?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
FREDERICK JUDD WAUGH (1861-1940) Running Surf.
Oil on canvas board, 1937. 770x1020 mm; 30⅜x40 inches. Signed lower right, and titled verso.
Provenance Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., New York (label). Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, New York, May 10-11, 1974, lot 233. Collection of Leslie C. Meyer, Greenville, South Carolina. Thence by descent. Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina, March 10, 2012, lot 549. Purchased at the above sale by current owner, Connecticut.
Born in New Jersey into a family of artists, Frederick Judd Waugh studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Thomas Eakins and Thomas Anshutz, and at the Académie Julian in Paris. After his training, Waugh worked in England as a professional artist and illustrator. He became known primarily as a marine painter and claimed British artists Henry Moore and Julius Olsson as his influences.
He returned to the United States in 1907, working in Kent, Connecticut before ultimately settling in Provincetown, Massachusetts. There has been speculation that Waugh was influenced by his younger contemporary Winslow Homer, as the two had painted on Monhegan Island in 1911 and 1914. However, in Reckoning with Winslow Homer: His Late Paintings and Their Influences (Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, 1990), Bruce Robinson notes that Waugh claimed to only become aware of Homer's work after returning to the United States in 1907, and by then he had already established a successful career painting in this style.
During his career, Waugh earned several prizes and distinctions in England and the United States, including becoming a full Academician of the National Academy in 1911.
