by Stephen B. O'Brien, Jr.
& Julie Carlson Wildfeuer
Published: 2009
Limited to 1,000 copies
Hardcover
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227 Pages
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11"
x 12"
This is the most comprehensive book to date on the artist, chronicling
paintings from his early life and work, illustrations and murals, landscapes and
cityscapes, scenes of the south and his well-known sporting art. The 230 page
book includes over 200 color images. Through the numerous illustrations, The
Art of Aiden Lassell Ripley documents the artist’s progression and growth,
from his initial rise as an Impressionist to his accurate and detailed
depictions of his outdoor passions that continue to shape sporting art today.
The product of extensive research, this book is the most complete account of the
artist’s life and work. O’Brien literally retraced the artist’s footsteps
traveling hundreds of miles from the beautiful lowland quail country of northern
Florida to the wild Atlantic salmon rivers of northern New Brunswick. O’Brien
spent countless hours examining the work of the artist in order to observe
Ripley’s
artistic evolution and gathered additional research through personal interviews
with friends of the artist. The authors read through the extensive biographical
data held in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution. They
reviewed old exhibition catalogs, past articles and personal letters in order to
present a thorough account of Aiden Lassell Ripley’s (1896-1969) life.
