ALICE WILLIAMS (AMERICAN, 20TH CENTURY) POST-IMPRESSIONIST 

PRE-WWII, COASTAL SCENE PASTEL of GLOUCESTER or ROCKPORT, MASSACHUSETTS on CAPE ANN, in ORIGINAL CIRCA 1930'S GOLD GILT, THIN-PROFILE, TEXTURED PERIOD PICTURE FRAME, DATED 'AUGUST 28, 1938' on LOWER RIGHT CORNER in PENCIL, with BROWN 

PAPER DUST COVER

[For your review and consideration is this very clean and very well-preserved, early 20th century, pre-WWII American antique pastel landscape drawing using colored chalks, of a scene from the North Shore on Cape Ann, near Rockport or Gloucester, Massachusetts, of a rock strewn coastline with bushes and a single dwarf tree, pummeled by storms, seen on the right, up on a slight grassy bluff. The sky is buff- colored with a single cloud and resembles the platinum sky, so favored by many landscape artists in Provincetown, Massachusetts, another artist's colony. A trio of masted sailboats can be seen gently gliding back and forth in the wind across the cobalt light pastel blue sea, which seems gentle and calm. The shore grasses are varied in color and scrub vegetation found in the sand and rocks of the shore are wonderfully realized and sensitively captured, with a discretionary palette of pastel green colors. The work has an 'en plein air' quality and distinct freshness about it, allowing us a first person view of the scene. In its original, early 20th century, pre-WWII, pressed period gold gilt wooden picture frame. Existential. Alive.]

(Dated August 28, 1938)

Early 20th century, post-WWII American Post-Impressionist antique colored pastel drawings of the Rockport & Gloucester, Cape Ann, 

Massachusetts coastline in their original period picture frames 

DIMENSIONS:

 9 ¼" Height x 11 ¼" Width x ½" Depth 

 Weight: 1 lb.

DESCRIPTION:

For your review and consideration is this very clean and very well-preserved, early 20th century, pre-WWII American antique pastel landscape drawing using colored chalks, of a scene from the North Shore on Cape Ann, near Rockport or Gloucester, Massachusetts, of a rock strewn coastline with bushes and a single dwarf tree, pummeled by storms, seen on the right, up on a slight grassy bluff. The sky is buff- colored with a single cloud and resembles the platinum sky, so favored by many landscape artists in Provincetown, Massachusetts, another artist's colony. A trio of masted sailboats can be seen gently gliding back and forth in the wind across the cobalt light pastel blue sea, which seems gentle and calm. The shore grasses are varied in color and scrub vegetation found in the sand and rocks of the shore are wonderfully realized and sensitively captured, with a discretionary palette of pastel green colors. The work has an 'en plein air' quality and distinct freshness about it, allowing us a first person view of the scene. In its original, early 20th century, pre-WWII, pressed period gold gilt wooden picture frame. Existential. Alive.

CONDITION:

Very Good to Excellent overall antique condition.