Maine Forest Landscape With Stream Painting by George Louis Morris American Impressionist Frame

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This is a very beautifully painted Maine landscape with a brook running through a forest. This is oil painted on … Read more This is a very beautifully painted Maine landscape with a brook running through a forest. This is oil painted on a stretched canvas with a texture almost like burlap. This is likely a landscape located somewhere in Maine. It has beautiful movement and light moving through a dark woodland. This is not on its original stretcher, the canvas is not tautly stretched but it isn't noticeable; this just looks a tiny bit conclave if looking very closely. Condition of the painting itself is very good with very light wear.

Framed size approximately 28.75" x 34.5" x 1.75" d. Sight size 23.5" x 29.5".

The frame is magnificent, and it appears to have been hand carved by an artisan frame maker. Hand carved in a unique style that has elements of the Taos frame style, but, it has a flair of Art Nouveau or Japanese style with delicate and simple organic forms unfolding, sometimes looking like flat leaves, or emerging shoots with a rounded edge. This has some amount of damage and wear, it looks very nice but is worthy of light restoration. The largest issue is a chip out of the little rounded shoot located directly under the signature. This is a large chip, please see the photos for this. There are several places where the guilding or gesso are missing a bit, mostly with little bits that have flaked up and off, there is a remnant of a sticker tag on the upper frame (you can see in the photos if you look closely, left of center a bit), this may damage the finish a bit more if removed incorrectly, but there is a bit of the other damage at this location as well. None of the damage is very bad, but it is there, I think conservation should be left to a professional working selectively as this is something that should retain as much of its original quality as possible. The back of the frame has some text, on lower it appears to read "Carved Met Morris", there is other information like numbers and other marks but I am not sure if there is a maker's mark among them. There does appear to be a collection number or other reference number, it appears on both the scant remnant of dust cover and on the frame itself. If you want more detail photos, please contact me.

George Louis Morris was born September 21, 1890 in Portland Maine.

The artist started off his early years as a salesman for his father's business, but early on learned his love for painting would soon take over his life.

The artist lived most of his life in Portland Maine with his wife Marion (Foster Thorndike) Morris. He loved to paint the New England coast especially the town of Ogunquit Maine. His seascapes always involved crashing waves and moss covered rocks, boats or the Charming New England town of Ogunquit.

His favorite places to paint were Perkins Cove, and The Marginal Way. This is a cliff walk with coastal views, benches and a lighthouse that lead to a hidden cove of boats and docks and fishermen's shacks.

He exhibited many places along the mid-west and the east coast most notably The
Closson Galleries, Cincinnati, OH and The Ogunquit Museum of Art.

He painted and sold his work in a small studio gallery located on Shore Road in the center of Ogunquit. He died October 2, 1983 in Ogunquit/York, Maine. See less