RARE \"Legendary Portrait Artist\" Douglas Volk Hand Signed Check Dated 1923 For Sale

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RARE \"Legendary Portrait Artist\" Douglas Volk Hand Signed Check Dated 1923:
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Up for sale "Muralist" Douglas Volk Hand Signed Check Dated 1928. 

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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 the Cooper Union, the Art Students League

of New York, and was one of the founders of the Minneapolis School of Fine

Arts. He and his wife Marion established a summer artist colony in western

Maine. He was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to Emily Clarissa

King (Barlow) Volk and the sculptor Leonard Wells Volk. He was named for

his mother's maternal cousin, Stephen A. Douglas, nominee in 1860, who lost

to Republican presidential nominee Abraham Lincoln. Congressman

Lincoln posed for a bust by Leonard Volk in early 1860, and the sculptor made

plaster casts of his face and hands. Four-year-old Douglas entertained the

future president. Volk spent his childhood in Chicago, but his family moved to

Europe when he was fourteen. He began studying art in Rome, and attended

the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1873 to 1879), where he

was a pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme. At age nineteen, he exhibited at

the Paris Salon of 1875. He returned to the United States, and was hired as an

instructor at the Cooper Union in New York City, where he taught from

1879 to 1884 and from 1906 to 1912. He helped to found the Minneapolis School of Fine

Arts in 1886, and served as its director until 1893. He taught at

the Art Students League of New York (1893 to 1898), the National

Academy of Design (1910 to 1917), and intermittently at the Society

for Ethical Culture. He was also a working artist, noted for his figure and

portrait paintings. He exhibited three works at the 1893 World's Columbian

Exposition in Chicago, where the group won a medal, his first major award.

One of the three, a "story picture" titled The Puritan Maiden,

featured a young woman huddled against a tree in a bleak winter landscape. The

footprints 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 come

again." It had been painted twelve years earlier, but became

enormously popular at the Exposition and later through engraved copies. Family

members posed as models for a number of his most famous paintings. Puritan

Mother and Child (1897), featured his wife in historical costume

embracing their youngest son, and was part of the group that won a gold medal

at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. It is now in

the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. The

Young Pioneer (1899), a full-length portrait of his son Gerome in

rustic costume holding a canoe paddle, won first prize at the 1899 Colonial

Exhibition in Boston. It was bought for the Metropolitan Museum of

Art in 1906, but later deaccessioned. The Boy with the Arrow (1903),

which featured his son seated on a rock with Kezar Lake in the distance, won

the 1903 Carnegie Prize from the Society of American Artists, a silver medal at

the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, and the 1907

gold medal at the Carolina Art Association. It is now in the collection of

the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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