1970s Theodore DeGroot Lathe Art – Village With White Picket Fence & Steeple Scene

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This lathe-art panel is made with a herringbone-pattern grey background, before the usual foreground palette choice of white, red-brown, and … Read more This lathe-art panel is made with a herringbone-pattern grey background, before the usual foreground palette choice of white, red-brown, and ochre, along with three-dimensional elements including miniature picket fence, building facades with cut window grilles, a street lamp post, along with figural silhouettes. Signed "Degroot" in lower right.
Theodore Cornelius de Groot (December 15, 1920 – July 20, 2019) was a Dutch-American painter. He was born in a suburb of The Hague in the Netherlands. In 1959 de Groot came to America with his wife Hans and five children. He started painting for the advertising industry before going on his own.
He said “I refuse to paint "sure sellers", such as the cute, the corny, the romantic, the sentimental, the narrative. My favorite subject is the contemporary American urban scene, which I find exciting and uniquely suited to my taste. I like to use clues that give an illusion of space, or only a suggestion of it around the corner or beyond the hill. The opposites of mass and space, of volumes and voids intrigue me.”
This was recently purchased from a Hollywood prop studio who stated this had previously been rented to the Productions of "Young and the Restless" (2008-2012), Hope's Farm set and "This Is Us".
This was believed to have been created in the 1970’s or early 80’s. It has some imperfections that are consistent with age. See less