Yellow & Purple Flowers Oil Painting on Paper-1930s-Amalia Ludwig-1888-1978

Description: This is a 14 by 10 inch oil painting on paper of yellow and purple flowers. It was done by New Jersey artist Amalia Ludwig around the 1930s. It is unsigned. It has an estate stamp on back. The condition is excellent. It will be shipped for $18 via UPS or USPS. See the photos. The names Gar Sparks and Amalia Ludwig are little known to art collectors even among those from New Jersey. Nonetheless, they were artists of merit and consequence in the hierarchy of New Jersey and more specifically Newark painters. Amalia Ludwig was born in Akron, Ohio in 1888 and was involved with fellow Akron artist Gar Sparks. She studied at the Art Student's League on a scholarship beginning in 1912. She married Gar Sparks in 1917 at which time they had moved to Newark where they would live out their lives in Newark and East Orange,N.J. Dream imagery, mist-infused atmosphere, expansive landscapes, and contemplative nudes or figures are among the commonly found elements in the paintings of Ludwig. Her subjects often seem preoccupied with other places or times. She spoke of her work as being described by others as imaginative but there is no evidence that Ludwig called her work surrealist. In the 30s and 40s this term was not yet much used outside of esoteric surrealist art and literary circles and one that Sparks & Ludwig may not ever have used to describe their work. What she produced was without a doctrinaire, surrealist philosophical intent, as was true of other of the more known surrealists in the 1930s and 1940s. However, she created images that later could or would be properly considered surrealist in nature. It is worth noting that Amalia Ludwig was without doubt among the first American women surrealists. The two most famous American women surrealist painters in the 1930s and 1940s were Kay Sage and Dorothy Tanning, married to Ives Tanguy and Max Ernst, respectively. The virtuosity, integrity and quality demonstrated by Tanning and Sage are undeniable and now are matters of history. It is also undeniable that Tanguy and Ernst were major international innovators of surrealism and this could not but help elevate their wives' profiles,careers and legacies far beyond the relative obscurity to which Ludwig had and has been relegated. She exhibited her work at the ACA Galleries in the 1930s and at the 1939 New York World's Fair. She exhibited several times at the Newark Museum and was regularly shown at the iconic Rabin & Krueger Gallery in Newark. She died in 1978 in East Orange, New Jersey.

Price: 225 USD

Location: Westfield, New Jersey

End Time: 2025-01-21T17:56:14.000Z

Shipping Cost: 18 USD