FRANK VINCENT DUMOND (American 1865-1951). The Brook (A Tributary of the Margaree River, Nova Scotia). Oil on canvas. 24...

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FRANK VINCENT DUMOND (American 1865-1951)
The Brook (A Tributary of the Margaree River, Nova Scotia)
Oil on canvas
24in. x 30in.
Signed lower left; title and exhibition history inscribed on stretcher

The accomplished artist and leader of the Impressionist and Tonalist enclave in Old Lyme, Connecticut, Frank DuMond studied at academies in New York and Paris. In the last three decades of his life, DuMond spent nearly every summer in the Margaree River Valley on Cape Breton. An accomplished fly fisherman, he developed a great love for this region and frequently depicted it in his paintings and sketches.

Provenance: Milch Galleries, New York
Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT
acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited: Milch Galleries, New York
"Picture of the Month" at Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, September 1941



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