George Biddle

Tree Tops

George Biddle's original pen and ink drawing, "Tree Tops" depicts a Polynesian village. This drawing displays Biddle's lifelong concern with design concepts by its brilliant use of space and by sure placed forms which suggest rather than delineate. Only an accomplished hand could create such a full and rich composition with so few lines. "Tree Tops" is drawn on pure rag, laid paper and with full margins. It is signed and dated by the American artist, George Biddle. It is also dedicated to 'David and Marussia' Burliuk, who were close friends of the artist.

Tree Tops

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Title:	Tree Tops
Artist:	Biddle, George (Philadelphia, 1885 - Croton-On-Hudson, New York, 1973)
Date:	1956
Medium:	Original Pen & Ink Drawing
Note:	George Biddle: Belonging to one of Philadelphia's most affluent families, George Biddle initially followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps, receiving his law degree from Harvard University in 1911. He then (to the dismay of his relations) announced that he was determined to become a painter. For the following four years George Biddle studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, the Julian Academy, Paris and under Ole Nordmark at the Munich Academy in Germany. Shortly thereafter the United States entered World War One and Biddle served two years in the infantry.
	When the War ended (1918), George Biddle again returned to study in Paris. He began, however, to tire of critical and stylistic teaching methods and abruptly moved to a remote Polynesian village where he lived and worked for the following two years. The experience shaped Biddle's art for the remainder of his career.
	When George Biddle returned to the United States in the early 1920's he quickly became one of America's finest artists. Now critical of European artistic abstraction he was at the vanguard of the growing movement toward realism in American art. Major government commissions for his sculpture and mural paintings followed -- including his famous murals for the Department of Justice Building in Washington, DC As well, in the 1930's, George Biddle worked closely with President Roosevelt to institute the highly successful Federal Arts Project which aided American artists during the years of the Depression.
	George Biddle was Vice-president of the American Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers and President of the American Society of Mural Painters. His paintings, drawings and lithographs are included in many major, international galleries such as, the Metropolitan and Whitney Museums, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Kaiser Friedrich's Museum, Berlin, and the Galeria d'Arte Moderna, Venice, Italy.
	Treetops depicts a Polynesian village. This fine drawing displays Biddle's lifelong concern with design concepts by its brilliant use of space and by sure placed forms which suggest rather than delineate. Only an accomplished hand could create such a full and rich composition with so few lines.
Provenance:	This original drawing was formerly in the collection of David and Marussia Burliuk. David Burliuk (Ukraine, 1882 - New York, 1967) was an important artist of international stature. He was the co-founder of the Futurist art movement in Russia and a founding member in Germany of both Der Blaue Reiter and Der Sturm. He moved to the United States in 1922. His wife, Marussia Burliuk, was the first publisher of the avant guarde arts magazine, Color Rhyme, founded in 1930. This fine George Biddle drawing is dedicated to them.
Size:	9 1/2 X 12 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Drawn on pure rag, laid paper and with full margins. Signed and dated by George Biddle in the lower left corner and dedicated to 'David and Marussia' Burliuk, who were close friends of the artist. The drawing contains slight foxing, particularly in the lower margin, else in good condition throughout.
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