American Impressionist New England Coastal Paintings By NY Artist
Louise KampUSD $250.00
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For sale is one of several original oil paintings by the prolific Woodstock Artist and American Impressionist painter Louise M Kamp (1867 - 1959). Please see our eBay Store for further works by Louise Kamp.
Provenance: Germantown NY; From a dealer collection in Louis Kamp paintings.
The two works in this sale are complimentary views of a seascape. Most likely New England coastal views near Gloucester or Rockport, Massachusetts where she painted later in her career.
The paintings are oil are card stock and are nearly identical with only one being signed (top painting in our pictures)
One is signed. The other is unsigned
Condition: Some scattered losses through skies. Surface dirt. Handling wear. Colorations are beautiful.
Measurements: Each 7” x 9”
Unframed
Louise Mary Kamp, née Wahl, was an artist, a mother and wife. Kamp studied at the New York Art Students League in Buffalo and in 1905-06, received a scholarship award for composition in color. Her work was singled out for reviews in the Buffalo Evening News. Louise M. Kamp also won accolades at the Art Students League in 1906 for her portrait paintings. Louise exhibited 91 paintings in the Society of Artists Rooms at the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY in 1910. Two years later, she displayed 73 works in the Historical Room of the Carnegie Library in Bradford, Pennsylvania.
She continued her education in Woodstock, NY with John Fabian Carlson, a founder of the Woodstock Artist Association and considered the finest landscape teacher in the United States during the 1930s
She painted domestic settings, children, gardens, the still life, the river and her own backyard. Her genre paintings, depictions of everyday scenes plus her early portraits embrace feminine warmth, a feeling of light and gentleness towards her subjects. A perennial observer, Kamp studied trees and flowers, the human figure and landscape in thousands of oil paintings and sketches throughout her 92 years.
Kamp has been called an American Impressionist. "I dashed the paint on thickly" she wrote in her diary of 1937. Her oil sketches completed outdoors, en plein aire, show loose, bold strokes and the sure suggestion of a leaf or limb. Americans embraced Impressionism in the late 19th century after the French, when the relaxed flowing strokes were no longer considered a revolutionary style of painting. Impressionism has since taken its place in the annals of American art. Kamp preferred the thick, loose style of her quick oil sketches. They captured the essence of a scene in high color and visible brushstrokes which fused to portray beauty and luminosity. The artist's larger works on canvas are polished and smooth with specific attention to realistic detail.
Louise was a quiet, unassuming woman. She didn't talk about her work…she just painted, all the time. The titles of some of her paintings offered a glimpse into the artists feelings about her subjects: Shine and Shadow, Glorious Autumn, The Dream Pool, After Glow. As the wife of Dr. John C. Kamp, Louise was able to afford help in the house and garden. Mrs. Kamp was still responsible for running the house and office while her physician husband worked long days helping patients who weren't always able to pay. Still she would get discouraged that certain days she couldn't paint, "too much time getting dinner" or "days like this…too much housework." Yet despite these restrictions she produced an astonishing body of work in her lifetime. In addition to the paintings sold during her career, she left nearly 3000 paintings upon her death ranging in size from as small as 2 by 3 inches to more than 2 by 3 feet. Her rapid oil sketches were done primarily on board. Kamp would work quickly, realizing, "I may never get this mood again." Her aim was to capture momentary light with bright color and quick strokes of the brush. Occasionally she would take photos for reference, but preferred the real thing.
The later work of Kamp's career was concentrated primarily on landscape and still life. Louise Kamp's subjects were the Catskill Mountains and Hudson River; waterways and winding roads around the countryside of Saugerties, Woodstock, Kingston and Palenville. "I am happy when I paint clouds." she wrote. From the Rondout Creek or Glasco on the Hudson River, to Saugerties Esopus Creek - "I love to paint water". She remarked how fine it was to sketch at Malden and described scenes after a day of sketching: "The Hudson River was a misty and beautiful faded-blue gray. The sky was a deep purple and yellow trees made contrast. The roof of the farm was a wet black." Her painting continued as she traveled and was drawn to waterfronts from Noank, Connecticut to Gloucester and Rockport, Massachusetts.
Provenance: Germantown NY; From a dealer collection in Louis Kamp paintings.
The two works in this sale are complimentary views of a seascape. Most likely New England coastal views near Gloucester or Rockport, Massachusetts where she painted later in her career.
The paintings are oil are card stock and are nearly identical with only one being signed (top painting in our pictures)
One is signed. The other is unsigned
Condition: Some scattered losses through skies. Surface dirt. Handling wear. Colorations are beautiful.
Measurements: Each 7” x 9”
Unframed
Louise Mary Kamp, née Wahl, was an artist, a mother and wife. Kamp studied at the New York Art Students League in Buffalo and in 1905-06, received a scholarship award for composition in color. Her work was singled out for reviews in the Buffalo Evening News. Louise M. Kamp also won accolades at the Art Students League in 1906 for her portrait paintings. Louise exhibited 91 paintings in the Society of Artists Rooms at the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY in 1910. Two years later, she displayed 73 works in the Historical Room of the Carnegie Library in Bradford, Pennsylvania.
She continued her education in Woodstock, NY with John Fabian Carlson, a founder of the Woodstock Artist Association and considered the finest landscape teacher in the United States during the 1930s
She painted domestic settings, children, gardens, the still life, the river and her own backyard. Her genre paintings, depictions of everyday scenes plus her early portraits embrace feminine warmth, a feeling of light and gentleness towards her subjects. A perennial observer, Kamp studied trees and flowers, the human figure and landscape in thousands of oil paintings and sketches throughout her 92 years.
Kamp has been called an American Impressionist. "I dashed the paint on thickly" she wrote in her diary of 1937. Her oil sketches completed outdoors, en plein aire, show loose, bold strokes and the sure suggestion of a leaf or limb. Americans embraced Impressionism in the late 19th century after the French, when the relaxed flowing strokes were no longer considered a revolutionary style of painting. Impressionism has since taken its place in the annals of American art. Kamp preferred the thick, loose style of her quick oil sketches. They captured the essence of a scene in high color and visible brushstrokes which fused to portray beauty and luminosity. The artist's larger works on canvas are polished and smooth with specific attention to realistic detail.
Louise was a quiet, unassuming woman. She didn't talk about her work…she just painted, all the time. The titles of some of her paintings offered a glimpse into the artists feelings about her subjects: Shine and Shadow, Glorious Autumn, The Dream Pool, After Glow. As the wife of Dr. John C. Kamp, Louise was able to afford help in the house and garden. Mrs. Kamp was still responsible for running the house and office while her physician husband worked long days helping patients who weren't always able to pay. Still she would get discouraged that certain days she couldn't paint, "too much time getting dinner" or "days like this…too much housework." Yet despite these restrictions she produced an astonishing body of work in her lifetime. In addition to the paintings sold during her career, she left nearly 3000 paintings upon her death ranging in size from as small as 2 by 3 inches to more than 2 by 3 feet. Her rapid oil sketches were done primarily on board. Kamp would work quickly, realizing, "I may never get this mood again." Her aim was to capture momentary light with bright color and quick strokes of the brush. Occasionally she would take photos for reference, but preferred the real thing.
The later work of Kamp's career was concentrated primarily on landscape and still life. Louise Kamp's subjects were the Catskill Mountains and Hudson River; waterways and winding roads around the countryside of Saugerties, Woodstock, Kingston and Palenville. "I am happy when I paint clouds." she wrote. From the Rondout Creek or Glasco on the Hudson River, to Saugerties Esopus Creek - "I love to paint water". She remarked how fine it was to sketch at Malden and described scenes after a day of sketching: "The Hudson River was a misty and beautiful faded-blue gray. The sky was a deep purple and yellow trees made contrast. The roof of the farm was a wet black." Her painting continued as she traveled and was drawn to waterfronts from Noank, Connecticut to Gloucester and Rockport, Massachusetts.
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