Guarisco Gallery 2012

76 Edward Dufner highly regarded American Impressionist, Edward Dufner is best known for his bright and lively paintings of children in sunlit spring and summer landscapes. Dufner began his formal artistic training at the Art Students League in Buffalo, NewYork. In 1898, he moved to Paris and enrolled at the Académie Julien and the Académie Carmen, working with Jean Pierre Laurens and James McNeill Whistler. Much of Dufner’s work at this time reveals the influence of Whistler, with his use of deep browns, greens, and grays. Returning to the United States in 1903, Dufner settled in NewYork City where he developed his signature impressionistic style by lightening his palette and breaking the continuity of his brushstrokes. Summers spent on the New Jersey shore and in Boothbay Harbor, Maine—a burgeoning artist’s community—provided Dufner with the idyllic summer landscapes in which he would paint his sun-dappled subjects. Exhibitions: Salon de Société des Artistes, Paris; Nat. Academy of Design; Art Institute of Chicago; Penn. Academy of Fine Arts [ Museums: Brooklyn Museum of Art; Nat. Gallery of Art, D.C.; Nat. Academy of Design; Newark Museum of Art; New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum] ‘Evening Song’ combines the high-keyed palette, expressive use of color, and broken brushwork of the Impressionists and Post-Impres- sionists with the formal, balanced composition of the Academic tradition to create an overall impression of serenity and repose. The rocky shoreline, the granite outcropping on which the figures rest, and the towering conifers indicate the setting as Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Edward Dufner (American, 1871-1957) Evening Song signed, o/c 40” x 50” (46-1/4” x 56-1/4” fr.) A Exhibited: possibly National Academy of Design, New York, 1940, as no.65 Even Song