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Posted 12 years ago
nldionne
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Need info on this please. Picked it up at auction today would like to know if it is worth anything. Even if not it's going on my wall somewhere. I like it. It appears to be an original drawing, there are draw marks. As always thanks for looking.
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thanks mustang
thanks bellin 5 bucks. I love it...
know anything about this one brat?
Thank blundetbuss, walksoftly and AmbetRose
Thanks Phil!
Sorry for the typo blunderbuss and AmberRose.
Mustang, any idea where to get info on this?
You could try contacting this organization in Rockport
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art
http://cmcanow.org/about/mission-history
Thanks walksoftly, you are wonderful!
You're most welcome, let us know if it leads somewhere.
Walksoftly, this is information I received on this scetch. Could not give me value but is interesting. Thanks again for your time
Leslie Cope (1913 - 2002)
Leslie Cope was a prolific artist dedicated to his work and committed to the simple virtues of rural life, seascapes and landscapes in the United States and in his native England. He has been selling his art since the 1930's.
Popular among his works are subjects that deal with the common work horse, country scenes, barnyards, coal mining from the early 1930's, bridges, rural landscapes, village sketches, fair and carnival scenes, and canal studies to mention a few. Cope faithfully recorded southeast Ohio and loved to return often to Mt Hope and Millersburg.
He drew from memory and old sketches to bring to life scenes from his native England depicting pottery towns, the tall bottle kilns of Stoke-on-Trent where he was born, canal and street scenes from the turn of the century England in its industrial heyday, and simple rustic moments of a familiar past with a country he never abandoned.
Cope returned annually to Gloucester Massachusetts to paint seascapes, harbor scenes, and rows of fishing boats with his wife Velma. They also made frequent trips to western states, reveling in the sights of small herds of roaming mustang and wild horses they found and sketched. Cope painted desert towns as well as Indian encampments.
Not commonly known are Cope's numerous sketches of his active duty during WW2 while stationed in Guam. Cope was a camouflage expert with the U.S. Air Force then.
His works are in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Library of Congress, and Capitol University.
He has had one-man shows in the Library of Congress and The Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C.
Honors and awards have been given him in juried shows at the National Academy, the Society of Graphic Artists, and the Society of Academic Artists.
Copes works have been recognized in England and Paris, and in 1975 he was named to Who's Who in America.
Wow, lucky you to have a piece from such a talented & honored artist.
Thanks for sharing it & the info.
David
Thanks brat thanks again David
Thanks vetraio