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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Fall Landscape, ca. 1930Oil on canvas25 1/2 x 32 inches
Signed G.V. Sinclair, upper right.
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Mural Study - American City, ca. 1935Oil on canvas24 x 32 inches#2569
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Mural Study - Homestead, ca. 1935Oil on canvas24 x 32 inches
Signed G.V. Sinclair lower right; signed and titled "Mural Sketch" on reverse.
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Park St. Cloud, 1929-30Oil on canvas21 1/4 x 32 inches
Signed G.V. Sinclair, lower right.
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Foothills, 1925Oil on canvas24 x 30 inches
Signed G.V. Sinclair, lower left; signed, titled and dated on reverse.
#2564 -
Untitled (Wisconsin Town), ca. 1940Oil on Masonite24 x 30 inches
Signed G.V. Sinclair upper right.
#2583 -
North Avenue (Near Jake's Deli), 1932Watercolor and graphite on paper15 1/4 x 22 inches
Signed and dated G.V. Sinclair '32 lower right; signed titled and dated on reverse.
#2815 -
Cherry Street Bridge, 1928Watercolor and graphite on paper15 1/2 x 21 3/4 inches
Signed and dated G.V. Sinclair '28 lower right; signed, titled, dated and numbered on reverse.
#4450 -
Rue de Lappe, Paris, 1930Watercolor and graphite on paper14 x 21 1/4 inches
Signed G.V. Sinclair, titled and dated upper right.
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Milwaukee Lake Front, 1947Tempera over watercolor on paper15 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches
Signed and dated Gerrit Sinclair 1947 upper right; signed, titled and numbered on reverse.
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Prospect Hill, ca. 1930sTempera over watercolor on paper14 x 20 1/2 inches
Signed G.V. Sinclair and titled lower right; signed, titled and numbered on reverse.
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Cigar Store, 1951Watercolor and graphite on paper15 1/4 x 22 inches
Signed Gerrit V. Sinclair lower right; signed, titled and dated on reverse.
#2813
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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