Two Ohio Masters
APRIL 12 - MAY 6, 2024
Edmund Kuehn: German Village Vignettes, 1953-1994
Alan Gough: A Resonant Path, 1951-2024
FRONT COVER:
Alan Gough’Pod Procession’, 1973
Oil on canvas
12 x 18 inches
Signed lower left
$2,400
Edmund Kuehn
‘German Village View’, 1956
Casein on board
15 x 20 inches
Signed and dated lower left
OPPOSITE PAGE:
Edmund Kuehn
DETAIL: ‘German Village View’, 1956
Alan Gough
DETAIL: ‘Michigan: Barn Ruins’ 300
P: 614.464.1228
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EAST BECK STREET COLUMBUS, OH 43206
APRIL 12 - MAY 6, 2024
OPENING RECEPTION:
FRIDAY, APRIL 12 (6:30-8:30PM)
VALET PARKING
INTRODUCTION
We are very pleased to exhibit the works of two exceptional and dedicated artists: Alan Gough and Edmund Kuehn. Their aesthetic styles are different but their outstanding command of their media, keen knowledge of composition, and fine orchestration of tones and hues are shared characteristics of their art.
Both artists completed their education at fine art schools: The American Academy of Art in Chicago, and Art Students League in New York, respectively. Alan’s subjects have been the urban and rural landscape. Initially, his painterly urban works with richly brushed scumbling of paint were influenced by the art of such masters of vital brushwork and the depiction of everyday life and dwellings in New York as George Bellows, John Sloan, and George Luks. Alan’s landscapes since the mid 1970’s, with a few earlier exceptions, have been more tightly rendered with affinities to the egg tempera paintings and finely articulated drybrush watercolors and drawings of Andrew Wyeth. Alan shared Wyeth’s interest in the details and underlying structure of the American landscape and the dwellings and barns of the perseverant farmers who toiled the land and bonded with it. He favors the sparse, subtly toned and quietly hued late fall, winter and early spring landscapes. However, his late spring, summer, and early fall paintings have more vibrant color harmonies, yet still have a well-defined structure.
Whereas Edmund’s multi-faceted art is a product largely of his thorough study of European modern art in New York at the Art Students League, including the vibrant, expressive Fauvist use of color by such Post-Impressionists as Henri Matisse and Andre Derain. His compositions are often a function of the Cezannesque sculptural structure of forms which is rooted in iconic African wood carvings. Also, Edmund admired the fluidity of line, opulant forms, and the beautiful color harmonies of the Rococo figural paintings of the eighteenth century French artist, Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Yet there is a unique playfulness with his orchestration of color and line in much of his art that reflects his wry sense of humor and enjoyment of classical music, opera, and the urbane comedy of Jacques Tati and Charlie Chaplin.
Both of these artists are kindred spirits in their resolute devotion to their art and to elevating the enjoyment and spirit of those who view and contemplate their art.
Timothy Keny
‘Porch Cat’, September, 1965
Pencil on paper
8 x 13 inches
Dated and signed lower right
$850
ALAN GOUGH
‘Contrast’, 1965
Graphite on paper
10 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches
Signed and dated lower right
$750
11 x 7 1/2 inches
$950
Self Portrait, 1951
Graphite on paper
12 x 16 inches
Signed lower right
$1,500
‘Michigan: Open Door Grey House Study’, Late 1950’s Oil on canvasboard
‘Michigan: Red Barn Study’, 1958 Oil on canvasboard 12 x
16 inches
Signed and dated lower left $1,500
‘Blue Barn View’, mid 1960’s Oil on canvasboard 12 x 16 inches Initialed lower right: A.G. Signed verso $1,500
‘Dimity House Along Sulphur Springs Road, Chillicothe, Ohio’, Early 1960’s Oil on canvasboard 16 x 12 inches $1,500 Corner Window at ‘The Mountain House’ 1961 OIl on canvasboard 16 x 12 inches
lower left $1,500
Initialed
‘Michigan: Barn Ruins’ Summer, 1959
Oil on canvasboard 12x 16 inches Signed and dated upper left $1,500
Initialed lower left
‘Buildings in Sun and Shade Tenant House Shade’, 1960’s Oil on canvasboard 16 x 12 inches
$1,500
‘Chicago: Back Fence in Snow’ (Chicago Back Apartments and Fence), Winter, 1960
Oil on canvasboard 12 x 16 inches
Initialed lower right
Oil on canvasboard
x 16 inches
Initialed lower right
$1,500
‘Chicago, Underneath Construction Site’, early 1960’s
12
$1,500
‘Along Side Rte #50, Just East of Bainbridge, Ohio’
December, 1967
Oil on canvasboard
10 x 14 inches $1,200
‘Along Rte #50, Just West of Chillicothe’,
January, 1967
Oil on canvasboard
10 x 14 inches $1,200
10 x 14 inches
Initialed lower right $1,200
16 x 12 inches
:Signed lower right
Private Collection
‘(Well Pump),’ c. 1970’s
Oil on canvas board
‘Portage Point, MIchigan’, August, 1972
Oil on canvasboard
‘November River,’ 1969 Oil on canvasboard 16 x 12 inches Signed lower right: Gough
$2,400
‘Two Elms’, 1971
Oil on canvas
24 x 16 inches
To be signed by the artist
$2,800
‘Oil sketch for ‘Two Elms’ (with fireflies)’, June, 1970
Oil on canvasboard
10 x 14 inches
$1,200
‘Winter Side Light’, 1979
Oil on canvas
12 x 16 inches
Private Collection
12/ x 18/ inches
Signed lower left: Gough
$2,400
‘Pod Procession’, 1973
Oil on canvas
12
16 inches
Signed lower right Private Collection
12 x 16 inches
Signed lower right Private Collection
‘Sanfords South Side’ Oil on canvasboard
x
‘Red Barn on a Hillside’ Oil on canvas
‘Oil Study, Creek Stones (Camp OYO Series)’, 1987
Oil on canvasboard
12 x 9 inches
Initialed lower left
Private collection
‘Open Door, Open Window’
Oil Study, 1993
Oil on canvasboard
12 x 9 inches
Initialed lower right
Private collection
12 x 16 inches
Signed lower right
$1,750
‘Over the Cove’, 1992
Oil on canvas
‘The Blue M’, 1992
OIl on canvas
16 x 12 inches
Signed lower right Private Collection
‘White
Oil on canvas board
12 x 9 inches
Initialed lower right
$1,000
Pine Summer Portrait’, 2016-2018
Oil on canvasboard
12 x 9 inches
Initialed lower right $1,000
9 x 12 inches $1,000
‘Post December’, 2017
‘Entrance Gate’, 2017
Oil on canvasboard
‘Topping The Knoll (#2)’, 2023
Oil on canvasboard
12 x 9 inches
Initialed lower right $1,000
‘Fairfield Fencing’, 2020,2021
Oil on panel
9 x 12 inches
Initialed lower left $1,000
‘Going South’, 2020
Oil on canvasboard
9 x 12 inches
Initialed lower right $1,000
Initialed lower right
inches
Initialed lower right
inches
Initialed lower left
‘Owl Creek November’, 2022 Oil on academy board 12 x 9 inches
$1,000
‘Polk Hollow Progression’, 2021 Oil on panel 9 x 12
$1,000
‘Classic Ross’, 2022 Oil on canvasboard 9 x 12
$1,000
EDMUND KUEHN
‘German Village View’, 1956
Casein on board
15 x 20 inches
Signed and dated lower left
‘Still Life In Doorway’, c. 1955
Casein on paperboard
20 x 15 inches
:Signed
‘Schiller Park’, 1987 Acrylic on paperboard
15 x 20 inches
and dated lower left
‘Boy in Park’, 1987 Acrylic on board 15 x 20 inches
Signed and dated lower left
‘Still
Life with Violets’,
1989
Acrylic on board 15 x 20 inches Signed and dated lower left
‘Still Life, Red Table Top’, 1955 Acrylic on board 15 x 20 inches Signed and dated lower left
‘The New Hat’, 1994 Acrylic 8 x 10 inches
Initialed and dated lower left
‘Proud Cat’, 1993
Gouache on paper 8 x 10 inches
Signed and dated lower left
Casein on board 20 x 15 inches Signed and dated lower right Private Collection
‘Looking West from 828’,
1953