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Artist Name:  Howard Logan Hildebrandt Artist Dates:        1872-1958       Painting Title:      Gloucester Fishermen   Painting Date:     Undated  Medium:             Oil on Artist Board       Signature:            Signed         Provenance:        Treadway/Toomey Condition:          Good       Size Unframed:    10 1/2 x 13 3/4  Size Framed:        15 1/4 x 18 1/4      Frame Condition:  Worn  Artist Best Price:  $82,250 Offered At:          $5,000

Curator's Comments: Hildebrandt was a painter’s painter, and it is fitting that his most famous portrait (1947), which hangs in the Smithsonian, is of the tonalist Eliot Clark, head of the National Academy and son of American painter Walter Clark. Another Pennsylvanian, Hildebrandt studied in France at the Academie Julian under Benjamin Constant and J. P. Laurens. In New York, he worked at the National Academy, where his self-portrait still hangs. Sargent is a major influence on his portraiture, particularly in the figure-background relationship, but Hildebrandt preferred the outdoor portrait. His occasional paintings frequently show fisherman at work, and an early work on this theme won an American Watercolor Society prize. Our painting of “Gloucester Fisherman” is a small jeu d’esprit (more colorful than a larger work entitled, “Cleaning the Catch”), and we think its impressionist study is perfect for the moment–the painting comes alive in the light, with the pink silver sheen of the catch glowing amid grey overtones. This is a casual work thrown off by a master with perfect skill that continues to capture our eye. We like the sketch with its silvery shine and greying skies much more than the larger work it bred.

In Cleaning the Catch Hildebrandt renders a more static construct.

Mending the Nets brought $8,000 in 2006--here too the posture grouping is formal.

Note:  Hildebrandt’s signature at the lower right is partially indistinct, but unreinforced. A better frame would add to the overall effect, and a light cleaning would benefit.

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