Lot 409
Original oil painting on canvas titled Marine Street by celebrated American artist Emmett John Fritz (1917-1995). This original oil painting on canvas shows a streetscape. It is signed, mounted and framed, and measures 23 inches by 28 inches.
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Provenance:
- This was acquired from a Virginia estate Dimensions:
- 23 inches X 28 inches Artist Name:
- EMMETT JOHN FRITZ Medium:
- Oil on Board Painting Notes:
- About the Artist: Emmett John Fritz was born on October 13, 1917 in Kansas City, Missouri. He studied art at Pratt Institute in New York graduating in 1937. Fritz worked with Norman Rockwell for a brief period, becoming a known magazine and newspaper cartoonist for a comic strip called Roxie West, as well as an illustrator, before a move to Florida in 1950. In Florida, Fritz discovered the city of St. Augustine. He also became committed to serious easel painting and watercolor at this time. His primary subjects were the St. Augustine landscape, capturing scenes of everyday life in the quaint walled city, and the architecture of the city. Although he had an indoor studio on St. George Street, Fritz preferred painting outside on city sidewalks and in a swift manner to capture the great vivacity of the bustling city. As an integral member of the city of St. Augustine, he is known to have loved people, which you can see because people loved Emmett said Andrew Kenneth Gay, a local art gallery owner in a St. Augustine Record article entitled, The Great Search for Emmett Fritz, in September of 2002. Gay continued, "The wonderful thing about Emmett was not just the paintings, but the stories that he told that went with them." In 2004, the anniversary of his death in 1995 in St. Augustine, a group of townspeople organized the Emmett Fritz Memorial Exhibition to celebrate Fritzs leadership in making St. Augustine a popular tourist destination for art afficionados from all over the United States and abroad. The city of St. Augustine is a historic, coastal city founded in 1565 with a definite Spanish heritage. Much of Fritzs artwork depicts the colorful, traditional Spanish architecture of the walled city as a framework for the temperamental weather changes of a semi- tropical environment that often transform the look of the city. Like many artists who visited or moved to St. Augustine between the 1930s and 1950s, Fritz painted the many incarnations of Americas oldest city in hundreds of colorful and romantic images. Fritz adopted and perfected an impressionistic, painterly style that enabled him to capture the light and movement reflected in his artwork through his distinctive application of impasto and vigorous brushstroke. In Key Shrimper, ca. 1965, Fritz captures movement in the scene. A sense of motion can be observed in the way he paints the water, clouds, and even the palm tree--the palm swaying from the breeze, the clouds are swiftly passing by, the boat is rocked gently by the tide, and the water ripples and shines, reflecting the dazzling Florida sunlight with his characteristic use of white pigment. This highly painterly style paired with his use of rich colors throughout his painting exhibits the vibrancy and life of the dockside. In contrast, View of Old Fort Castillo de San Marco is strikingly still, portraying a silent and serene topographical architecture. A master of light and shadow, Fritz depicts the intense midday light that enlivens color using a highly tinted palette. Saturated color is still seen in the flowers, and the shadows cast from the diagonal light through the ivy that guides the viewers eye in a circular motion throughout the painting. Fritz is arguably considered one of the most significant and popular painters of the St. Augustine and St. Johns County area. While capturing the beauty of the city and the surrounding areas, he became a well-known and beloved character of the greater St. Augustine area. His optimistic, colorful portrayals of the city, in all of its varied personalities, also suggests, to many critics of Florida painting, a sense of romantic melancholy and yearning. As a member of the St. Augustine Arts Club now known as the Arts Association of St. Augustine, he contributed profoundly to the growth of art in the area as he helped to stimulate a growing Florida School of Art. Information on the significance of Fritz and his prolific body of oil paintings and watercolors may be found in Robert Torcias The Lost Colony : Artists of St. Augustine 1930-1950 and in Reflections : Paintings of Florida 1865-1965 by Gary R. Libby. Condition:
- Excellent
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