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Gerrit Sinclair
American, 1890 - 1955
Gerrit V. Sinclair’s paintings chronicled American life in Wisconsin and the Midwest from the 1920s through the 1950s. While he served in Italy during World War I as an ambulance driver and also painted in Paris in 1930, Sinclair largely ignored modern European trends in art in favor of developing a warm figurative style that embraced the dignity of life in ordinary American towns and rural locales. Sinclair’s regionalist views of the American scene focus on the “virtues of family, patriotism, hard work and the simple pleasures of daily life”. An instructor at the Layton School of Art, Sinclair influenced numerous young artists getting their start in Milwaukee. In addition, Sinclair worked for the WPA during the Great Depression, completing murals entitled “Lumbering” and “Rural Mail” for the Federal Building in Wasau, Wisconsin.
Gerrit Sinclair’s paintings were exhibited at such institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Carnegie Institute of Art, Pittsburgh; the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, The Century of Progress ; the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., among others.
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Park St. Cloud, 1929-30Oil on canvas21 1/4 x 32 inchesSigned G.V. Sinclair lower right.
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Fall Landscape, ca. 1930Oil on canvas25 1/2 x 32 inchesSigned G.V. Sinclair upper right.
#4428 -
Foothills, 1925Oil on canvas24 x 30 inchesSigned G.V. Sinclair lower left; signed, titled and dated on reverse.
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Yacht Club, 1945Oil on Masonite20 x 15 inchesSigned G.V. Sinclair and dated lower right; titled and dated on reverse.
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Farm Scene - Tractor, ca. 1935Oil on Masonite20 x 24 inches#2599 -
Milwaukee Street Scene with Schlitz Beer Delivery Truck, ca. 1940Watercolor, ink and graphite on paper11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches#4431 -
Prospect Hill, ca. 1930sTempera over watercolor on paper14 x 20 1/2 inchesSigned G.V. Sinclair and titled lower right; signed, titled and numbered on reverse.
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Sunning Himself, 1949Oil on Masonite9 x 12 inchesSigned G.V. Sinclair lower right; signed, titled, dated and numbered on reverse.
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In the Dunes, ca. 1925Oil on canvas laid down on Masonite15 x 20 inchesSigned G.V. Sinclair lower right; signed, titled and numbered on reverse.
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Provincetown, 1926-31Oil on canvas laid down on board (original mount)14 3/4 x 20 inchesSigned G.V. Sinclair lower right; titled, stamped and numbered on reverse.
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Cigar Store, 1951Watercolor and graphite on paper15 1/4 x 22 inchesSigned Gerrit V. Sinclair lower right; signed, titled and dated on reverse.
#2813 -
Arkansas Romance, 1925Oil on panel20 x 24 inchesSigned G.V. Sinclair and dated upper right; signed and titled on reverse.
#2558 -
Mural Study - Homestead, ca. 1935Oil on canvas24 x 32 inchesSigned G.V. Sinclair lower right; signed and titled "Mural Sketch" on reverse.
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Mural Study - American City, ca. 1935Oil on canvas24 x 32 inches#2569 -
News Stand, 1951Watercolor and graphite on paper18 x 15 1/2 inchesSigned G.V. Sinclair lower right; signed, titled, numbered and dated on reverse.
#4432 -
Summer Resorters, 1951Tempera over watercolor on paper16 1/4 x 14 3/4 inchesSigned and dated G.V. Sinclair ‘51 lower right; signed, titled, numbered and dated on reverse.
#4458 -
Cove, 1925Tempera over watercolor on paper15 1/2 x 22 inchesSigned G.V. Sinclair lower right; signed, titled and numbered on reverse.
#4436 -
Huron River Bridge, 1947Tempera over watercolor on paper22 1/2 x 15 1/2 inchesSigned G.V. Sinclair and dated lower right; signed, titled, dated and numbered on reverse.
#4457 -
Rue de Lappe, Paris, 1930Watercolor and graphite on paper14 x 21 1/4 inchesSigned G.V. Sinclair, titled and dated upper right.
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Shipboard, Mid Ocean , 1933Watercolor and graphite on paper15 x 22 3/4 inchesSigned G.V. Sinclair and dated lower left; signed, titled and dated on reverse.
#2817 -
North Avenue, 1932Watercolor and graphite on paper15 1/4 x 22 inchesSigned and dated G.V. Sinclair '32 lower right; signed titled and dated on reverse.
#2815 -
Untitled (On the Dunes), 1925Watercolor on paper13 x 20 inchesSigned G.V. Sinclair and dated upper right; dated on reverse.
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Cherry Street Bridge, 1928Watercolor and graphite on paper15 1/2 x 21 3/4 inchesSigned and dated G.V. Sinclair '28 lower right; signed, titled, dated and numbered on reverse.
#4450
Gerrit V. Sinclair’s paintings chronicled American life in Wisconsin and the Midwest from the 1920s through the 1950s. While he served in Italy during World War I as an ambulance driver and also painted in Paris in 1930, Sinclair largely ignored modern European trends in art in favor of developing a warm figurative style that embraced the dignity of life in ordinary American towns and rural locales. Sinclair’s regionalist views of the American scene focus on the “virtues of family, patriotism, hard work and the simple pleasures of daily life”. An instructor at the Layton School of Art, Sinclair influenced numerous young artists getting their start in Milwaukee. In addition, Sinclair worked for the WPA during the Great Depression, completing murals entitled “Lumbering” and “Rural Mail” for the Federal Building in Wasau, Wisconsin.
Gerrit Sinclair’s paintings were exhibited at such institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Carnegie Institute of Art, Pittsburgh; the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, The Century of Progress ; the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., among others.
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Chicago, Illinois 60654
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info@richardnortongallery.com
Gallery Hours
Monday through Friday
9 am to 5 pm
©2018 Richard Norton Gallery LLC