Snowy Landscape, early 20th c.
Attrib. to Ernest Fredericks (American, 1877-1959), signed faintly at lower left
Oil on board, 12 x 15 in. (frame dimensions)
Wood frame of the same period
Condition: Craquelure on surface.
"Ernest Fredericks" was born with the name Frederick Swedlun in 1877 in McPherson, Kansas. He studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art and exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute and other Illinois art shows. In Chicago, he created the pseudonym “Ernest T. Fredericks” and became known for his regional landscape paintings. Later he moved to Eureka Springs, AR where he resumed using his birth name and taught art classes until his death in 1959.
Ernest Fredericks is identifiable by his distinctive Impressionist style. While the artist painted all seasons, the snowy landscape is a motif he revisited in many paintings, each favoring a bold palette, with pops of bright warm color against brilliant whites and blues tones of snow.
Attrib. to Ernest Fredericks (American, 1877-1959), signed faintly at lower left
Oil on board, 12 x 15 in. (frame dimensions)
Wood frame of the same period
Condition: Craquelure on surface.
"Ernest Fredericks" was born with the name Frederick Swedlun in 1877 in McPherson, Kansas. He studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art and exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute and other Illinois art shows. In Chicago, he created the pseudonym “Ernest T. Fredericks” and became known for his regional landscape paintings. Later he moved to Eureka Springs, AR where he resumed using his birth name and taught art classes until his death in 1959.
Ernest Fredericks is identifiable by his distinctive Impressionist style. While the artist painted all seasons, the snowy landscape is a motif he revisited in many paintings, each favoring a bold palette, with pops of bright warm color against brilliant whites and blues tones of snow.
Attrib. to Ernest Fredericks (American, 1877-1959), signed faintly at lower left
Oil on board, 12 x 15 in. (frame dimensions)
Wood frame of the same period
Condition: Craquelure on surface.
"Ernest Fredericks" was born with the name Frederick Swedlun in 1877 in McPherson, Kansas. He studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art and exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute and other Illinois art shows. In Chicago, he created the pseudonym “Ernest T. Fredericks” and became known for his regional landscape paintings. Later he moved to Eureka Springs, AR where he resumed using his birth name and taught art classes until his death in 1959.
Ernest Fredericks is identifiable by his distinctive Impressionist style. While the artist painted all seasons, the snowy landscape is a motif he revisited in many paintings, each favoring a bold palette, with pops of bright warm color against brilliant whites and blues tones of snow.