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[nobrashfestivity]

George Ault

Brook in the Mountains, 1945

oil on canvas

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[venustapolis]

August Night At Russell's Corners (George Ault, 1940)

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[newyorkthegoldenage]

George Copeland Ault, Ninth Avenue, 1924. Oil on canvas.

Living in Greenwich Village in the 1920s, George Ault depicted the buildings of New York City with a distinct style of simplified forms, solid colors and extreme angles. Painted in 1924, Ninth Avenue is a dynamic example of Ault's unique form of Precisionism, incorporating elements of Surrealism to create a sense of disquiet amidst the vibrant streets of the city.

In the present work, Ault takes a perspective from under the Ninth Avenue El, which was the first elevated railway in New York and operated between 1868 and 1940. Highlighting the sleek lines and repetitive nature of the architecture around this modern transportation hub, Ault minimizes the cityscape to its most basic geometric forms and executes the composition in flat planes of primary colors. In the foreground, an elegant woman walks her adorable dog, and brilliantly colored cars are parked at regular intervals along either side. The vertical supports of the rail platform emphasize the intense one-point perspective of the scene; as a result, the road and trolley tracks seem to very rapidly recede into the distance as the block-like buildings squeeze closer and closer from both directions. The underlying tension within this outwardly bright, modern cityscape is further underscored by the vibrant signage, which tantalizes the viewer's curiosity but remains largely illegible behind various obstructions.

Ault once referred to New York as "the Inferno without the fire," and the nuances of the present work illustrate that duality that captivated and inspired his many views of the city.

—quoted in George Ault, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1988, p. 7

As Roberta Smith has written of the artist, "Ault's firm, unflamboyant way with a brush, his feeling for a building's austere, carefully dovetailed planes and, above all, his love of light as painting's form-giving, mood-setting force, sustained him at nearly every turn, in any direction he chose to move ... He brought to his various scenes an idiosyncratic poetry and a sadness that was neither hidden nor indulged, but kept at an arm's length with a sense of dignity that, strangely enough, could almost be celebratory. In Ault's paintings, one feels that he loved life, even if life did not particularly love him."

—George "Ault's Sad, Everyday Beauty in Stillness," The New York Times, April 29, 1988

Photo: Christie's

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[thepaintedroom]

George Copeland Ault (America, 1891-1948) • The Artist at Work • 1946 • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City

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[the-cricket-chirps]

George Ault, Bright Light at Russell's Corners, 1946

George Ault, Festus Yayple and His Oxen, 1946

George Ault, Black Night: Russell's Corners, 1943

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[arsvitaest]

George Ault, Festus Yayple and his Oxen, 1946, oil on canvas The Cleveland Museum of Art

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[lascitasdelashoras]

George Ault (1891-1948) Daylight at Russell's Corners, 1944.

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[careful-disorder]

George Ault,

"The setting is the same in each case—a solitary streetlight, the same bend in the road, the same collection of barns and sheds—but seen from different vantage points. In them, Ault has summoned up the poetry of darkness in an unforgettable way—the implacable solitude and strangeness that night bestows upon once-familiar forms and places." Wikipedia

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[stealfocus]

ARTIST: George Copeland Ault

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[abdulaziz2023]

لوحة للرسام جورج أولت (1891-1948) - عنوان اللوحة (بيت قديم، قمر جديد) . رسمت اللوحة عام 1943.

George Ault (1891-1948) - Old House, New Moon. 1943.

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[coldcoldlampin]

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[bigspoopygurl]

George Ault - January Full Moon (1941)

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[chainsawpunk]

George Copeland Ault, A New York Skyline, 1921, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 in (45.7 x 61 cm)

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[newyorkthegoldenage]

George Ault, Sunday Afternoon in Greenwich Village, 1925. Oil on canvas.

The street corner shown in the painting is Greenwich Avenue and West 10th St. The building that housed the grocery store and adjacent one-story building still stands on the far corner. Ault lived and worked in Greenwich Village, and a gouache of this same corner from an upper story window, View From My Window, 1927, illustrates his familiarity with this spot.

Source: Vilcek Foundation

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[vizuart]

#art #paintings #museum #art pieces #tumblr art #George Ault - New York Night #No. 2 [1788 x 2560]

[the-cricket-chirps]

Auguste Herbin, La Maison Rouge, 1925

George Ault, Hudson Street, 1932

Ralston Crawford, Vertical Building, 1934

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