Title: Church Landscape
Medium: Oil on board
Style: Abstract
Size: 22 x 27"
Frame Size: 29" x 34"
Age: 1950s
Condition: Good, no damage seen
good condition for its age.
Artist: Theodore Van Soelen (1890 - 1964)
Theodore Van Soelen was active/lived in New Mexico, Minnesota. Theodore Van Soelen is known for southwest landscape, genre, history and portrait painting.


Van Soelen was a student of the St. Paul Institute 1908-11. He studied at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 1911-15, following which he began work as an artist. Because of tuberculosis he went to the Utah-Nevada mountains, then in 1916 to Albuquerque where he worked as a commercial illustrator. In 1920-21, he lived at San Ysidro's Indian trading post to gain experience with the land and its inhabitants. He had a one-man exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum. In 1922 Van Soelen moved to Santa Fe, then in 1926 became a permanent resident of neighboring Tesuque.

Her exhibited with the New Mexico Painters society, which combined the best of Taos and Santa Fe. He retained his own illustrators style with its apparent realism. Like Thomas Moran he freely reassembled compositional elements to depict the allure of New Mexico: "If reproductions of Van Soelen pictures were used on railway time-tables, the trains to Santa Fe, Taos, etc would be far more crowded than they are at present."

His specialty was ranch scenes but he also painted landscapes objectively as well as many official portraits. By the 1930s, the demand for his paintings was large enough in the East to permit him to establish a second studio in Connecticut, although his affiliations remained in New Mexico. In addition, he wrote for Field and Stream.

Resource: SAMUELS' Encyclopedia of ARTISTS of THE AMERICAN WEST,
Peggy and Harold Samuels, 1985, Castle Publishing


Provenance:
Collection from Estate in New Jersey


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good, no damage seen