"Item #AT-0503- Robert Hallowell (1886-1939) "Drying Sails, Collioure, 1926" Watercolor on Paper

Item #AT-0503
Robert Hallowell (1886-1939)
"Drying Sails, Collioure, 1926" Watercolor on Paper

Description:

Robert Hallowell (1886-1939)

Drying Sails, Collioure, 1926
Watercolor on Paper
19” x 22.5 “ Unframed
25” x 28.5” Framed

Signed lower right
Dated 26
Verso: Museum Labels
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1926, The Brooklyn Museum 1927

Provenance:
Estate Rumson New Jersey

Exhibition:
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
The Brooklyn Museum 1927
Collioure is a town on the Mediterranean coast of southern France.

Robert Hallowell was born March 12, 1886, in Denver, Colorado. In 1900, his family moved to Willington, Delaware. Mr. Hollowell attended The Friends School in Wilmington, Delaware, and Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard in 1910. While at Harvard, he illustrated a children's book, and for two years he was the president of "The Harvard Lampoon," in which some of his early work appeared. Hallowell was also an active member of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

After graduation, he produced illustrations for The Century Magazine and The American Magazine until 1914. Later in 1914, he assisted in founding The New Republic Magazine and was the treasurer until 1925. The New Republic was founded to bring liberalism into the modern era. The founders understood that the challenges facing a nation transformed by the Industrial Revolution and mass immigration required bold new thinking.
From 1925 to 1929, he was a member of the board of vice presidents of Survey Associates "A Journal of Constructive Philanthropy" and contributed illustrations to the survey graphic. Mr. Hallowell served as assistant to Holger Cahill, director of The Federal Art Project, part of the “New Deal” program in 1935, 1936, and worked with the project as a special advisor in 1937.

A self-taught artist in watercolors and oils, Mr. Hallowell exhibited his works in the United States and abroad. He exhibited publicly for the first time in 1924 at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris. In 1925, he exhibited at the Druitt Galerie, Paris. He also exhibited at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts in 1926, The Brooklyn Museum in 1927, and the Montross Gallery in New York from 1924 to 1929. In 1933, Hallowell was invited to participate in “The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition of Fruit and Flower Paintings." Some of the participants included Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, Georgia O’Keefe, Henri Fantin Latour, Olilion Redon, Henri Rousseau, Edward Manet, and Vincent Van Gogh.

Mr. Halloway's first marriage in 1916 to Charlotte Rudegard, assistant editor of Harper's Magazine, ended in a divorce in 1926. Later, he married Aurelia Caloenesco, a Romanian artist. Their paintings were shown jointly in exhibitions in the Rehn Gallery, Ferargil Galleries, and Macbeth Gallery in New York, as well as in Chicago and Philadelphia. They also held invitational exhibitions at The Rochester Museum of Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington.

His work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), The Metropolitan Museum, Brooklyn Museum, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Rochester Museum of Art, The Phillips Memorial Gallery in Washington, The Lewis Sun College Collection, N.Y., Delaware Art Museum, Art Museum at the University of Saint Joseph, Hartford CT, Bates Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, Addison Gallery of Art Andover, Massachusetts, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY, and Harvard University Museum. One of Robert Halloway's best-known works is the portrait of the late John S. Reed, which hangs in Adam's House at Harvard.
Robert Hallowell died January 26, 1939, at the Staten Island Hospital of a heart attack. He was 52 years old.