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New Deal Gallery
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This collection of more than 200 paintings owes its existence to two primary causes: allocations from the Federal Art Project to a New York state tuberculosis sanatorium located at Mt. Morris--the landscapes and still lifes were thought to be restful--and to the committed volunteers who helped preserve the paintings after the hospital closed. For several decades the canvases were stored in non-climate-controlled basements; it appears that doctors and staff removed at least three dozen works as "keepsakes." <br /><br />Despite the seeming tranquility of the paintings, they were created by artists primarily from New York City whose background was more political and aesthetically adventurous than this rural location would indicate. <a href="https://openvalley.org/exhibits/show/green-new-deal/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Follow this hyperlink to a short introduction to the New Deal Gallery collection</a>. We're grateful to the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts for access to their collection, which has been re-photographed and appears here at two resolutions: a cropped, web-friendly file size of around 1 MB; and a high-resolution file including the painting's frame.<br /><br />Items in this collection were created according to a consistent format: a short description of each painting in formal terms, followed by a biography of each artist. Where possible we have supplied hyperlinks relevant to their lives and to other examples of their art. In order to better view them using the Omeka program, click on the "View All" option at the bottom of this page to access various sorting options.
Date
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1935-1940
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken (project director)
Ritz, Abigail (photography and project assistant)
Additional research: Justin Anderson, Jessica Apthorpe, Jay Bang, Kristopher Bangsil, Julia Caldwell, Sydney Cannioto, Sabrina Chan, Paige Closser, Victoria Domon, Elana Evenden, Yadelin Fernandez, Michael Griffin, Madison Jackson, Niamh McCrohan, Ben Michalak, Ricky Noel, Elizabeth Ramsay, Skye Rose, Samantha Schmeer, John Serbalik, Marianna Sheedy, Emily Spina, Alison Stern, Ravenna VanOstrand, and Nicholas Vanamee.
Special thanks to: Deborah Bump, Mark Calicchia, Elizabeth Harris, Melissa Moody, Rebecca Lomuto, and Mai Sato.
Still Image
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Original Format
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Oil painting
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Title
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The Pool in Autumn
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jpeg, 992 KB
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<p>The familiar phrase “peak color” receives an ecstatic new meaning in Nordell’s transcendentalist vision, where sun illuminates woodland foliage in fiery hues, then doubles them in a reflecting pool. His figurative rendering of the scene edges toward an impressionist composition in leaf-colors; upstate New Yorkers know this moment and this feeling.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br />About the Artist</span>: Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Nordell immigrated to the US when he was seven years old and grew up in “a large family with poor parents” in Westerly, RI (<em>Norwich Bulletin</em> 7 April 1910: 6). He nevertheless was able to attend the Rhode Island School of Design, where his talents soon were recognized and led to a productive career, both as a landscape painter and sought-after portraitist. Nordell studied at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_C._Tarbell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Edmund C. Tarbell</a>; the Art Students League under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bridgman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Bridgman</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_DuMond" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frank DuMond</a>; and the Académie Julian, Paris, under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Laurens" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jean-Paul Laurens</a>. In 1910 <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015086590703;view=1up;seq=214" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he was awarded</a> the James William Paige Traveling Scholarship for study in Europe. He married <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Tl0_m4YaXqkC&pg=PA217&lpg=PA217&dq=emma+alice+nordell+biography&source=bl&ots=nyyviVkDG3&sig=ACfU3U30I4JzEcODq2lO6W28jgz1rayKYw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiOgPCE4K_gAhXpm-AKHa23AKUQ6AEwCXoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=emma%20alice%20nordell%20biography&f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emma Alice Parker</a>, an accomplished painter in her own right, in 1912. Nordell’s art was exhibited widely, at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco; the Corcoran Gallery; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; and many others. Nordell appears to have had a special affinity for Western New York, often showing his work at Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Gallery and Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery; beginning in the late 1920s he spent summers at Chautauqua painting landscapes. Later he lived not far from Lake Erie in Westfield, NY. 2 works at <a href="http://museums.fivecolleges.edu/info.php?s=Nordell&type=all&museum=all&t=objects" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mead Art Museum</a>. 2 works at the <a href="http://www.clevelandart.org/art/collection/search?search=Nordell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cleveland Museum of Art</a>.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Source Consulted</span>: Michael Preston Worley, “Carl Nordell,” <a href="http://www.askart.com/artist/Carl_John_David_Nordell/24035/Carl_John_David_Nordell.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">askART</a></p>
Creator
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Nordell, Carl [Johan David], 1885-1957
Publisher
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Federal Art Project
Date
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1935-1940
Contributor
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Ritz, Abigail (photography)
Cooper, Ken (biography)
Source
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New Deal Gallery, Genesee Valley Council on the Arts
Object #FA18225
Type
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Still image
Identifier
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Carl Nordell
Federal Art Project
New Deal Gallery
painting