Works Under $25,000
View of a Farmhouse Through Trees
24¾ x 30⅛ inches
Signed lower right: MULHAUPT
Provenance
Christie’s, New York, New York, November 30, 2005, lot 697
Private collection, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Related Work
February 1930, oil on canvas, 25 x 30 1/16 inches, signed lower left: MULHAUPT; Universityof Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
An East Gloucester Wharf, 1926, oil on canvas, 25 x 30 1/16 inches, signed lower left: MULHAUPT; Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Note
An artist associated with the Cape Ann School—alongside figures such as Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Fitz Hugh Lane, and Marsden Hartley—Frederick J. Mulhaupt pursued a methodical and exacting approach to his work. He created detailed sketches outdoors, which he later developed into finished studio paintings rather than completing them en plein air. Highly respected among his contemporaries, few equaled his command of complex compositional structures or his refined sensitivity to subtle variations in color.[1]
[1] Kristian Daves, Artists of Cape Ann: A 150 Year Tradition (Twin Lights Publishers, 2001), 64.
