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Mountain Landscape - "New England Vista"
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)E. E. Cummings
United States (Cambridge, MA, 1894 - 1962, North Conway, NH)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Oil on composition board
Credit Line:
Gift of a friend of the Gallery
Accession Number:
1946.5
Location: Not currently on view
E.E. Cummings, both painter and poet, called those two pursuits his “twin obsessions.” Understanding the importance of visual impact and presentation, his unique style often scattered words and fragments of words across the page to punctuate emotion and meaning.
[Gallery label text]
This view, possibly of Mount Chocorua in New Hampshire, was probably exhibited at the Memorial Art Gallery in 1945. It was from the collection Dr. and Mrs. James Sibley Watson, who were patrons of both e.e.cummings and the Memorial Art Gallery.
About his own work, e.e.cummings wrote in 1940:
apparently I've found my style in painting
--it's NOT
painstakingly washed flat surfaces sans brushstrokes
fine camel's hair delineation-by-outline
building up a careful sum out of parts
it's chunking ahead with a big brush held loosely & loaded with paint.
Out of the crisscrossings, "mistakes",etc a picture Builds itself --chiefly INWARD,thru GREYS.
[Gallery label text]
[Gallery label text]
This view, possibly of Mount Chocorua in New Hampshire, was probably exhibited at the Memorial Art Gallery in 1945. It was from the collection Dr. and Mrs. James Sibley Watson, who were patrons of both e.e.cummings and the Memorial Art Gallery.
About his own work, e.e.cummings wrote in 1940:
apparently I've found my style in painting
--it's NOT
painstakingly washed flat surfaces sans brushstrokes
fine camel's hair delineation-by-outline
building up a careful sum out of parts
it's chunking ahead with a big brush held loosely & loaded with paint.
Out of the crisscrossings, "mistakes",etc a picture Builds itself --chiefly INWARD,thru GREYS.
[Gallery label text]
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Selections from the Permanent Collection Summer 1975
- Collectors' Choice July-August 1978
- e.e.cummings in the Memorial Art Gallery Collections- The Voice of your Eyes Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester 3/9/2005 - 5/22/2005
- Auditorium Corridor: E.E. Cummings' Mountain Landscape 4/23/2009 - 6/30/2009
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Title: Of Paintings and Nature and Poetic E.E. Cummings. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, NY: Rochester Print Co. Issue Date: February 21, 1954.
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