Regatta at Kennebunkport

Details

Clarence Kerr Chatterton (1880-1973)
Regatta at Kennebunkport
signed 'C.K. Chatterton' (lower right)
oil on board
12 x 15¾ in. (30.5 x 40 cm.)
Painted in 1922.

Provenance

Chapellier Galleries, New York.
Christie's, New York, 26 May 1993, lot 146.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Literature

Chapellier Galleries, The Works of C.K. Chatterton, New York, February 1970, n.p., no. 17, illustrated.
J. Hardin and V.A. Leeds, In the American Spirit: Realism and Impressionism from the Lawrence Collection, exhibition catalogue, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1999, pp. 21, 81, 84, no. 6, illustrated.

Exhibited

Jackson, Mississippi, Mississippi Museum of Art, Collector's Choice, November 1979-January 1980 (as Boat Party at Kennebunkport).
St. Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Arts, In the American Spirit: Realism and Impressionism from the Lawrence Collection, March 21-June 13, 1999, no. 6.

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Lot Essay

Clarence Kerr Chatterton spent many of his summers at the artists' colony of Ogunquit, Maine depicting scenes of the leisure class on holiday. Regatta at Kennebunkport and Fair Days are exemplary of the artist's sun-filled, vividly colored paintings of the 1920s.

This painting is recorded as no. 195 in the Chapellier Galleries inventory of works by C.K. Chatterton.

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