The following description has been prepared entirely by the current
owner, Roberts S. Fastov, Esq., and, at the collector’s request, has not been
edited by Sloans & Kenyon
Note 1)
The following biographic materials are provided by Askart.com:
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Sharing
a common country of birth (Holland) and a love of color and boldness in their
paintings, Vincent Van Gogh and Anthony Thieme both endured emotional turmoil
and both ended their lives the same way Striking
out on his own at the age of seventeen, Johannes Thieme (he later changed his
first name to Anthony), became a fearless and adventurous traveler, linguist,
and avocational opera singer, who initially found employment as a scenic
backdrop painter in New York City and then in Boston. Along his artistic way
he studied oil painting, watercolor, printmaking, and drawing in Dusseldorf,
Naples, the Hague, and Paris. Anthony
Thieme and his wife, the former Lillian Beckett, met at the wedding of
Richard Recchia, and the noted sculptor suggested the tip of Cape Ann, the
quarry town of Rockport, as an ideal spot for the en plein air painter to set
up his easel. Thieme did so for many summers, and he never strayed very far
from his favorite subject, the angular, red-painted, lobster buoy-covered
“Motif #1” It
is estimated that Thieme painted about 400 canvases of the now famous fishing
shack (rebuilt after a terrific winter storm), usually with hunchbacked
fishermen standing at the wharf’s edge. The fishing boats, white-painted
cottages, and church steeples of the picturesque village were a continual
inspiration to Thieme, and gave an Old World, laid-back satisfaction to the
prolific artist who often could be quite curt and outspoken. However, his
admiring students were dismayed, when due to health issues, he was forced to
close the Thieme Summer School of Art, which had been under his direction
from 1929 to 1943. Anthony
Thieme received favorable criticism and artistic awards during his career,
including two in 1930: the Delano Prize from the New York Watercolor Club,
and the Athenaeum Prize at the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts; the Lucien
Powell Citizen Jury Prize from the Los Angeles Museum (1931); the Gold Medal
for the Best Painting in New England by the Contemporary Artists Association
(1944); and an award for the best marine painting at the Pan-American Art
Show in Miami (1949). Anthony and “Becky” wintered in St. Augustine, and
after he became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1935, they
visited Mexico and Guatemala where the hot, primary colors of the two
Spanish-language countries influenced his palette. Museums: Note 2) The foregoing
considerations, including the Thieme biographical information and the
following Thieme auction records, per Askart.com, warrant a conclusion that
the above presale estimate of $20,000-$35.000 for this beautiful view of Rockport,
Massachusetts is reasonable and justifiable:
Title/Subject: Rockport After The Rain Signed. Oil on canvas. 25 in. x 30 in. sold for
$18,000 on 05/07/2011
at Rockport
Art Association, Annual Auction,
Rockport, MA
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