A Wild Grouse
by A. Lassell Ripley (1896–1969)18¾ x 28½ inches (sight size)
Signed lower right: A. Lassell Ripley ©
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Provenance
The Sportsman’s Gallery, New York, New York
Private collection, Brookline, Massachusetts
Sale, Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts, November 15, 2020, lot 143, from above
Private collection, New York, New York, acquired from above
Artist Biography
Born in 1896 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, Aiden Lassell Ripley developed an affinity for the outdoors at a young age. His subject matter was deeply influenced by his early experience as a sportsman in the wooded landscape surrounding his childhood home. Ripley attended The School of the Boston Museum of Art, where he trained under Phillip Hale and, in 1924, was awarded a Paige Traveling Fellowship, which allowed him to study art in France, Holland and North Africa. It was in these countries that he honed his painting skills and learned to paint in the plein-air style of