"Dusk in Gloucester Harbor," signed
l/r,
8" x 6.5" sight, 16"
x 14"
frame.
About the Painting: Very good. We have not opened the frame,
but the mat should be replaced. The frame
molding is quite nice.
About the Artist: John Cuthbert Hare, 1908-1978, was a watercolorist
who painted boats, seascapes and harbor scenes.
He was primarily associated New England,
especially Cape Cod, Massachusetts where
he spent his summers from 1938 to 1965. However,
he was in Florida where he was a member of
the St. Augustine Art Association, and other
locations on the East Coast.
It is likely Hare was born in New York
City.
He first studied commercial art in
Brooklyn
at the Pratt Institute and also studied
at
the Art Students League in Manhattan.
He
worked for Hearst newspapers corporation,
and in 1933 married. In the next few
years,
he and his wife traveled extensively,
camping
and painting and exhibiting his work
in galleries.
In 1935, they visited St. Augustine
and an
exhibition of his watercolors was held
there
in the old bank building by the cathedral.
In Provincetown, they also exhibited
paintings
that Hare had completed in Florida.
The couple liked St. Augustine so well
that
they returned two years later, joined
the
Art Association, and set up a studio
at 33
Aviles Street.
About 1938, the Hares, attracted to
the rolling
farmland, moved to Amhurst, Massachusetts.
He also painted at Gloucester, and
from 1967
to 1977, they lived at Yarmouthport,
and
in 1977, moved to Palm Beach, Florida
where
he died three years later.
His work is in the collections of the
Lowe
Art Museum and the Lightner Museum
in Florida,
and the Smith College Museum of Art
in Massachusetts.
Sources:
http://www.rubylane.com/shops/northamericanrarities/item/Kit-30
Robert Torchia, The Lost Colony, The
Artists
of St. Augustine, 1930 to 1950
$ 625.00
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