Harry B. Lachman (1886-1975)

American School

FIELDS NORMANDY – FRANCE, 1921

(#19578)

9 x 25½ inches / 14 x 30 framed

Oil on wooden panel

Signed and dated lower right with brown oil paint: “HARRY B. LACHMAN . 21”

Written in pencil upper right on verso: “FIELDS NORMANDY”

Brushed in ink half way up verso of panel: “34A”

Provenance:          Estate of the Artist

                    Private Collection, Los Angeles, California

                    Adamson-Duvannes Galleries,

      Downey, California, since August 2021

     A multi-talented man, Harry Lachman was a successful motion picture director, “Saturday Evening Post” illustrator, and celebrated portrait photographer.  However, first and foremost, Lachman was a painter of the Post-Impressionist school.  

     Lachman studied painting in Paris at the dawn of the 20th Century.  His serious painting began after his arrival in Paris in 1913, and he painted for 18 memorable years alongside Matisse, Modigliani, Utrillo and Picasso.  While still relatively young, Lachman was recognized as the most French of the American painters for the emotion and tenderness expressed in his French landscapes.  He was one of the few American artists to be awarded the French Legion of Honor.

     FIELDS NORMANDY embraces all the qualities of a Lachman French landscape with its rich textures and vivid hues. In the words of Irving Stone, novelist and art critic, “Lachman’s painting has quality because it lives and breathes and glows, not only with the textures of the paint, but with the rich tactile feel of the lush green fields, of earth and root and leaf.  The dominant beauty is warmth and tenderness for the countryside.”

Harry Lachman

FIELDS NORMANDY

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terature:               “Harry Lachman: A Link with the Impressionists”,

                    American Artist, October 1962, pp. 20-26.

                    “Lachman: Post-Impressionist”, Dalzell Hatfield Exhibition

                    Catalogue, Los Angeles, California, 1959

Video:               “IMPRESSIONS: Harry Lachman”, video written, produced and

                    directed by Paul Fuentes, Aired on KHJ-TV Channel 9,

                    Los Angeles, Saturday, November 17, 1962.

Museum

Collections:          Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

                    Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio

                    Musee du Luxembourg, Paris, France

                    Musee du Petit Palais, Paris, France

                    Museum of Modern Art, Rome, Italy

                    Isaac Delgado Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana

                    Brooks Memorial Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee