STEVE GERHARTZ, Birch Grove

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The MOWA Contemporary SILENT AUCTION

By Museum of Wisconsin Art

Sep 2, 2022 - Sep 24, 2022

Set Reminder 2022-09-02 08:00:00 2022-09-24 20:45:00 America/New_York Bidsquare Bidsquare : The MOWA Contemporary SILENT AUCTION https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/museum-of-wisconsin-art/the-mowa-contemporary-silent-auction-10246
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• Lot Description
  LOT #11 Steve Gerhartz
  Birch Grove, 2021
  Oil on canvas
  14 x 28 in.; 20 5/8 x 34 _ in. framed
  $2,500-$3,000
  
  Steve Gerhartz lives and paints in the farmland of the Kettle Moraine Forest area of Kewaskum, Wisconsin, a once glaciated region that has provided him with a rich reservoir of visual experiences. Trained at the Lyme Academy of Fine Art in Connecticut, he was influenced early in his career by the intense light of American and European Impressionism and the timelessness of nature associated with German Romanticism. In Birch Grove, Gerhartz floods this humble view of the Kettle Moraine with natural light, instilling it with quiet reverence and contemplative solitude. Intentionally undisturbed by human or animal presence, this painting evokes a quiet meditation on the vitality of place, the cycles of nature, and the enduring resilience of the untrammeled forest.
  
  The Lily Pad Gallery in Milwaukee has donated this work to the auction on behalf of the artist.

  Dimension

  Height: 20.62

  Width: 34.50
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