Description: South Shore framed oil on canvas painting by C. Kermit Ewing 1966, signed bottom right and signed, titled and dated en verso. Approx. canvas size; 22" x 30"Framed size; 27" x 35" *Shipping includes Insurance. Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Kermit "Buck" Ewing graduated from Carnegie Mellon University where he later taught art. Ewing started the University of Tennessee's visual arts program after moving to Knoxville in 1948. The department began with 35 students based out of a three-bedroom house on W. Cumberland Avenue. "Buck" Ewing was renowned for his figurative and landscape paintings that explored abstract expressionism and pop art. His painting here, "Sports Final", depicts a newspaper seller on Kingston Pike in Knoxville in 1949. In addition to solo art shows, Ewing collaborated with others to form two- and three-artist shows, but it was the addition of Philip Nichols to UT's art faculty in the late 1950s that sparked the creation of the "Knoxville Seven" - a loose coalition of regional artists also including Carl Sublett, Robert Birdwell, Joanne Higgs Ross, Richard Clarke, and Walter "Holly" Stevens. Heralded as a seminal event during the 1963 Dogwood Arts Festival at UT's McClung Museum, the Seven Knoxville Artists of America exhibition saw Ewing and Stevens famously sporting bowler hats and white tuxedos with "Knoxville 7" stenciled. in 1963, Ewing also formed the Knoxville Watercolor Society to promote the medium as a "significant art form" and continued to expand UT's visual arts program. He remained head of department until he died of a heart attack while visiting Bali, Indonesia, in 1976. Five years after his death, UT finally realized the Art and Architecture Building, which Ewing had envisioned and advocated for many years. The Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, located in that building, is named in his honor. More than fifty years after the original event, the Knoxville Museum of Art held a major exhibition on the Knoxville Seven in 2016.
Price: 700 USD
Location: Marietta, Georgia
End Time: 2024-10-22T20:23:09.000Z
Shipping Cost: 85 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Artist: Charles Kermit Ewing
Signed By: C. Kermit Ewing
Size: Large
Signed: Yes
Title: South Shore
Material: Canvas
Certificate of Authenticity (COA): No
Framing: Framed
Subject: Seascape, Seaside
Type: Painting
Year of Production: 1966
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Item Height: 27 in
Theme: Nature, Seascape
Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
Production Technique: Oil Painting
Item Width: 35 in
Handmade: Yes
