Blowy Morning. Old Colony, ("Old Colony"), ("Old Colony")
1939, in New York, 118 Perry St.
Oil on canvas
17 × 28 3⁄4 inches(43 × 73 cm)
Inscr. upper right: Th. Lux; verso left on the canvas: TH. LUX 1939, right: BLOWY MORNING LONG ISLAND SOUND 1921
TLF: "Blowy Morning", 1939 [101]; "Old Colony", 1939 New York [102, Nr. 28]
Private collection Germany
Provenance: 1939 studio sale to Mr. Alfred W. Paine, New York; 2001 Moeller Fine Art, New York and Berlin, 2013 sold to Herrn Hermann Krause, Köln; 2021 Dr. Irene Lehr Kunstauktionen, Berlin, lot 90
TLF: "I saw, walking on the banks of the East River that summer [during the New York World Fair, 1939], an inspiring spectacle: The white and beautiful sidewheeler “Robert Fulton” with three tall smokestacks abreast, billowing under smoke into the amber sunset light... It started me off to paint “steamers” instead of “sailing ships”; a nothing, a trifle to the bystander but of the utmost importance to me. ... I “learned steamers” the way I had learned, when just twelve years old, sailing ships... It is this sort of experience that makes me say that “I don’t choose my subjects but they choose me”. ... But when “they” leave you – as they do – it is irremedial." [105]
TLF: "Then, still in ’39, I painted the Blowy Morning. This has the sidewheeler "Old Colony" heaving and rolling in a bottlegreen sea, while a five-masted, “baldheaded” barkentine is close-hauled against the rosy sunlight of early morning." [105]
TLF: "Old Colony" by P. L. Sperr" [113, Section II A, III. American River and Coastwise Steamers. 39.]
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