Alexis Jean Fournier Pastoral Landscape Oil Painting, 1911

Item Details

Alexis Jean Fournier (American, 1865-1948)
Untitled, 1911
Oil painting on canvas board
Signed to the lower right

An oil painting on canvas board of a pastoral landscape by listed artist Alexis Jean Fournier (American, 1865-1948), dated 1911. Depicted a field with bright, orange pumpkins and clusters of hay adjacent to a dark canopy of trees. This piece is signed to the lower right of the canvas board and is presented in a gilt-toned frame.

Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Alexis Jean Fournier was known as a Barbizon-style painter and one of the most prolific artists of the Arts and Crafts movement. He studied under Douglas Volk in the mid 1880s, after having no previous artistic training, and later attended Academie Julian in Paris. He was involved with the Roycroft artistic community, and also with artist colonies in Woodstock, New York; Provincetown, Massachusetts; and Brown County, Indiana. Fournier’s works are represented in the collections of numerous prestigious institutions, including Minnesota Museum of American Art; Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum; Burchfield-Penney Art Center; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; and Historical Society Of Pennsylvania.

Condition

- toning to varnish; wear to edges of frame; cracking to edges of frame; loss of gesso to corners of frame; craquelure present throughout painting; dust and accretions present to glass and frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; visible image measures 19.75" W x 12" H.

Item #

ITMG382689