01 Work, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #145

Jonas Lie

Sailboats

Oil on panel

9 3/4 × 12 3/4 in, 24.8 × 32.4 cm

Private collection

Jonas Lie (April 29, 1880 - January 18, 1940), was born in Norway, and lived there until the death of his father at the age of twelve. He was sent to live with his uncle in Paris, a distinguished poet and novelist with the same name, but reunited with his mother, an American woman from Hartford, Connecticut, and sisters in New York the following year. He later enrolled at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League.

While seascapes and scenes of water stand out as a favorite theme, biographers and critics of Lie make mention of his early training, painting urban motifs. With a light infused palette dominated by cool tones, he utilized broad avenues of pigment and decisive brushwork to create an incomplex yet striking composition. “The very simplicity of his treatment gives to his canvases a power and a charm which a different technique could not impart” .

His familiarity with infrastructure became evident once again as an observer and visual recorder of the building of the Panama Canal in 1913; he was impressively able to convey a genuine sense of the vastness and the splendor of the undertaking there.

Between 1905 and 1938 Lie had fifty-seven one-man shows, each including between twelve to forty-five paintings. He participated in annual and biennial exhibitions at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, as well as a number of world fairs. In 1934 Lie was the first foreign-born person to be elected president of the National Academy. He resigned in 1939, and passed away the next year. More on Jonas Lie

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