AN AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER
AND HIS PAINTINGS
PARIS NEW YORK LONDON VENICE
There is
A wonderful, distinctive charm in the work of
Stokely Webster, quality comprised of affection for the
world and a great understanding of light and value and
in the landscapes especially, a strong sense of place.
The paintings, so seemingly simple at first glance,
are each quiet revelations and a welcome confirmation
that continuity in art is not only possible in a harsh,
discordant time, but immensely gratifying.
What a joy it is to look at the life-work of a man
who knows exactly what he is about and
who so clearly loves life.
DAVID McCULLOUGH
Pulitzer Prize Historian
PORTRAITS
“Iva With Wine Glass”
46 X 32 KW 94
$42,000
Stokely Webster paints fluently and easily, with a formidable technique and style that makes painting seem like child’s play.
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“Tuilleries Pond”
29 X 26 KW 552
$29,500
But he had to work hard so as not to have to work hard any longer.
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“Maria Theresa Acuna”
46 X 32 KW 185
$35,000
He started as a
nine-year-old in
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“Pont Neuf”
24 X 31 KW 352
$30,000
As a student (though he largely has been self-taught) he spent hours upon hours in museums all over the world, copying Old Masters – the equivalent of finger exercises for an instrumentalist.
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“The Louvre”
22 X 28 KW 796
$29,900
That work gave him a technique in which messages from the eye immediately translated into orders to hand and brush
and those orders are instantly obeyed.
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“Pont Du Loup”
20 X 24 KW 959
$25,000
Stokely Webster is a fast painter. He is also a lyric painter.
WOMEN
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“Iva In Straw Hat”
20 X 16 KW 196
$32,000
The essence of lyricism is to catch an emotion on the wing, fixing it for all eternity.
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“Iva In White Leotard”
24 X 20 KW 351
$32,500
Lyricism does not necessarily involve the Big Statement (though in some cases it can).
“Iva In White Frill Blouse”
20 X 16 KW 64
$32,000
Rather it aims at a highly personal statement, expressed intimately, rapidly, accurately, poetically -- A Chopin etude, as opposed to a symphony, an improvisation as opposed to a treatise.
BEACH
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“Sasco Beach”
20 X 24 KW 670
$33,000
Thus he has to paint fast. By itself, to paint fast means nothing.
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“Fire Island Beach”
24 X 30
KW 146
$35,000
But to paint fast with absolute security, with style and personality, is an ability reserved only for superb technicians.
“The Wave”
20 X 24 KW 604
$19,500
Webster was once asked, in a radio interview, about his speed. “What is the quickest and best way to get the effects that I want to get? Quickness is important because when you paint outdoors the way I do, the sun changes, shadows change and unless you can get it down fairly quickly, you get a mishmash of different lighting effects instead of the one you really liked”
NATURAL
“Phoebe Folger”
24 X 20 KW 143
$32,000
His work illustrates Occam’s law: simplicity is best.
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“Nude With Reflections”
24 X 20 KW 575
$34,000
One thing can be said about any Webster painting – it is never overworked, never fussy.
“Daisies In A Crystal Vase”
20 X 16 KW 94
$25,000
Stokely Webster as a child developed an admiration and love for the Impressionists.
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“Road In The Ile De France”
22 X 28 KW 1114
$29,000
Monet is the name that most frequently springs to his lips.
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“Place De Forum Arles
20 X 24 KW 999
$29,000
Never has he wavered from that first great overwhelming influence.
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Farm In The Ile De France”
24 X 30 KW 1124
$28,500
In the great days of Abstract Expressionism and the succeeding post war styles that became so immensely popular (and are now period curiosities) he remained an Impressionist – a realist, if you will.
ARCHITECT
“Yale Quadrangle”
18 X 24 KW 779
$28,000
His paintings continued to be rooted in the figure, in nature, in what he sees.
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“The Guggenheim”
24 X 30 KW 692
$31,000 SOLD
Definitely he was old-fashioned, with such old-fashioned notions as the conviction that an artist has to know how to draw, or that an artist has to convey emotion in his paintings.
“Alphonse Daudet Statue”
16 X 20 KW 884
$29,500
“It seems to me,” he once said of Abstract Expressionism, “that it is too limited to be real art.”
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“Ca Da Mosta”
20 X 24 KW 928
$29,900
Today he is not so old-fashioned. Realism has returned. Everywhere realism has returned.
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“Storm In Venice”
30 X 40 KW 992
$34,000
Once again artists in all fields – even avant-garde artists – look to the past, no longer scorning the realism that was anathema only a short time ago.
“Three Palaces On The Grand Canal”
22 X 28 KW 923
$28,000
But if Webster is an Impressionist, he has filtered Impressionism through his experience and developed a highly individual style.
FLOWERS
“Muguet Et Rhododendron”
20 X 16 KW 956
$21,000
His fast moving brush eliminates all unessentials. Everything is pared down almost to an Idea in the Platonic sense.
Nor has he ever been a flamboyant colorist. Yet light is an animating factor of his work, and in his paintings light always leaps from the canvas.
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“Summer Flowers”
22 X 28 KW 1075
$24,000
He is a realist who never tells a story in his paintings aside from a conviction that a picture should have life and poetry. He just paints.
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“Pink And White Zinnias”
20 X 16 KW 956
$27,000
He uses colors and forms to express things as they are: and since his is an imaginative painter as well as a technician, he has a lyric vision that also expresses himself as well as what he sees.
HAROLD C. SCHONBERG
American Critic, Former Student of Kuniyoshi,
Cultural Correspondent of the New York Times
STOKELY WEBSTER’S WORK IS REPRESENTED IN THE PRIVATE COLLECTIONS OF
PRESIDENT AND MRS. RONALD REAGAN
PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. CLINTON
LAURA BUSH
THE LATE SEYMOUR KNOX JR.
GOV. LOWELL
WEICHERT JR,
HARRY RAND
IRENE CHAPPELIER LITTLE
AUSTIN KIPLINGER
WARREN BUFFETT
JAMES ST. LAWRENCE O’ TOOLE
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STOKELY WEBSTER’S WORK IS REPRESENTED IN THE PERMANENT COLLECTIONS OF
THE
METROPOLITAN
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
THE SMITHSONIAN
INSTITUTE,
THE WHITE
HOUSE,
THE GRACIE
MANSION,
THE CAPITOL
BUILDING,
THE SENATE
OFFICE BUILDING,
THE ART
INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO,
THE PHILLIPS
COLLECTION,
THE DENVER
MUSEUM OF ART,
THE HIGH
MUSEUM,
THE
INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART,
THE MUSEUM OF
FINE ART,
THE
ALBRIGHT-KNOX GALLERY OF ART,
THE FREY MUSEUM
OF ART,
THE NEWARK
MUSEUM, NEWARK, NEW
THE MUSEUM OF
THE CITY OF
THE MUSEUM OF
ART,
THE ELVEHJEM
MUSEUM, MADISON
THE CORNELL
FINE ARTS MUSEUM,
THE DAYTONA
MUSEUM OF ARTS,
THE ILLINOIS
STATE MUSEUM,
NEW BRITIAN
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, NEW BRITIAN,
HICKORY MUSEM,
HOOD MUSEUMM
VIRGINIA MUSEUM
FINE ARTS,
THE MUSEUM,
STONY
THE MEMORIAL
MUSEUM,
THE MORSE
MUSEUM,
THE FINE ARTS
MUSEUM,
THE FINE ARTS
MUSEUM,
THE HECKSHER
MUSEUM,
THE PARRISH MUSEUM, SOUTHAMPTON, NEW YORK
THE POLK
MUSEUM,
SOUTHERN
VERMONT ART CENTER,
NORTHWESTERN
UNIVERSITY,
THE MONTCLAIR
MUSEUM, MONTCLAIR, NEW
THE COLLECTION
OF STETSON UNIVERSITY,
THE CORPORATE BOARD ROOM COLLECTION AT&T
THE NATIONAL
ACADEMY OF DESIGN, NEW YORK,
WASHINGTON
COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS,
READING MUSEUM,
SAN DIEGO
MUSEUM OF ART,
HOOD MUSEUM,
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, HANOVER,
ALBRECHT KEMPER
MUSEUM, ST. JOSEPH,
SOUTHERN
VERMONT CENTER FOR THE ARTS,
DIXON GALLERY AND GARDENS, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
NASSAU COUNTY
MUSEUM OF ART,
FENIMORE MUSEUM
OF ART,
PHILBROOK
MUSEUM,
COLUMBIA ART
MUSEUM,
LYMAN ALLYN
MUSEUM,
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