RARE "Muralist" Douglas Volk Signed Check Dated 1923 For Sale

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RARE "Muralist" Douglas Volk Signed Check Dated 1923:
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Stephen Arnold Douglas Volk(February 23, 1856 – February 7, 1935)was an American portrait and figure painter, muralist,and educator. He taught at theCooper Union, theArt Students Leagueof New York, and was one of the founders of theMinneapolis School of FineArts. He and his wife Marion established a summer artist colony in westernMaine. He was born inPittsfield, Massachusetts,to Emily ClarissaKing (Barlow) Volk and the sculptorLeonard Wells Volk. He was named forhis mother's maternal cousin,Stephen A. Douglas, theDemocraticPartypresidential nominee in 1860, who losttoRepublicanpresidential nomineeAbraham Lincoln. CongressmanLincoln posed for a bust by Leonard Volk in early 1860, and the sculptor madeplaster casts of his face and hands. Four-year-old Douglas entertained thefuture president.Volk spent his childhood in Chicago, but his family moved toEurope when he was fourteen. He began studying art in Rome, and attendedtheÉcole des Beaux-ArtsinParis(1873 to 1879), where hewas a pupil ofJean-Léon Gérôme. At age nineteen, he exhibited attheParis Salonof 1875.He returned to the United States, and was hired as aninstructor at theCooper Unionin New York City, where he taught from1879 to 1884 and from 1906 to 1912.He helped to found theMinneapolis School of FineArtsin 1886, and served as its director until 1893. He taught attheArt Students League of New York(1893 to 1898), theNationalAcademy of Design(1910 to 1917), and intermittently at theSocietyfor Ethical Culture.He was also a working artist, noted for his figure andportrait paintings. He exhibited three works at the 1893World's ColumbianExpositionin Chicago, where the group won a medal, his first major award.One of the three, a "story picture" titledThe Puritan Maiden,featured a young woman huddled against a tree in a bleak winter landscape. Thefootprints in the snow of her (unseen) lover lead away into the distance –"The snows must melt, the trees bud and roses bloom, ere he will comeagain." It had been painted twelve years earlier, but becameenormously popular at the Exposition and later through engraved copies. Familymembers posed as models for a number of his most famous paintings.PuritanMother and Child(1897), featured his wife in historical costumeembracing their youngest son, and was part of the group that won a gold medalat the 1915Panama-Pacific Expositionin San Francisco. It is now inthe collection of theCarnegie Museum of Artin Pittsburgh.TheYoung Pioneer(1899), a full-length portrait of his son Gerome inrustic costume holding a canoe paddle, won first prize at the 1899 ColonialExhibition in Boston. It was bought for theMetropolitan Museum ofArtin 1906,but later deaccessioned.The Boy with the Arrow(1903),which featured his son seated on a rock with Kezar Lake in the distance, wonthe 1903 Carnegie Prize from the Society of American Artists, a silver medal atthe 1904Louisiana Purchase Expositionin St. Louis, and the 1907gold medal at the Carolina Art Association. It is now in the collection oftheSmithsonian American Art Museum.

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