Charting New Waters: Redefining Marine Painting Masterworks From the Burrichter/Kierlin Collection
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The catalog presents a premier private collection of 19th and 20th-century American and European paintings centering on water - lifes spiritual and essential element. The forty-three superb examples selection form the substantial holdings of Marry Burrichter and Robert Kierlin include some remarkably beautiful and rare works by leading artists of the Hudson River School French and American Impressionists and early modernists. Expanding the meaning of the word marine art from "oceanic" to "aquatic " Burrichter and Kierlin collect exceptional paintings that include any body of water from infinite oceans and coursing rivers to trickling stream tranquil lakes and inland pools. The collection spotlights some brilliant and rarely seen international art and cross-continental currents - most especially between the United States and France and England - that are illuminated in the excellent catalog entries written by some of Americas leading art historians university professors and museum curators. The introductory essay chronicles the altruistic vision of the collectors and explores some of the connections and influences that took place between American and European artists. In this richly illustrated book are early maritime images by James Buttersworth and Fitz Henry Lane; later marines by Alfred Bricher and Edward Moran; coastal scenes by Wassily Kandinsky and Claude Monet; figural works by Mary Cassatt and Theodore Robinson; important pictures by the less-well-know Duthch-trained artist William Frederick De Haas and the extraordinary African-American artist Robert Duncanson; and early career canvases by Vincent van Gogh and Piet Mondrian. This noteworthy selection to name only a few is representative of the larger Burrichter/Kierlin. Visitors to the visionary collection - on view in the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona Minnesota situated on the banks of the upper Mississippi River - will find surprising master pieces.
