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Henry Prellwitz

Henry Prellwitz was best known for allegorical paintings and landscapes of Cornish, New Hampshire and Peconic, New York, where he painted with his wife Edith Mitchill Prellwitz (1865-1944), who was also an artist. Prellwitz studied at the Art Students League and the Académie Julian in Paris and was greatly influenced by his instructor Thomas Dewing, a Tonalist painter. “The Bell” shows Prellwitz’s interest in Tonalism, with its atmospheric use of color and ethereal appearance. It is also an example of a Symbolist painting, a style that rejected academic naturalism in favor of allegorical and evocative compositions that suggest an idea or emotion.
Artist
Henry Prellwitz
(American, 1865 – 1940)
Title
The Bell
Date
ca. 1905
Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
15 5/8 x 23 1/2 in. image
Credit
Gift of D. Frederick Baker from the Baker/Pisano Collection
Accession No.
2021.18.20
Classification
Paintings
Geography
United States

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Sold by the estate of the artist to D. Frederick Baker and Ronald G. Pisano (New York, NY); 2021, gifted by D. Frederick Baker to the Chazen Museum of Art

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