THOMAS LORRAINE HUNT (1882 1938) Crashing Waves

Sale 2696 - Lot 51

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THOMAS LORRAINE HUNT (1882 - 1938)
Crashing Waves.

Gouache on wove paper mounted to card, 1909. 150x190 mm; 5⅞x7½ inches. Signed and dated lower left.

Provenance
Private collection, Ontario.

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Considered a California Impressionist, Thomas Lorraine Hunt was born in London, Canada and first studied painting under his father John Powell Hunt, then at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. During the early 1920's, he originally pursued a career as a real estate developer in California, but became active in local artist groups around Laguna Beach. He exhibited often around Southern California, winning several awards and honors, including the first prize at the California State Fair in 1923. Hunt's artwork is characterized by attention to sunlight and astute depiction of mood; he helped to establish Laguna Beach as an art colony for plein air artists. According to Bram Dijkstra, "Early Modernism in Southern California: Provincialism or Eccentricity?," On the Edge of America California Modernist Art (1996), Hunt was a forebearer of abstract expressionism, and "was able to turn the scratch, dab, and dash of the brush into a language of elemental equivalences between nature and emotions."