Image measures 14.25″ x 20.5″. Two hunters flushing wood cock from pointing setter. Signed on back of painting, “Original watercolor by A. Lassell Ripley”. Vibrant bold colors with extraordinary detail. Framed and matted.
Aiden Lassell Ripley (1896-1969), watercolor
Woodcock by the Brook, c. 1948
oil on canvas, 26 1/2 by 39 1/2 in.
This is an oil version of the first image in watercolor. I have seen a print of it and it is really nice. It is one of Riley’s stronger oils. Ripley, and many other artists, worked up images from sketches to watercolor to oils. Often they painted versions of the same scene, too. Ripley often used multiple media in his creation process. His charcoals are very nice.
17.5″ x 27.5″. Hunter with short hair in brilliant fall plumage. Signed lower left. Dated 2010. Professionally framed behind museum quality plexiglass.
Chet Reneson (b.1934), watercolor.
Renseon can be an acquired taste for some. Occasionally, he does a stand out one like this. I like the chaos of colors he does in some paintings.
Measures 17.5″ x 27.5″. Signed lower right, 2011. Deer hunter in snowy forest trailing deer. This exact painting was used as a front cover illustration for Sept/Oct 2011 issue 5 of Grays Sporting Journal, and is accompanied with a copy of the issue. Professional framed and matted.
Chet Reneson (b.1934), watercolor.
This one is a copy of an Arthur Fuller Field and Stream cover. As deer hunting images go, it is a really good one. Reneson, and other artists, often imitate each other’s work. I am not sure what the motive is. Sometimes it seems they are testing themselves against someone like Homer or Benson. Maybe it is part of the learning curve. Creating a great painting is not easy.
JOHN CLYMER 1907-1989 QUAIL ROOTER
You have to wonder what that pointer is thinking. Likely that he will never live down being bested by a hog.
This is likely an illustration for a Saturday Evening Post story. Clymer did good iconic covers for them.
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