Man in a Rowboat

Provenance

Private collection, Louisiana

Related Works 

Demonstration, 1950, acrylic polymer on board, 24 ¾ x 30 inches; New Britian Museum of Art, New Britian, Connecticut

Note

Gasser’s ability to transport the viewer to another time and world recalls the similar, inherent magic found in the work of artists such as Charles Burchfield and Edward Hopper, contemporaries working within the same mid-20th-century American context.[1] Gasser authored numerous influential books on painting and was deeply engaged in the art community, holding leadership roles in major institutions such as the American Watercolor Society and the National Academy of Design, where he won the Hallgarten Prize in 1943. He received more than one hundred awards and medals, with his success stemming from his dedication to painting and his refusal to idealize his subjects. Gasser’s work is held in dozens of institutional collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the New Britian Museum of Art.

[1] Louis Zona, Henry Gasser: Beyond City Limits (Butler Institute of Art, 2003).