Nathaniel Dirk c.1940 painting WPA Gloucester Rockport MA artist Leger pupil

Description: Beautiful c.1940 cubist landscape by American artist, Nathaniel Dirk (1995-1961). Watercolor on heavy wove paper, image measures 14 x 18 inches; sheet measures 15 x 20 inches; original double-matte measures 22 x 28 inches. Signed lower right. Note on verso reads: Rock-bound Cove. "Dr. Stein" in pencil, upper left verso. Hinged with old tape: sheet is not glued in margins. Unframed. Birth place: Brooklyn, NYDeath place: NYCAddresses: NYC/Rockport, MAProfession: Painter, teacher, writer, lecturerStudied: AIC; ASL, with Max Weber, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Boardman Robinson, 1919-22; in Paris with F. Leger.Exhibited: S.Indp.A., 1929, 1942; CI, 1930, 1931; AIC, 1932-1934, 1936, 1938, 1942; BM, 1935-1941; WMAA, 1928-50; CGA, 1934; NCFA, 1941; Audubon A., 1945, 1959 (prizes in 1948, 1954, 1958); MMA, 1941; Wellons Gal., 1956 (solo); Lyman Allyn Mus., New London, CT; ASL, 1942, 1944, 1947-51, 1962 (memorial exh.)Member: ASL; Audubon A.; Independent Artists; Cape Ann Soc. A. (Pres.); Rockport AA; Artists Equity (Dir.)Work: WMAA; BM.Comments: Primarily known as a watercolorist, painting in a style similar to, but not as abstract, as that of John Marin. Teacher: ASL, 1939, 1947-51, 1957-60 (lecturer on color); Ralph Pearson Gloucester School; Contemporary Art Center, NYC (under the WPA).Sources: WW47; WW59; Artists of the Rockport Art Association (1946). Nathaniel Dirk was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1895 and studied at the Art Students League of New York and the Art Institute of Chicago. His teachers at the League were Max Weber, Boardman Robinson, and Kenneth Hayes Miller. He taught at the League in the summer of 1939 and from 1947 through 1951. He gave his lectures on “Color for the Artist” at the League from 1957 through 1960 and was to have given the same series in 1961 but died at age sixty-five on January 3, 1961. In 1937 and 1938, he was a member of the Board of Control of the Art Students League. His paintings are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum. He was a frequent exhibitor at the Whitney, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Academy of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Audubon Artists and the Carnegie Institute. His work has also been shown at the Metropolitan Museum, the National Gallery and the Corcoran Gallery of Washington, D.C., at the Museum of Modern Art, the Minneapolis Museum, The Pennsylvania Academy and at other places. He won three prizes at the annual exhibitions of the Audubon Artists. Between 1927 and 1957 he had thirteen one-man exhibitions in New York. He was a Director of Artists Equity and President of the Cape Ann Society of Modern Art. He was formerly Director of the Contemporary Art Center the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association, New York City.

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