Charles Wheeler Locke

The Fall of The Rebel Angels

Charles Wheeler Locke's original etching "The Fall of The Rebel Angels" is printed upon fine, hand-made, laid paper with the 'Rives' watermark and with full margins as published around 1940. Although the American artist, Charles Wheeler Locke is best known as a lithographic artist, he was also a fine painter and etcher. "The Fall of the Rebel Angels" is one of his most delightful works in the latter medium. Taking a classic Baroque theme that we associate with old masters, such as Rubens, Locke portrays the awkward bodies of everyday New Yorkers. Note the hats! -- particularly the busman's hat on one of the central figures. The falling angels are not as tragic as they are uncomfortable: it is as if they are experiencing an overcrowded ride at Coney Island.

The Fall of The Rebel Angels

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Title:	The Fall of The Rebel Angels
Artist:	Locke, Charles Wheeler (Cincinnati, 1899 - Garrison, New York, 1983)
Date:	c. 1940
Medium:	Original Etching
Note:	Charles Wheeler Locke: One of America’s leading artists of the first half of the twentieth century, Charles Wheeler Locke first studied art in his native Cincinnati at the Mechanics Ohio Institute. In 1921 he became a student at the Art Students League, New York, and studied under John Weis, H. H. Wessel and Joseph Pennell. Pennell (the disciple and biographer of Whistler) was the leading force of American printmaking at this time. He quickly recognized Locke’s talents (particularly in the medium of lithography) and hired him as his primary assistant. In 1923 Pennell selected Locke to succeed him as Instructor of Lithography at the Art Students League.
	From 1925, Charles Locke’s lithographs of the docks,, wharves and streets of New York and Brooklyn gained international recognition. His role as a teacher was also important. Among other accomplishments, Locke introduced John Stewart Curry to lithography and helped to influence his early work.
	Charles Locke was a full member of the Society of American Etchers, the American Printmakers, the American Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers and the Century Club, New York, and was an Associate of the National Academy of Design. Today his art is included in such major collections as the British Museum, London, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Carnegie Institute, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City.
Edition:	"The Fall of the Rebel Angels" was never published in an edition and it is known to exist in only a handful of unsigned impressions. Charles Wheeler Locke probably printed the plate himself and the slight smudge of printer's ink one sees in the lower left margin is perhaps his fingerprint.
Provenance:	This original etching entitled, The Fall of the Rebel Angels was formerly in the collection of David and Rita Lebarre, New York City. The Labarre Collection of American Prints and Drawings was one of the most extensive private collections of 20th Century American Art.
Size:	11 X 9 7/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Buy Now	Price: $395.00 US
Condition:	Printed upon fine, hand-made, laid paper with the ‘Rives’ watermark and with full margins. A strongly printed impression and in very good condition throughout. The Fall of the Rebel Angels represents a scarce, original example of the famous American art of Charles Wheeler Locke.
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