36. Ernest Fiene
(1894-1965)
Barns

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Fiene: Barns

Barns

Lithograph, 1926, 219 x 347 mm., Coven (on-line catalog) 18. Fine impression on a textured, white japan paper (the paper has some tiny intrinsic flaws) with large, uneven margins, titled, signed and dated in pencil and numbered from the edition of 30; a pale, narrow border of discoloration from the old mat opening. Fiene was born in Elberfeld, Germany, a land he fled in 1912 to avoid having to serve in the German army in the coming World War. In New York he studied at the National Academy of Design and the Beaux Arts Institute and later at the Art Students League. He divided his time between the city and Woodstock (probably the location of this image) with occasional trips to France. Fiene got early recognition and had exhibitions in a number of New York galleries. He worked in watercolor and oil as well as doing prints and drawings and his works entered many museums. He died in Paris on one of his trips there. This lithograph is his first work in that medium.