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Artist Name:         James King Bonnar Artist Dates:         1885 - 1961 Painting Title:       Winter in Vermont Painting Date:       No Date Medium:              Oil on Canvas Signature:             Signed Lower Right Provenance:          Private Collection Condition:             Excellent Size Unframed:      15 3/4 x 15 1/4 Frame Condition:   Mint Reproduction Artist Best Price:   $11,000 Our Price:             $5,000

Curator's Comments: A painter’s painter, Bonnar was the youngest of the New England painters gathered around Emile Gruppe’, Anthony Thieme, and Aldro Hibbard. We strongly believe that his work is receiving increasing attention and progressively finding a reception that matches what his fellow masters are bringing. He was true to the New England pattern, painting Rockport marines in summer (he had a summer home in the Portuguese fishing section of Gloucester) and Vermont snowscapes in the winter. But his excellence is easily seen in the work we are calling Winter in Vermont, where his cobalt blue hues are in perfect harmony (our image is deficient when it comes to the painting’s excellence). We show a comparative Bonnar work, portraying Mount Equinox in Manchester, Vermont to illustrate his individual technique with sky blue heavens. .

More important for us is the snowscape itself, in which Bonnar catches the quintessential aim of his fellow painters by showing the fallen snow as the true painter of the landscape. Nature remains in perfection beneath a coat of many white colors. We are reminded of an old Japanese proverb, which claims that success only comes to fisherman who know the shape of the unseen bottom of the sea wherever they work—similarly, in Bonnar’s work, we know that the terrain that rests perfectly beneath the snow. Winter in Vermont is a white gem with perfect perspective, which illustrates Bonnar’s mastery.

Bonnar was born in North Adams, MA and lived in Newtonville, MA. He graduated from the Massachusetts School of Art where he study with Joseph DeCamp, and also with Ernest Major, and the influence of DeCamp is clear in his brushwork. He was the president of the Copley Society of Boston and exhibited for many years at the North Shore Arts Association (founded in 1922 by Hibbard, William Paxton, Frederick Mulhaupt, Edmund Tarbell and Frank Benson) and the Rockport Art Association. Bonnar was also a founder of the Newton, MA Art Association, and his works were included in the Newton Museum’s association retrospective. Bonnar’s best works are just beginning to appear as they leave the private collections of patrons who purchased his works directly, and we expect his technique to bring him continuing recognition as these works reach market.

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