拍品專文
The present work was painted 3 March 1948 and assigned number 1320 by artist.
A repeated image by Moses, the Checkered House was a landmark near Cambridge, New York that the artist remembered from her youth. She recalled “The Checkered House is old…It was the Headquarters of General Baum in the revolution war, and afterwards he used it as a hospital, then it was a stopping place for the stage, where they changed horses every two miles, oh we traveled fast those days” (Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses (New York, 1973), p. 68). In this charming depiction she paints a bustling scene with horse-drawn sleighs and convening officers in blue at snowfall. When asked how she was able to create a new composition for each depiction of the Checkered House, Moses said that she visualized the painting as if she was about to paint it as framed through her window. For additional examples of Checkered House scenes see Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses (New York, 1973), pp. 67-68, nos. 50 and 51.
This work was previously owned by George Gard “Buddy” DeSylva (1895-1950), a songwriter, film producer and record executive in Los Angeles. He co-founded Capitol Records in 1942 and also served as the executive director of Paramount Pictures from 1941-1944. In 1924 he married Marie Wallace who was a Ziegfeld Follies dancer. DeSylva had an impressive collection of French Impressionist and modern paintings and sculpture which was donated to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
A repeated image by Moses, the Checkered House was a landmark near Cambridge, New York that the artist remembered from her youth. She recalled “The Checkered House is old…It was the Headquarters of General Baum in the revolution war, and afterwards he used it as a hospital, then it was a stopping place for the stage, where they changed horses every two miles, oh we traveled fast those days” (Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses (New York, 1973), p. 68). In this charming depiction she paints a bustling scene with horse-drawn sleighs and convening officers in blue at snowfall. When asked how she was able to create a new composition for each depiction of the Checkered House, Moses said that she visualized the painting as if she was about to paint it as framed through her window. For additional examples of Checkered House scenes see Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses (New York, 1973), pp. 67-68, nos. 50 and 51.
This work was previously owned by George Gard “Buddy” DeSylva (1895-1950), a songwriter, film producer and record executive in Los Angeles. He co-founded Capitol Records in 1942 and also served as the executive director of Paramount Pictures from 1941-1944. In 1924 he married Marie Wallace who was a Ziegfeld Follies dancer. DeSylva had an impressive collection of French Impressionist and modern paintings and sculpture which was donated to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.