THE BROAD AXE
by: Allan Blagden
Location: Lobby of Pillar & Post
Medium: Watercolour, Ganache and Pencil on Paper
Country: USA
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The Broad Axe, an original painting from American artist Allen Blagden, depicts a man looking out from Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks with Lake Placid in the distance.
The Rockefeller family first purchased this piece from the artist, Allen Blagden in 2009. Blagden later wrote to the David Rockefeller regarding the work, “I am so glad that The Broad Axe is now part of your collection because it has always been one of my best works, and a good memory of my youthful years in the Adirondacks.” The Broad Axe now resides in the lobby at Pillar and Post in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
The Broad Axe has been exhibited at the Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries in Chicago, Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, the Lake Placid Center for the Arts and The Hotchkiss School, Tremaine Gallery in Connecticut.
Allen Blagden is recognized as one of the most outstanding watercolourists of his time. His penetrating renderings of sky and water, of people, birds and landscapes fall within the academic traditions of the best of American realist painting.
Sources:
(2018). Allen Blagden (b. 1938), The Broad Axe. Christie's. https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/collection-peggy-david-rockefeller-online-sale/allen-blagden-b-1938-1670/55301
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