Harrison Cady Rockport Ma Landscape Oil Painting Mid Century Modern

FREE SHIPPING ANYWHERE IN THE CONTINENTAL US! This is a street scene oil painting of the coastal town Rockport, MA, by well listed artist Harrison Cady, renowned American author and illustrator of Peter Rabbit. Signed lower right. Oil on canvas. Mid 20th century. The painting itself measures 24″ x 30″ and is displayed in a period gilt wood frame with a white liner measuring 31 1/2″ 37 1/2″.
Very good condition! Pure Americana. Great investment piece.

Harrison Cady (American, 1877-1970). Cady’s Peter Rabbit comic strip, which was based on Thornton Burgess’ Peter Cottontail stories (as opposed to Beatrix Potter’s version) was launched by the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate on August 15, 1920. He continued to write and draw the strip for almost three decades. Cady had a long association with Burgess, illustrating the writer’s books, including Happy Jack, and his daily newspaper column, Bedtime Stories. Their partnership spanned five decades, beginning with Baby Possum Has a Scare (c. 1912), The Adventures of Reddy Fox (1913), and Buster Bear Invites Old Mr. Toad to Dine (c. 1914). The series continued into the 1950s with At Paddy the Beaver’s Pond (1950), followed by the reprint The Animal World of Thornton Burgess (1962). Cady was very prolific, illustrating over 70 years for such publications as St. Nicholas Magazine, Boys’ Life,[4] The Saturday Evening Post, Ladies’ Home Journal, Good Housekeeping and Country Gentleman. He illustrated the Queen Silver-Bell series by Frances Hodgson Burnett. In his later years, he retired to Rockport, MA, where he continued his work within the community of acclaimed artists that included Anthony Thieme, Aldro Hibbard, Emile Gruppe, Frederick Mulhaupt.

Provenance: The painting was consigned to an auction house sometime in the early 21st century by David Blowers who was a well known Massachusetts dealer and collector of fine art who most likely acquired it directly from Cady. It was purchased by another Massachusetts gentleman at that auction, who is also a collector of fine art and from whom I learned the provenance and was lucky enough to acquire this painting.

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