Franck Morse Rummel - Fishing harbor at the Arctic Circle (Arctic landscape) - Sold

More than 100 years old colorful painting of a Norwegian harbor on panel by the English painter Franck Morse-Rummel (Berlin 1884-1960). He was the son of pianist F. Rummel, and grandson of Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph and painter. Franck Morse-Rummel was taught by Lovis Corinth during his Berlin years, and left for Paris to study at the Académie Julian. Traveled around Europe and spent a long time in Norway and Lapland, where he made numerous paintings of fjords, landscapes and harbors (including the work on offer). Was recently represented with a painting in the exhibition “Landscapes and Legends of Norway. William Singer and his contemporaries” at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts (May-Sept 2023). Achieves good results at auctions. The panel is signed on the back (“F Morse-Rummel”) and dated (“1921”) and also bears an old label from “picture framemaker” Bourlet, 17 Nassau St, with number 55128). The panel is framed in a simple gold-colored painted wooden frame. Dimensions 50x54 cm.