This work is stamped with the Guy Rose estate stamp, signed by Ethel Rose and Earl Stendahl and dated 1926 (on the reverse).
This work will be include in the catalogue raisonné on the artist being prepared by Roy Rose and the Irvine Museum.
Art critic Peyton Boswell stated in the Rose Memorial exhibition catalogue of 1926 that the painting is "one of the artist's master works, a poem of the peaks and clouds. As deep and rich of color as a piece of Limoges enamel, and with harmony as striking as it is entrancing. This magnificent picture is as good as anything Monet every painted. A fine flower of Impressionism, it is yet typically American, in spirit as well as theme." (as quoted in American Art, p. 257) In the High Canadian Rockies "was bought shortly after the exhibition for two thousand dollars, one of the highest prices then obtained for a painting by Rose." (American Art, p. 257)
This work is stamped with the Guy Rose estate stamp, signed by Ethel Rose and Earl Stendahl and dated 1926 (on the reverse).
This work will be include in the catalogue raisonné on the artist being prepared by Roy Rose and the Irvine Museum.