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Lot 329
Charles Allen Winter "War and Peace" Oil on Canvas
Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000
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Charles Allen Winter (American, 1869-1942). Oil on canvas painting titled "War and Peace," depicting an allegorical scene blending biblical and modern figures, ca. 1910-1915.
Housed in its original, beautiful & ornate hand carved wood frame, this is believed to be an interior illustration for Cosmopolitan magazine. The publication ran a series of spiritually relevant writings by Roycroft founder and early Twentieth Century philosopher Elbert Hubbard under the title “Little Sermons.†While Hubbard’s sermons were also published regularly in newspapers across the nation and later in his own publication The Fra, the Cosmopolitan printings alone were all illustrated by Winter.
Lot Essay:
Charles Allan Winter (while the artist used the Allan spelling for his middle name, he is more commonly known as Charles Allen Winter) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1869. His father, Alfred Allan Winter, came to the United States from England at the age of three years. His mother, Fannie Amelia (Ramsley) Winter, was born in Piermont, New York. The Ramsley family was among the earliest settlers of Newark, New Jersey. Four children were born to the couple, Charles was their first.
While he was an infant, the Winter family moved to Dayton, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati. Charles attended public school until the age of 12 years. After leaving school he was employed by a cousin, John Ramsley who conducted a confectionary establishment in Cincinnati. At the age of 15 he entered the Cincinnati Art Academy as a student, mornings only, continuing to work afternoons at Ramsley’s. He was able to attend the art academy only part time, some of the time the night session only, for seven years or until he was 22. The next two years he attended both the day and night sessions. His teachers included Vincent Nowottny, Lewis Lutz, and Thomas S. Noble.
In 1894 Charles won a foreign scholarship competition given by the art academy with which he traveled abroad for three years in Paris, France. Tuition and all personal expenses were covered by the scholarship. At the Académie Julian he studied under Adolphe-William Bouguereau and Gabriel Ferrier. He spent eight months of the three year scholarship in Rome, Italy.
At the completion of the three years, Charles prolonged his stay in Europe until he received an invitation to teach a portrait class at the St. Louis School of Fine Art, Missouri, where he remained for three years.
In 1901 Charles moved to New York and took a studio at 8 East 59th Street, where he lived when he married Alice Mary Beach on January 1, 1904.
Charles died in 1942.
Charles was an illustrator and landscape and marine painter who used bright colors and impressionist style. He painted at Gloucester, Massachusetts and St. Louis, Missouri and exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Art Institute of Chicago. His illustrations were published in magazines such as Collier’s, Cosmopolitan, Hearst’s magazines, and The Masses.
Sight; height: 23 in x width: 35 in. Framed; height: 29 in x width: 41 in.
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Housed in its original, beautiful & ornate hand carved wood frame, this is believed to be an interior illustration for Cosmopolitan magazine. The publication ran a series of spiritually relevant writings by Roycroft founder and early Twentieth Century philosopher Elbert Hubbard under the title “Little Sermons.†While Hubbard’s sermons were also published regularly in newspapers across the nation and later in his own publication The Fra, the Cosmopolitan printings alone were all illustrated by Winter.
Lot Essay:
Charles Allan Winter (while the artist used the Allan spelling for his middle name, he is more commonly known as Charles Allen Winter) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1869. His father, Alfred Allan Winter, came to the United States from England at the age of three years. His mother, Fannie Amelia (Ramsley) Winter, was born in Piermont, New York. The Ramsley family was among the earliest settlers of Newark, New Jersey. Four children were born to the couple, Charles was their first.
While he was an infant, the Winter family moved to Dayton, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati. Charles attended public school until the age of 12 years. After leaving school he was employed by a cousin, John Ramsley who conducted a confectionary establishment in Cincinnati. At the age of 15 he entered the Cincinnati Art Academy as a student, mornings only, continuing to work afternoons at Ramsley’s. He was able to attend the art academy only part time, some of the time the night session only, for seven years or until he was 22. The next two years he attended both the day and night sessions. His teachers included Vincent Nowottny, Lewis Lutz, and Thomas S. Noble.
In 1894 Charles won a foreign scholarship competition given by the art academy with which he traveled abroad for three years in Paris, France. Tuition and all personal expenses were covered by the scholarship. At the Académie Julian he studied under Adolphe-William Bouguereau and Gabriel Ferrier. He spent eight months of the three year scholarship in Rome, Italy.
At the completion of the three years, Charles prolonged his stay in Europe until he received an invitation to teach a portrait class at the St. Louis School of Fine Art, Missouri, where he remained for three years.
In 1901 Charles moved to New York and took a studio at 8 East 59th Street, where he lived when he married Alice Mary Beach on January 1, 1904.
Charles died in 1942.
Charles was an illustrator and landscape and marine painter who used bright colors and impressionist style. He painted at Gloucester, Massachusetts and St. Louis, Missouri and exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Art Institute of Chicago. His illustrations were published in magazines such as Collier’s, Cosmopolitan, Hearst’s magazines, and The Masses.
Sight; height: 23 in x width: 35 in. Framed; height: 29 in x width: 41 in.
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