Artwork of the Week!! Sun, Sept 27, 2019, is by Dorr Bothwell (1902-2000): The Mill, Port Gamble", oil pastel, 1926. $1,300.00.
Artwork of the Week!! Sunday, September 27, 2019, is by Modernist painter/printmaker Dorr Bothwell (1902-2000).
"The Mill, Port Gamble", oil pastel on paper, 1926. This work is ink signed and dated "26", by the artist in the lower right image. The image and paper measures 14-1/2 x 12".?The pastel was done on a cream wove paper, adhered to a thin illustration board. Our inventory number for this impression is ABMM243. This work is from the artist's estate.
This Modernist color oil pastel by Dorr Bothwell is available from the gallery for $1,300.00.
In the mid 1920s, not long after her graduation from the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, Bothwell's imagery showed the mark of contemporary Modernism, though her earliest style was rooted in Impressionism. Flat, Cubist-inspired planes and blocky urban scenes began to emerge where formerly she focused on figurative and landscape imagery.
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In "The Mill, Port Gamble," we can witness a period of experimentation in which she began to use the width of the oil pastel to produce works with thick, jagged lines and saturated earth tones, capturing the sensory experience of the industrial environment. In the coming years she will have moved almost entirely into non-objective Abstraction.
The Puget Mill Company's Port Gamble sawmill in Port Gamble, Washington was the longest running mill in the U.S. by the time it closed its doors in 1995. When Dorr Bothwell drew this image mill and its surroundings, it was almost exactly at the midpoint of its entire operation and was in its heyday, bringing prosperity to 250 sawmill employees and their families in the damp Pacific Northwest. Today, it is a tourist destination whose historic buildings and houses were restored to their original New England style in 1996.
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