Emile Gruppe (American, 1896-1978), Village in Snow

Oil on canvas, signed at lower right, with artist's copyright stamp to verso, retaining Godel & Co. gallery label to verso, presented in a period-appropriate gilt frame with gallery plaque.

Stretcher size 18 x 20 in.; Frame dimensions 25 1/4 x 27 1/4 in.

Godel & Co. Inc., Bedford, New York
Private Collection, Acquired from the above in 1991
Davies Fine Art, New Canaan, Connecticut
Acquired from the above, November 2007

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, the son of 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.

Very good estate condition; no evidence of restoration or retouch visible under UV light.