Tod Lindenmuth

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Tod Lindenmuth, American,(1885 - 1976). Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Tod Lindenmuth was a painter known for marine and landscape paintings. His heritage was Pennsylvania Dutch, and his father, Arlington Lindenmuth, was also a painter but made his living running a photography studio. Tod Lindenmuth studied with Robert Henri and was a member of the Salmagundi Club and the Rockport Art Association. Lindenmuth exhibited regularly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)from 1917-1933. He was also active in Provincetown, MA until 1941, and then retired to Florida in the 1960s,having spent his winters there since the 1930s. Lindenmuth described his "interest in painting is in the arrangement of natural objects with contrasting color and form, plus design in a semi-abstract manner." In this painting, Lindenmuth offers his almost abstract interpretation of one of the most painted Cape Ann subjects, Motif #1,the dark red shack located on Bearskin Neck wharf in Rockport, Massachusetts. According to John L. Cooley, author of the "Rockport Sketch Book", America's most-painted building received its name in an impulsive exclamation by Lester Hornby. This illustrator and etcher taught in Paris in the winter; his pupils, in the French manner, drew certain standard subjects or motifs. During his summer seasons in Rockport, Hornby noted that many pupils chose the venerable, dilapidated shed on the edge of the inner harbor. Its prominence and its simple but interesting proportions made it a natural model for sketches and paintings, good and bad. One day when a student brought for criticism a pencil drawing of the house, Hornby exclaimed, "What-Motif No 1 again!"It has been that ever since." Another interpretation of Motif No. 1 by Jacob Greenleaf is currently also on exhibit in our online gallery. Credit:    Falk; Who Was Who in American Art On exhibit: "Motif #1, Rockport, MA", Signed lower left. Oil on board. 12" x 16" Price $

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