Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 20" x 36"
Frame: 28" x 44"
Condition: overall great condition
Circa: 1890-1909

Artist: Frank Paul Sauerwein (1871 - 1910)

Frank Paul Sauerwein was active/lived in Colorado, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Connecticut, New Jersey. Frank Sauerwein is known for landscape, Indian figure and genre painting.

Several of Sauerwein's Grand Canyon paintings are known. One, an oil, in the Judge Hamlin Collection, titled View of Grand Canyon, is of a trail in the foreground, rather dark, with the bright canyon walls in the distance. A watercolor as well as an oil, both field sketches, were once in the collection of W.D. Hollister of Denver. The former Emory Kolb, a noted photographer and rafter of the Grand Canyon, previously owned an oil painting by Sauerwein; the view is of Hopi or Rowe Point, about 600 feet below the rim.

The last letter Sauerwein wrote the Mareans from Grandview, Arizona in 1906 was a brief note, dated July 12, referenced as letter 10, in which he mentioned his continued painting of Grand Canyon scenery, a trip into the desert and the possibility of a visit to Denver late in the year.

In 1911 Bert Phillips authored an essay describing the Taos Art Colony, in which he included then-deceased Sauerwein along with all of the Taos founders (except Dunton, who did not visit Taos until 1912). Phillips' observations were succinct. Almost across the street from the studio of [Bert Phillips] stands the home of Frank Sauerwein. There that younger painter, a man of fine talent, enthusiasm and lover of Indian life came to finish the last of his life's work a few years after he had crossed that difficult bridge that brings one into the land of 'The artists who have arrived.' Just as his hand and mind had reached their power and when his art gave forth the fruit long promised, Death took his brush and palette from his hand. Now his ashes are blown by the winds that sweep the deep recesses of nature's masterpiece of sculpture and color - the Grand Canyon of [the] Colorado [River]. Sauerwein only caught a few of the poems of color that his associates are still recording but [his paintings] have their own individuality and charm which will have their place in the grand total that will sum up the work of the 'Taos Colony' and his influence will live on until the finish.

est. 2500-4500

Provenance, Private collection in New Jersey

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