Ernest Clifford Peixotto (1869-1940) (artist)
#3: Oropa in the Pennine Alps
Numbered on verso: 19039 [crossed out]
Italy: 1924
Pen and ink on illustration board
Titled on mat lower left, and signed lower left: E.C. Peixotto - Oropa
Inscribed verso: Oropa (a sanctuary in North Italy)
9 x 14 inches, site size
10.75 x 15.25 inches, overall
18 x 22 inches, mat
Provenance: Estate of the artist
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Oropa in the Pennine Alps
Ernest Clifford Peixotto
Ernest Clifford Peixotto
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Tonal wash drawing of the Sanctuary of Madonna di Oropa in the Pennine Alps in Italy. Visitors walk up the steps of sunlit buildings. Clouds roll over the tops of mountain peaks in the background. Peixotto’s skillful depictions of architecture won him an honorary membership in the American Institute of Architects. Peixotto was also closely associated with the American Composer Timothy Mather Spelman (1891-1970) and his wife, poet Leolyn Louise Everett Spellman (1888-1971), whose Villa Razzolini was a gathering place for artists and intellectuals visiting Italy.
The sanctuary is traditionally believed to have been founded by St. Eusebio in the 4th century and consists of a group of baroque buildings in a multilevel arrangement in a hollow, flanked by forest and meadows. The site is considered one of the most important pilgrimage destinations in Italy.
Peixotto was born in San Francisco and studied at the San Francisco School of Design and at l’Academie Julian in Paris. He returned to San Francisco in 1894 and founded the art magazine The Lark. He left again in 1897 to divide his time between New York City and a villa he owned at Fontainebleau. Known for oil, watercolor, and sketch work in murals, portraits, and landscapes, he was appointed an official artist for the American Expeditionary forces in World War I by General John Pershing. Peixotto returned to New York after the war and became one of the highest paid artists of his time in the magazine illustration industry. His work has appeared in Harper’s and Scribner’s, Theodore Roosevelt’s Life of Cromwell, and a number of other books.
References:
Baglieri, Salvatore. “Piemonte.” La Mia Italia. 2001. http://utenti.lycos.it/clubdellegalline/piemonteenglish.htm (27 July 2004).
Falk, Peter Hastings, ed. Who Was Who in American Art. Madison, Connecticut: Sound View Press, 1985. p. 477.
“Views from a Villa: The Spelman Legacy.” The Sheridan Library of the Johns Hopkins University. 9 November 2000. http://www.library.jhu.edu/librarydean/exrel/whatsnew/press/archives/pressrel00/nov9-00.html (27 July 2004).