Large New York Pastel DANIEL KOTZ \'Spring Pasture\',1911, 20\" x 25\"
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Large New York Pastel DANIEL KOTZ \'Spring Pasture\',1911, 20\" x 25\":
$750.00
ORIGINAL AND VINTAGE .............DANIEL KOTZ............\'SPRING PASTURE\', 1911, PASTEL ON CHARCOAL PAPER, 20\" x 25\".............This is a LARGE 20\" x 25\" Original and Vintage pastel on charcoal paper by the important New York painter Daniel Kotz, 1848-1933. Most of Kotz\' estate was holed up for years in a house in New Jersey and only came to light about 10 tears ago. We purchased about 15 pieces, including some by his wife, from the broker who found the estate. This image is one of the largest pastels in the group and shows trees along a pasture with a house in the distance. Signed in pencil at lower left and dated May 16, 1911. Fine condition. Unframed. Kotz has to have earned the distinction of being the least known master painter ever.
A legion of artists who were exposed to training in both Paris and London at the turn of the century came under the spell of the pastels of Whistler. And Kotz was no exception. This piece has the lightness and poetry of the master\'s touch and also the color harmony of Childe Hassam.The Biography Follows:Daniel Kotz, painter, etcher, and engraver, was born in a log cabin in South Bend, Indiana, near Notre Dame, on March 21, 1848. He spent much of his youth working on the family farm, where he enjoyed nature and the countryside around him. In his spare time, he discovered he had an interest in drawing and sketching his surroundings, including trees, open meadows, hayfields and more. On the advice of Dr. Buchtel, the family physician, he began to devote himself to studying art. While he traveled around the area of the St. Joseph River and the Lake Michigan area, his interest in landscapes grew, as did his ability to capture it on paper and canvas. Daniel went to Northwestern College in Napiersville, Illinois, where he wrote a column called \"Kotz\'s Mite\" for their monthly publication.In 1870, he went to Chicago where he studied under Henry F. Spread, and in 1875 he worked with Henry Arthur Elkins. Kotz was a charter member of the Chicago Art League. In the 1880s, he was commissioned by then Vice-President Schuyler Colfax, to execute a painting for his wife. Around 1890, he went to New York City, where he opened a studio. He was the cover story of the American Art Journal, March 22, 1890, and there in 1886 at the National Academy of Design, he exhibited the first painting he had ever exhibited in Chicago.In the 1890\'s, Daniel Kotz built a commodious studio and home on a New Jersey hillside at Park Ridge, overlooking the beautiful Pascack Valley with New York in the distance. He was one of the originators of the Salmagundi Club in New York around the turn of the century. He was a member of the Salmagundi Club, the Nanuet Painters, the American Artist Professional League, and the Beachcombers\' Club in Provincetown. He is known to have exhibited at the New York Etching Club, the National Academy of Design 1909, the Salmagundi Club, the Boston Art Club 1889, 1892, 1896, 1898, 1899, the Art Institute of Chicago 1889, 1894, 1896, 1897, 1904, 1905, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1917, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1895, 1898-1900, and the American Art Association. In May of 1948, Kotz\'s daughter, the Countess Eleanor Kotz Savorgnan Di Brazza, held an exhibition for two weeks of about 20 of her father\'s works. The exhibition was in Chicago and at the Progress Club, which is associated with the Art Institute of Chicago.
He found more and more of his favorite subject matter throughout the New England area, where he painted until his death in 1933. His contemporaries and friends included Thomas Eakins, J. Francis Murphy, Alexander Schilling, Max Bohm, John Noble, and George Inness.Daniel Kotz died in Park Ridge, New Jersey in 1933. As ever this is guaranteed 100% money back, to be as style=\"color: rgb(138, 0, 53);\">
Large New York Pastel DANIEL KOTZ \'Spring Pasture\',1911, 20\" x 25\":
$750.00