Rhubarb Farmers
Signed and dated lower left: A. Lassell Ripley 1949
Description
Farming and garden subjects were a notable favorite of Aiden Lassell RIpley’s and were painted by him year-round, thus serving as visual souvenirs of the cyclical nature of agricultural life. Rhubarb Farmers shows several figures harvesting the title perennial from a mature garden on a late summer day. The artist deftly uses passages of light green and white gouache to capture the warmth of the overhead sunlight falling on the mass of plants in the foreground and along the sides of old clapboard farmhouses in the background.
Provenance
Private collection, Connecticut
With Eldred’s Auction, Dennis, Massachusetts, April 9, 2016, Lot 865
To private collection, Duxbury, Massachusetts, April 2016 to present
Inscriptions
(verso of sheet in pencil) Cutting Rhubarb / © A. Lassell Ripley / 15 x 19 7/8
Labels
Exhibitions
Literature
Condition
Very good. The painting was conserved in 2016, during which old hinging tape along the margins on the paper’s verso was removed and the paper deacidified. There are very minor ‘dog-earing’ or folds at the extreme corners. The painting was also reframed in 2016 and is housed behind museum glass.
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Description
Farming and garden subjects were a notable favorite of Aiden Lassell RIpley’s and were painted by him year-round, thus serving as visual souvenirs of the cyclical nature of agricultural life. Rhubarb Farmers shows several figures harvesting the title perennial from a mature garden on a late summer day. The artist deftly uses passages of light green and white gouache to capture the warmth of the overhead sunlight falling on the mass of plants in the foreground and along the sides of old clapboard farmhouses in the background.
Provenance
Private collection, Connecticut
With Eldred’s Auction, Dennis, Massachusetts, April 9, 2016, Lot 865
To private collection, Duxbury, Massachusetts, April 2016 to present
Inscriptions
(verso of sheet in pencil) Cutting Rhubarb / © A. Lassell Ripley / 15 x 19 7/8
Labels
Exhibitions
Literature
Condition
Very good. The painting was conserved in 2016, during which old hinging tape along the margins on the paper’s verso was removed and the paper deacidified. There are very minor ‘dog-earing’ or folds at the extreme corners. The painting was also reframed in 2016 and is housed behind museum glass.
