155 - Arthur Covey, "Mountain Farm - North Carolina (1946)," Value: $250

155

Title:  "Mountain Farm - North Carolina" (1946)

Artist:    Arthur Sinclair Covey

Donor: Nancy Sorak

Media:  Lithograph

Dimensions:  20.5" x 17"

Value: $250

“Was it the beauty of Nature to which he lived so closely through his childhood years, that gave him the love of beauty that was to steer his course for the sixty coming years of his chosen profession,” asked Lois Lenski, in the 1960 catalogue celebrating the Southwestern College Covey collection. “No one can say,” Lenski wrote. “But a driving urge was born in that boy at an early age, an urge to express beauty and to give it to others, an urge that never left him as long as he lived.”

Arthur Sinclair Covey (American, 1877 - 1960) was a mural painter, etcher, and lithographer. He was raised in El Dorado and studied at Southwestern College, Winfield; Art Institute of Chicago with John H. Vanderpoel, 1899-1903; Paris; Royal Academy of Art; Munich with Karl Marr, 1904; London, assistant to Frank Brangwyn, 1905-08. Covey's first professional work was drawing American subjects for the Indianapolis newspaper, News, and the Cleveland Press. He was later Instructor for the London School of Art. In 1932, he became director of the Department of Mural Decoration under the National Academy of Design. He was awarded the Emily Lowe Memorial Award, National Academy of Design and exhibited in the Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915.

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