James Castle Abstract Landscape Watercolor Painting
$5,500.00
original outsider art watercolor painting
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Outsider art is defined as the style of art found by the untrained or the first hand. The passing of technical consideration and the expression of the artist’s fresh approach to the medium of paintings, drawings, and sculptures. This double-sided landscape painting for sale on All The Decor, part of our unique online art gallery, by artist James Charles Castle is a rare find and a fine addition to any interior decoration or fine art collection. Impressionist artwork or the painting of abstract expressionists take on similar forms, colors, and tones compared to the outside artists’ narratives. This work is a fine example of this comparison.
James Castle was a self-taught artist. Like other American 19th and 20th-century outsider artists, such as Bill Traylor, William Hawkins, and other outsiders, Castle’s artworks were created with found materials such as packaging discarded paper objects, cardboard boxes, and food containers. Castle’s primitive, broken-down style mixed inks and soot with tools of his own making, including sharpened sticks and handmade objects. His drawings a memoir of his memories of rural life during the early 20th century, depicting rustic interiors, buildings, farm animals, landscapes, and people.
This work of found paper materials displays a series of two—abstract expressionist landscapes of day and night. The midnight sky depicted in a wash of blotted and stained navy blues a single figurative shape, dotting the right portion of the enveloped edge of the card. The scene of day reverse depicts a burned and washes ocean blue sky and a burned sand-colored structure placed to the left of the canvas, marred by the underlayer of debris and stains accumulated to the sheet, in the mediums former life.
This work came to us from a longtime collector of American folk art and was acquired before our receipt through the J. Crist Gallery. This is a compelling American narrative of the life of the early 20th century and a vivid and full colorful work of modern art befitting any 20th-century interior.
James Castle was a self-taught artist. Like other American 19th and 20th-century outsider artists, such as Bill Traylor, William Hawkins, and other outsiders, Castle’s artworks were created with found materials such as packaging discarded paper objects, cardboard boxes, and food containers. Castle’s primitive, broken-down style mixed inks and soot with tools of his own making, including sharpened sticks and handmade objects. His drawings a memoir of his memories of rural life during the early 20th century, depicting rustic interiors, buildings, farm animals, landscapes, and people.
This work of found paper materials displays a series of two—abstract expressionist landscapes of day and night. The midnight sky depicted in a wash of blotted and stained navy blues a single figurative shape, dotting the right portion of the enveloped edge of the card. The scene of day reverse depicts a burned and washes ocean blue sky and a burned sand-colored structure placed to the left of the canvas, marred by the underlayer of debris and stains accumulated to the sheet, in the mediums former life.
This work came to us from a longtime collector of American folk art and was acquired before our receipt through the J. Crist Gallery. This is a compelling American narrative of the life of the early 20th century and a vivid and full colorful work of modern art befitting any 20th-century interior.
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2.5 x 4.25 inches.
Condition
The hand-cut card, as found, with rough-cut edges.
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