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About Carl G. Cutler
Exhibition record:
Paris Salon of 1899, no. 524
Art Institute of Chicago,
1899 Annual, no. 74
Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, 1900 Annual, no. 128
Cutler is an example of a painter who began in the genteel Salon milieu who grew into a modernist later on in his career. His training was in the Boston School tradition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. From there he transferred to the academies of Paris where his teachers were Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens. In 1899 he exhibited this work, La Mansarde and Mère et enfant at the Paris Salon. He re-exhibited both of these works at the Art Institute of Chicago later that year. In 1900 The Attic showed up again at the Pennsylvania Academy’s annual show. Even at this early date, Cutler reveals a special interest in color, while most Salon painters maintained a naturalistic palette of grays, yellow ochers, dull reds, and brown hues. The surprising, bold purple and yellow shawl and the green fabric hanging behind the easel contrast with the neutral brown, tan and gold hues of the model’s skirt and the various wood surfaces in La Mansarde |
Paintings by Carl G. Cutler
| La Mansarde (The Attic) |
| oil on canvas: 51 x 38 inches |
| signed: lower right |
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