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Silver Lake by John Polka

Painting
John Polka, "Silver Lake, Saugatuck, MI" or "Silver Lake", 1990 - Oil on canvas, gilt gold embossed, carved frame. An impressionistic landscape with bold pink strokes in the sky, the water in the middle distance and among the green lily pads in the foreground.
riverPolka.jpg 3.6MB

2008.07.03

Easel

Oil

This view of Silver Lake, south of Douglas, is a good example of how Polka combined Impressionism with influences from Expressionism, yet was able to remain "just this side" of Abstraction. The colors are so bold and "raw" that they almost take on "personality". Polka studies both in Europe and later, at Ox-Bow. In the 1960s, he opened a studio in Saugatuck where he taught and painted landscapes and portraits of people and animals.

Artworks

Voss, Mary

Polka, John 1930-2006

1990

Technique: impasto

Signed Name: Polka Signature Location: bottom right

PaintingPolka, JohnSilver Lake

20 in

24 in

Frame Size: 28h x 31.75w

AC bay 09

Art Conservation Room

Good

Polka, John 1930-2006

Status: OK Status By: Mary Voss Status Date: 2008-04-14

04/14/2008

09/03/2024