Cornish Village

Provenance

Sale, Christie’s, 1987
Pittsford Picture Framing
Mr. Fred Widding, Scottsdale, Arizona, October 1996, acquired from above

Literature

Tony Curtis, The Lyle Official Arts Review, (Galashiels, Scotland: Lyle Publications, 1986), 475.

Related Works

The Coast of Cornwall, 1914, oil on linen, 26 x 30 inches, signed lower right: Schofield; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sand Dunes near Lelant, Cornwall, England, 1905, oil on canvas, 38 x 48 inches, signed lower right: Schofield 05; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

Note

Schofield was born in Philadelphia and an important artist amongst the Pennsylvania Impressionists. In 1901, he moved to England where he painted numerous views of the Cornish coast, a subject also favored by George Gardner Symons, Paul Doughty, and Hayley Lever. Cornish Village exemplifies his innovative use of tightly cropped, photographic compositions that omit both the horizon and the foreground, creating a heightened sense of immediacy and dynamic abstraction.[1]

[1] Carol Lowrey, A Legacy of Art: Paintings and Sculptures by Artist Life Members of the National Arts Club (National Arts Club, 2007), 173.