Joseph Pollet, American, (1897 -1979) 
Framed 23"T X 26.75"W:  Image 16"T X 20"W

On offer striking naturalistic American Impressionist landscape by noted artist Joseph Pollet with mallard ducks taking off over a marsh.  Movement and light glinting off the water are captured in confident, gestural brush strokes 

A beautiful example of a fascinating, prolific American artists' work.  Original period frame, c. 1930s/1940s.  Signed lower left, further documentation on verso.   

Condition:   Excellent estate condition -- could stand a cleaning but in no way detracts.  

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About Joesph Pollet

MoJoseph Pollet was an important member of the Woodstock Art Colony. He emigrated to NYC in 1911 from Albbruck, Germany (born in 1897) and at age 21 had a promising career as an advertising copywriter. While working, he studied painting and his landscapes were immediately successful in NYC galleries. He studied at the Art Student's League with John Sloan, Robert Henri, and Homer Boss. From 1954-61, he lived in Paris and Italy. In 1971 , a fire destroyed 100-150 paintings of his paintings in his Greenwich Village studio.
Pollet exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery, Chicago Art Institute, MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, Pennsylvania Academy, Los Angeles County Museum, and Carnegie International.

​Mr. Pollet's works are owned by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Newark Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and others.  During the 1920's and later, he had one‐man shows at the Whitney, the Downtown Gallery, the Julien Levy Gallery and the Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, where he had three such exhibitions in the 1960's.  Pollet was also part of two exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the 1930s. 

The artist was noted for his landscapes and portraits, but he was very much a painter who defied permanent categorization. A critic who reviewed an exhibition of Pollet painting in 1990 wrote in The New York Times, “Pollet has gone through some rather strange fluxes since the days when his vigorous impasto style admitted direct indebtedness to Vincent Van Gogh.” 

Mr. Pollet studied under John Sloan at the Art Students League. He received an honorable mention in the Carnegie International Exhibition in 1929 and won a Guggenheim scholarship in 1931.

Read his obituary in the New York Times. 

Sources:  (New York Times May 29, 1979), (Falk, P. Who Was Who in American Art)

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