Emile Gruppe (American, 1896-1978), Smith Cove (Gloucester)

Oil on canvas, signed at lower right, inscribed to top stretcher, presented in a period frame.

Stretcher size 24 x 20 in.; Frame dimensions 30 1/2 x 26 1/4 in.

Purchased by the consignor's grandmother from the artist in Spring 1966 at Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Emile Albert Gruppé was an American painter best known for his vibrant impressionist landscapes and harbor scenes, particularly those of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Rockport, where he became a central figure in the Cape Ann art community. Born in Rochester, New York, into a family of artists, his father being landscape painter Charles P. Gruppé, he studied at the National Academy of Design in New York and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris.

In 1942, he and his mentor John Fabian Carlsen founded the Gruppe Summer School in Gloucester. He later added a second campus in the mountains of Vermont near the village of Jeffersonville in the town of Cambridge. Late in life he began spending time in Naples, Florida.
Gruppe exhibited extensively throughout his life and was honored with awards from The National Academy, The Salmagundi Club, North Shore Arts Association, Rockport Art Association and more.

Good estate condition.