Description

Description: This loosely done impressionist oil on board landscape is signed and dated lower left: “C. M. Raschen ’20”. Verso has several pencil notations including: “Near Sheldonville Mass Aug. 1920” and conservation notes: “cleaned & varnished 1963″.

Carl Martin Raschen (1882-1961), painter and illustrator, was active in Upstate New York and St. Louis, Missouri. He studied at the Rochester Athenaeum and was a member of the Rochester Art Club, the Rochester Picture Painter’s Club and the St. Louis Brush and Pencil Club.

12″ x 16″, framed to: 16″ x 20”. Item #FA00488

Condition: The frame, though of the period, does not appear to be original and is 1/2″ too large in each dimension. The rabbet does not cover the unpainted edges of the board. One 1/4″ spot of inpainting in grass foreground. Generally very good.