Raquette Lake作品

普伦蒂斯转向绘画静物主题，当他在1883年短暂地搬到纽约布鲁克林，集中在水果，按频率，苹果，草莓，桃子，李子，覆盆子，樱桃，甜瓜，梨，醋栗，菠萝，醋栗，葡萄和香蕉，通常高堆在壶或自然环境中。普伦蒂斯于1882年在纽约布法罗嫁给了一位名叫艾玛·罗斯洛·斯帕克斯的英国妇女，并生了两个孩子：利（生于1887年3月22日）和伊莫金（生于1889年9月17日）。他从1903年搬到1907年，然后定居在费城的德国城区。然而，直到20世纪70年代，他的作品才得到历史学家的认可，他是布鲁克林艺术协会的成员，经常在那里展出他的作品。除了他的艺术天赋，他还是一个喜欢自己制作刷子、调色板和画框的工匠。在他的绘画中，普伦蒂斯强调了黑暗的轮廓，并关注文本的精确性，创造了戏剧性的对比。在黑暗的背景区域和充满活力的水果色调之间的转换是为了给构图一种令人兴奋的视觉能量。水果呈现出清晰和精确。人们似乎把重点放在了人与自然的对立上。手工制作的钉子木制篮子代表了一个有结构的人造物体，而过熟的水果代表了大自然短暂的特质。这些绘画还展示了普伦蒂斯在渲染颜色、形式和纹理方面的非凡技能。艺术史学家威廉H.格特观察到普伦蒂斯的几部作品中，他达到了一种无与伦比的虚幻品质。1993年，在纽约阿迪朗达克博物馆的一个回顾展上，列维·威尔斯·普伦蒂斯巧妙的“幻象主义”受到了庆祝。他的作品继续受到现代收藏家的欣赏。他在许多博物馆都有代表，包括纽约州立博物馆、美术馆、波士顿、蒙特克莱尔艺术博物馆、菲尔布鲁克艺术博物馆和耶鲁大学美术馆。普伦蒂斯于1935年11月28日在宾夕法尼亚州的德国城去世。

   Levi Wells Prentice (December 18, 1851 – November 28, 1935) was an American still life and landscape painter. Prentice was associated with the Hudson River School.Prentice grew up on a farm in Lewis County, New York By 1872, Prentice had traveled through the Adirondack Mountains, painting the views as well as the surrounding region. He opened his first studio as a landscape painter in Syracuse, New York in 1875.Self-taught artist Levi Wells Prentice is best known for his realistic still life compositions of fruit arranged within a landscape, or abundantly spilling from bushel baskets. Early in his career, he painted portraits and landscapes of the Adirondack Mountain region of Lewis County, New York, his birthplace.He followed a self-prescribed educational path, begun by the Hudson River School and reinforced by John Ruskin's (1819–1900) truth-to-nature principles laid out in his book Modern Painters. Although he can be allied to both schools of thought, Prentice can not be considered a member of either. This book has a photo of the artist in his early Brooklyn studio surrounded by his paintings and a complete essay on his life and work.

  Prentice then turned to painting still life subjects when he moved briefly to Brooklyn, New York in 1883, focusing on fruit, in order of frequency apples, strawberries, peaches, plums, raspberries, cherries, muskmelons, pears, currants, pineapples, gooseberries, grapes and bananas usually piled high in pots or in natural settings.Prentice married an English woman, Emma Roseloe Sparks, in Buffalo, New York in 1882 and had two children, Leigh (born March 22, 1887) and Imogene (born September 17, 1889). He moved around from 1903 to 1907 before settling in the Germantown district of Philadelphia. However, his work did not gain much recognition with historians until the 1970s. He was a member of the Brooklyn Art Association and frequently exhibited his paintings there.In addition to his artistic talents, he was a craftsman who enjoyed making his own brushes, palettes and frames.In his painting, Prentice placed an emphasis on dark outlining with a concern for textual precision, creating dramatic contrasts. The shift between dark background areas and the vibrant hues of the fruit are done to give the compositions an exciting, visual energy. The fruit is presented with clarity and precision. An emphasis appears to be placed on the idea of man versus nature. The wooden baskets with hand-wrought nails represent a structured, man-made object, while the overly ripe fruit represents the fleeting qualities of nature. These paintings also demonstrate Prentice's remarkable skills at rendering color, form, and texture.

  Art historian William H. Gerdts observed that there are several works by Prentice in which he achieves a quality of illusionism which is unsurpassed. In 1993, the skillful "illusionism" of Levi Wells Prentice was celebrated in a retrospective exhibition at the Adirondack Museum in New York. His works continue to be appreciated by modern collectors. He is represented in many museums including the New York State Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Montclair Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, and Yale University Art Gallery.Prentice died November 28, 1935, in Germantown, Pennsylvania.