Guarisco Gallery 2012

74 Wilson Irvine American, 1869-1936 The Tea Party with the Artist’s Daughter, Lois signed, o/c 32” x 30” (41-1/2” x 39-1/2” fr.) Wilson Irvine (American 1869-1936) Spring Thaw signed, o/c 25-1/4” x 30-1/4” (29-1/2” x 34-1/2” fr.) Wilson Henry Irvine, A.N.A. American Impressionist and Post-Impressionist, Founder of the Prismatic Style of Painting Among the first artists associated with the Old Lyme Art Colony in Connecticut, Wilson Irvine was one of the foremost landscape, still-life, and figurative painters in late-19 th and early-20 th century America. Irvine’s early works from his studio in Old Lyme reflect the autumn colors, earth tones, and short, feath- ered brushwork of the Connecticut Impressionist school. In 1923, he traveled to Europe, and upon his return painted Impressionist scenes in a richer, purer palette reminiscent of the Post-Impressionists. A true innovator, Irvine later pioneered the Prismatic School of painting that emphasized the play of light on the edges of objects through the use of spectral color.