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JONAS LIE Fishing Boats.
Oil on canvas, circa 1919. 555x665 mm; 22x26 inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto.
Provenance: Adamson/Duvannes Galleries, Los Angeles, with the label; private collection, Arizona; Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneer's, Milford, Connecticut, April 26, 2018, lot 12; private collection, New York.
Exhibited "Summer Exhibition of Paintings", Museum of History, Science and Art, Los Angeles, July 1-September 30, 1919, with the label.
Lie (1880-1940) was a Norwegian-born American painter and teacher. He often depicted the sea, channels, and ships with dramatic perspective and powerful use of color. Lie became known for colorful impressionistic scenes of harbors and coves, painted during the many summers he spent on the coasts of New England and Canada. Throughout his prolific career he painted brilliantly colored images of the rocky coves and harbors that identify the region's dramatic shoreline.
Lie painted a landscape mural in honor of his wife, Sonia, in the sanctuary of the First Unitarian Society of Plainfield, New Jersey in 1929. It is inscribed, "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills."
Paintings by Lie are held in public collections throughout the United States, including at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City; the Phoenix Art Museum; the San Diego Museum of Art; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the Detroit Institute of Arts.
