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October Day on Lake Kalamazoo

Painting
Oil-on-canvas landscape painting in a wooden, gilt frame with carved, Acanthus details in the corners. The top half of the painting is a blue sky with high cloud formations. The bare sand peak of Mt. Baldhead (minus a tower) and the Big Pavilion are visible across Lake Kalamazoo in the middle distance. In the foreground are orange, yellow, red and green trees and a strip of grassland. Two tags on the back of the frame date the work as 1929. An alternate title is "Lake Kalamazoo with View of Saugatuck"
October Day on Lake Kalamazoo picture number 1
back penciled note on of back of frame Penciled note on back of frame possibly part of bank inventory since all items in donation have the same marks.; 9172 - 36 1/4 x ?1/4 M? D U 11 - 60526 tag on back of canvas stretcher; October... Lake Kalamazoo from Gerb... property, Douglas, Mich, northward. By Carl Hoerman, Saugatuck, Done in October 1929. [view from Gerber Property aka Tara site] tag on back of frame; Carl Hoerman, October on Lake Kalamazoo, 1929, 36x42 photo by Eric Gollannek from 2-page flyer with information about the painting created by Eric Gollanneck Commercial Record newspaper, November 8, 1929

2023.03.01

Easel

Oil

Kalamazoo Lake

A prime example of Hoerman's West Michigan landscapes with the bonus of the Big Pavilion. This painting hung in the Saugatuck Fruit Growers State Bank (and its many later iterations) for more than 90 years. According to an article in the November 8, 1929 Commercial Record newspaper, the work is "painted from the scenic shoreline of hte Gerber (Spencer) estate in Douglas looking across towards Saugatuck, showing, in the foreground the colorful raiment of fall in three and bush, with the distant wood-clad dunes in the hazy blue-green shadows of an afternoon sun with Saugatuck's land mark—the Pavilion—near the center."

Artworks1909 Big Pavilion -1960

Winthers, Sally

Hoerman, Carl 1885-1955

1929

Signature

lower right corner

40-1/2 in

46-1/2 in

2nd floor gallery/conference room

Very Good

The painting appears on page 24 of the 1997 SDHC publication "Painting the Town" as "Big Pavilion from the Douglas Shore," 1949, with the following description on page 33: "In Michigan and Chicago he [Hoerman] is best known for his landscapes and dune scenes, with dramatic foliage outlined against a sky of swirling clouds. In a large painting of Kalamazoo Lake the viewer looks over the south bank of the lake, past fall-tinted foliage to the village of Saugatuck on the north bank where the Big Pavilion looks pink in the brightness of a morning sun. The sandy top of Mount Baldhead gleams in the distance."

01/10/2023

10/09/2024