ARTIST: Frederick Mortimer Lamb (Massachusetts, 1861 - 1936)
NAME: Dog - Boxer
YEAR: 1910
MEDIUM: watercolor and gouache on paper
CONDITION: One faint horizontal crease line. Some age toning. Framed under glass. Glass has a crack.
SIGHT SIZE: 11 x 11 inches / 27 x 27 cm
FRAME SIZE: 13 x 13 inches / 33 x 33 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
Adolf Arthur Dehn
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
SKU#: 116862
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BIOGRAPHY:
Was born in Middleboro, May 5, 1861, the son of August and Ardelia (Monk) Lamb. At the age of 17 he entered Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston and studied under Arthur Smith of England. This school was the first of its type in America. Later he taught modeling in clay and casting and painting in oil
from still life at the New England Consevatory of Music. He later was associated with the Boston Art Museum School of Art. He studied in Paris at the Julien Academy.
He was affiliated with the Boston Art Club, American Federation of Arts, Society of American Water Color Painters, New York Water Color Club, Washington Society of Water Color Painters, New Haven Paint and Clay Club, and the Boston Society of Water Color Painters.
Mr. Lamb was a highly skillful artist in many phases of painting. His murals in the corridor of City Hall in Brockton have won admiration from the citizens of that city as well as the many out-of-town visitors who pass through the building.
Mr. Lamb was awarded a silver medal at the Panama Pacific international exhibition in San Francisco for his picture, "Our New England". This picture was proclaimed by leading art critics as typifying the real New England.
"The End of the Trail," a life-size painting of hounds picking up a fox, was the only animal picture accepted by the Boston jury to be shown at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. More than 600 pictures of various types were passed on by the jury. It was later shown in San Francisco and numerous exhibitions
throughout the country. While being shown in Philadelphia it was stolen from the gallery and recovered three years later.
"Trailing Quail" in water colors has been admired in every exhibition in which it has been shown. It has the distinction of having been accepted by the jurors at the New York water color exhibition.
Mr. Lamb observed his 50th anniversary as an artist about eight years ago and at that time said the work of an artist was never completed. He believed the subject offered new study and achievement through a lifetime. He contended that a man who specialized in one subject of art could not rightfully pose
as an artist as the scope was too broad to permit narrowing down to any particular branch.
Mr. Lamb showed remarkable versatility in his work. Whether his medium was oil, water color or pastel, he interpreted his subject equally well. His landscapes were painted with breadth and atmosphere.