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AEDOgden M. Pleissner (1905-1983), The Base of the Tetons
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Ogden M. Pleissner (1905-1983)
The Base of the Tetons, 1931
signed and dated "Pleissner '31" lower right
oil on canvas, 40 by 50 in.
titled, signed, and dated on stretcher bar
Ogden Minton Pleissner was born in Brooklyn, New York, and studied figure painting and portraiture with Frank DuMond and Frederick J. Boston at the Art Students League of New York. Despite growing up in the city, Pleissner was attracted to the outdoors and, as a teen, he visited dude ranches in Wyoming, including CM Ranch in Dubois, where he sketched from life. Pleissner wanted to be classified primarily as a landscape painter, who also loved to hunt and fish.
In 1932 one of Pleissner's paintings was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, making him the youngest artist in their collection. Throughout the 1930s and 40s, as a member of the Salmagundi Club, Pleissner frequently won club prizes in the annual shows and gained special note from Howard Devree, art critic for "The New York Times."
Pleissner's art is included in more than thirty public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. His art hangs in the offices of the Pentagon, West Point, and the Air Force Academy.
This stunning large-scale landscape by Pleissner depicts the Tetons in all their glory. Pleissner captures the majesty of the mountains and the subtle gradations of green and gray in the landscape, between the mountain lake, the pine trees, and the low sage-colored ground cover. This tour-de-force oil is among the finest of the artist's Western works, and has descended in the family of the artist.
Provenance: The artist
Private Collection, South Carolina, by descent in the familyCondition
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