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 2 Vintage art posters of impressionist paintings.  ~   Suitable for framing.

Title, Artist, Creator:   

1. " To Pastures New, 1883 " by Sir James  Guthrie

Sir James Guthrie, to pastor's new, 1987, Portal Productions LTD, Corte Madera California, print number “GCS 538”, litho in America. It shows a girl leading a herd of gees on a dusty plane or with a city in the background.  Paper size is about 20” by 28”, print is trimmed to bleed, with no border.  Without the bottom title artwork size is about 17 ½ by 28 inches. 

~  it's a nice quality print. it does show some paper aging and spots especially on the back you can see them very faintly on this front but they look like they're part of the picture, but other than that it looks like a beautiful brightly colored. It's quite lovely and they're walking through a wheat field that was recently plowed.

You can see a city buildings off in the distance and some trees so she's definitely out in a field or if the ocean were on this side of her she might be on a beach. It reminds me of a beach a little bit and one of those long beaches.

Anyways it's lovely, vintage and in fairly good condition.  Ideal for framing. Scottish painter, Sir James Guthrie, who was a founder member of the “Glasgow Boys”. The Glasgow Boys identified themselves as young artists by claiming vociferously to be anti-establishment rejecting the older generation of artists, whom they called “Glue-Pots”. This group of young artists formed in the 1880’s and were extremely popular between the 1890’s and 1910. The Glasgow Boys consisted of several men, most of whom were trained in, or had strong ties to the city of Glasgow. However, although enjoying being looked upon as being one of this rebellious group of artists, Guthrie exhibited his first major picture at the Royal Academy in London and within twenty years of painting, became the president of the Royal Academy which was the pinnacle of the “Establishment”. In 1921 he was knighted. So despite the bravado of their anti-establishment stance in their early days, many of the Glasgow Boys became very rich painting, as one art reviewer put it, “fat gentlemen in civic robes”.

James Guthrie, aged 23 at the time, is an oil on canvas painting entitled To Pastures New, completed in 1882, and is of a goose girl driving her charges to pastures new.  The girl, who is about eight years of age, wearing, what look like, borrowed boots, which appear too large for her, wears a drab dress and a bright straw hat.  She, like a giant, marches into the picture shepherding her entrusted animals before her, all of whom fill the canvas with the background landscape taking only a secondary role in the composition.

About: James Guthrie, aged 23 at the time, painted an oil on canvas painting entitled To Pastures New, completed in 1882, and is of a goose girl driving her charges to pastures new. The girl, who is about eight years of age, wearing, what look like, borrowed boots, which appear too large for her, wears a drab dress and a bright straw hat. She, like a giant, marches into the picture shepherding her entrusted animals before her, all of whom fill the canvas with the background landscape taking only a secondary role in the composition. Scottish painter, Sir James Guthrie, who was a founder member of the “Glasgow Boys”. The Glasgow Boys identified themselves as young artists by claiming vociferously to be anti-establishment rejecting the older generation of artists, whom they called “Glue-Pots”. This group of young artists formed in the 1880’s and were extremely popular between the 1890’s and 1910. The Glasgow Boys consisted of several men, most of whom were trained in, or had strong ties to the city of Glasgow. However, although enjoying being looked upon as being one of this rebellious group of artists, Guthrie exhibited his first major picture at the Royal Academy in London and within twenty years of painting, became the president of the Royal Academy which was the pinnacle of the “Establishment”. In 1921 he was knighted. So despite the bravado of their anti-establishment stance in their early days, many of the Glasgow Boys became very rich painting, as one art reviewer put it, “fat gentlemen in civic robes”. (Source: My daily art display UK)

2. "Children playing on the beach, 1884" by Mary Cassatt.

National gallery of art Washington DC, 1987. Published and distributed by Portal publications LTD. Corte Madera California. It's print number GCS 532 litho in USA.

It features two young girls playing with sand buckets and shovels pails ones wearing a straw hat with a red bow and the other young girl in the front is more of a toddler.

Slight defects: There's a crease along the lower left corner that cuts through part of the painting and there's definitely edge wear and age spotting there's even some stains that the show up in the light you don't really see them they look like part of the painting when you're looking at a natural light, but under the camera light, I do see some age and paper spotting it.

This poster is a bleed to the edge poster print it measures 20" by 28". With a blue identity border on the bottom the actual art size is a little over 25 1/2 inches by 20". It would look lovely framed the colors are just really wonderful and dynamic you can see the brush strokes and the canvas texture even though it's a flat piece of paper. There are some edge wear but it's a lovely vintage art poster.

About: By the time Cassatt exhibited this painting at the eighth and final impressionist exhibition in 1886, her reputation as a painter of mothers and children had been well established. Critics had long commented on her ability to portray her subjects in a tender, yet unsentimental, way: "Oh, my God! those babies! How those portraits have made my flesh crawl, time and again!—A whole passel of English and French smearers has painted them in such stupid, pretentious poses! . . . For the first time, thanks to Mlle. Cassatt, I have seen effigies of enchanting tots, calm and bourgeois scenes, painted with an utterly charming sort of delicate tenderness." Cassatt's focus on a limited range of subjects allowed her to experiment with both the formal elements and painterly qualities of a composition. Her interest in Japanese prints and the process of printmaking can be seen in much of her work after 1883, including Children Playing on the Beach. In this work, Cassatt tightly cropped the scene, tilted the picture plane forward, and reduced the number of objects in the background to draw attention to the two little girls digging in the sand. Absorbed in their activity, they embody the naturalistic attitude prevalent in both art and literature of the time. Various shades of blue—from the deep electric blue of the dress and shoes to the soft, diffused blue of the ocean—are used throughout the work. Accents of white convey the presence of sunlight bouncing off the dresses, hats, and pails of the little girls. While particular attention is paid to the building of form through color and line in the foreground, the background is reduced to its essential elements through a series of thinly painted scumbles, leaving areas of the priming layer exposed. (Source: National Gallery of Art) 

Being sold as is, for the pair.  Both are authentically vintage and have some signs of age. 

Arrives rolled, shrink wrapped, mailed in tube/box, ready to display or frame.  Well packed.
 
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