CARL HALL | Morning Wreath

John & Lynne Bolen Fine Arts, Huntington Beach, California
Tomlin Acheson Fine Arts, Santa Monica, California 

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Contemporary American Painting, November 1948-January 1949
New York, American Academy of Arts & Letters, May 1949
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Juliana Force and American Art: A Memorial Exhibition, September-October 1949

"Oregon Artist Carl Hall Portrays the Great Northwest with 'Magical Realism,'" Life, March 8, 1948, p. 85, illustrated

The canvas is unlined. There is frame abrasion at edges and scattered fine surface cracking. Under UV: the work retains an opaque varnish. There appear to be a few thin lines of inpainting in the lower right quadrant.
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"Morning Wreath shows the heavy white mists that envelope the spectacular countryside of northwest Oregon where Carl Hall painted this scene. Here, he says, he tried to capture the feeling of slowly moving mist which drifts in 'ominous shapes, leaving masses of fir trees like dark forbidding ships at anchor'" ("Oregon Artist Carl Hall Portrays the Great Northwest with 'Magical Realism,'" Life, March 8, 1948, p. 85).