ORIGINAL FREDERICK MONTAGUE CHARMAN (1894-1996) 'WORKING THE SAWMILL' WATERCOLOR PAINTING

This is really a wonderful original.  I have had a few Montague Charman paintings in the past as his estate came to market a few years ago by a Massachusetts dealer.  I owned some of his more common landscapes but this is the first painting I have owned by the artist that includes figures.  For those not familiar with the artist, I have included his biography below.  This is a wonderful unique scene of what I believe is men working the sawmill.  Based along a river with some mills in the background, you can see a man in the foreground inspecting the piece of lumber he picked up.  Other workers are in the river what looks like moving the lumber.  A wonderful large watercolor on paper measuring 21 x 29 inches.  Signed lower right.  Painting is in excellent condition with no signs of fading.  Great vibrant colors.  Double matte and gold frame are complimentary and ready to hang.  Frame measures 31 x 38 1/2 inches.  If new owner wants to reframe the painting or save on shipping happy to send painting unframed.  

For those not familiar with the artist his biography from askart reads: "Montague ('Monty') Charman is perhaps best known for his 37 year career as a professor at Syracuse University and by his many, many students. While maintaining his position as Professor of Design, he also had a dual career as an artist, traveling summers and on sabbatical, throughout Europe and the Caribbean, but most especially to the American West.  His large full folio size watercolors are filled with honesty and expression in bold color.  Along with his wife, Jessie Bone Charman, an accomplished artist in her own right, he recorded actual scenes of the land in flourishing style, often reminiscent of one of his idols, Charles Burchfield.  His works are in many Western collections. Monty's painting techniques are described in detail in his chapter of the book, Watercolor Demonstrated, Watson-Guptill publisher. Upon retirement from Syracuse in 1960, the Everson Museum had a retrospective exhibit for both Montague and Jessie.  They continued to travel and paint. Monty's art continued to evolve as he further develped his design concepts into abstractions.

Charman was born in London in 1894 and received his art and design education at the Hammersmith Art School.  He then went to work in 1918 with Sidney Haward, one of the foremost fabric designers in England until he was offered a position at Syracuse University in 1923. Charman exhibited widely including: Philadelphia Watercolor Club annually; Art Institute of Chicago; National Academy of Design; Pennsylvania of Fine Arts; Rochester Memorial Art Gallery; Albright Art Gallery, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (solo), Binghamton Museum of Art; Salt Lake City, Utah; Everson Museum of Art (solo retrospective with wife, Jessie in 1961). His works are in many museums, including: Everson Museum, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Municipal Collection of Salt Lake City, Syracuse, University, Brigham Young University (Utah), Brooks Memorial Museum (Tenn.) In November, 2007, there was a special exhibit of his work titled "Montague Charman- Master of Design" at the Turninstone Resort & Casino in Verona, NY near Syracuse. This exhibit was curated by Roy Mennell of 'Bradford Trust Fine Arts' who gave a gallery talk on the artist and discussed many of the artworks shown. "

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