ROSS STERLING TURNER (American, 1847-1915). Still Life with Flowers and Glass, 1879. Oil on canvas. 19-1/2 x 24 inches (...

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ROSS STERLING TURNER (American, 1847-1915)
Still Life with Flowers and Glass, 1879
Oil on canvas
19-1/2 x 24 inches (49.5 x 61.0 cm)
Signed, dated and inscribed upper left: Ross Turner Venezia 1879
Foster Bros., Boston framer's label verso.

THE JEAN AND GRAHAM DEVOE WILLIFORD CHARITABLE TRUST
PROVENANCE:
Mystic Fine Art, New London, CT, Jan. 17, 2000, lot 210.
Ross Sterling Turner, who was born in Westport, New York and established himself in Boston, Massachusetts, received his artistic training in Europe. In 1876, he went initially to Paris and then to study at the Munich Academy, where he met fellow Americans William Merritt Chase and Frank Duveneck. Like them, Turner developed a thick, painterly style. He became close friends with Constantin Bolonachi, a Greek painter whose marine subject matter would influence Turner's work. About 1879, Turner traveled to Florence, Rome and Venice to study the Old Masters, and in Italy his work became increasingly concerned with the effects of light and color, as is fully evident in this jewel-hued still life he created in Venice-the city traditionally associated with the primacy of color over line. Indeed in the rich crimsons and vermilions it is hard not to see the influence of Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto.


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