GUY ROSE (1867-1925)
4. The Distant Town
Oil on canvas
24 x 29 inches
32 x 37 inches framed
Provenance:
The Distant Town
is a pure impressionist masterwork by American born artist, Guy Rose. He spent
the years 1904 to 1912 in France, roaming the villages and countryside to find
the perfect picturesque painting locations. The hilltop vista from where The
Distant Town was painted, fits this criteria perfectly. Rose was able to
perfectly capture the beauty and tranquillity of this idyllic French country
scene.
Guy Rose produced some of his finest paintings during his years in France. It
was in Giverny that the Roses resided in a quaint little home, and it was here
that they were situated in close proximity to the famous Claude Monet. Guy Rose was associated
with and certainly influenced by his good friend and painting companion,
Frederick Frieseke (1874-1939). They played tennis together, dined and even
shared the same models on painting excursions. Rose painted Frieseke’s wife
Sarah, no fewer than three times. Rose was also close friends of artists Alson
Clark (1876-1949), Richard Miller (1875-1943) and Lawton Parker (1868-1939).
This entire group of talented artists did not know at the time, that they would
have a profound influence on generations of artists. “The Giverny Group” would
be recognized in history as some of the finest impressionist painters of the
twentieth-century.
Works held: Bowers Museum, Santa Ana; Cleveland Museum; Los Angeles County
Museum of Art; Oakland Museum; San Diego Museum; Fleischer Collection, Arizona;
The Irvine Museum; The Rose Collection, California; Terra Museum, Giverny. The Redfern Gallery 1540 South Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651 T:
(949) 497-3356 F: (949) 497-1324
mail@redferngallery.com at the Montage Resort and Spa 30801 South Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651 T:
(949) 715-6193
Private Collection, Christie’s 1996, Redfern
Gallery, Private Collection 1996-2004, Redfern Gallery