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The Guardian

Artist:Charles Bosseron Chambers
Date:1920s
Medium:Oil on Stretched Canvas
Dimensions:Sight Size 24" x 30" Framed 31 1/2" x 37 1/2"
Condition:Mint
Original Use:Presumably Published Calendar Art
Price: Sold
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Full View of Artwork

Grapefruit Moon Gallery is proud to offer several scarce original paintings from the American illustrator Charles Bosseron Chambers, including this large, dazzling, and spiritually evocative work titled “Guardian Angel and Boy.”

Framed view in carved gold wood frame
Framed view in carved gold wood frame

Compositionally, this is a complex, stark, and questioning work. Thematically, the young boy–holding a model airplane–represents the machine age and ongoing industrialization. The angel is shown in a soft focused diffused and ethereal otherwordly world, while the boy is almost photo-realist in appearance. Their interaction calls into question the relationship between modernity and spirituality.

The artist's signature
The artist’s signature
Above: The artist at work in his studio c. 1920

Oil is titled on verso and framed in a wonderful carved gold gesso frame. We at the gallery are particularily taken with this artist and this work specifically.

The angel
The angel
Detail of boy
Detail of boy
Verso label and back stretchers
Verso label and back stretchers
Corner frame detail
Corner frame detail

A biography of Charles Bosseron Chambers

C. Bosseron Chambers was known for figurative works in an illustrative manner, with many of them being either portraits or works with religious themes.

An illustrator and teacher as well as painter, Chambers was born in St. Louis, Missouri on May 1882. His father, a young Irish captain in the British Army, was a convert to the Catholic Church, and his mother was the daughter of a French family long established in St. Louis.

Charles, the youngest of several children, was sent to the Preparatory and Grammar Schools connected with St. Louis University in his earliest years, and his education in his chosen art was begun under Louis Schultz of the Berlin Royal Academy, with whom he spent six years. His next master was Aleis Hrdliczka of the Royal Academy of Vienna, and he later studied with Johannes Schumacher of Dresden for six years.

After matriculating at St. Louis University, Chambers began his professional career at Palm Beach, Florida, a place chosen because of his mother’s failing health.

From this period in his artistic productions date the fantastic figure compositions exhibited at the St. Louis Exposition, together with portraits of Colonel Mitchell for the Missouri Historical Society; Joseph Jefferson, the great American actor; young Master Haven; Henry Phipps; Henry M. Flagler; Mrs. Voorhis and others.

In 1916 he moved to New York City, and established himself in the Carnegie Studios, Carnegie Hall, where he occupied a splendid atelier. Here he produced the “Light of the World,” the most popular American religious painting of the early Twentieth Century.

He was a member of the Society of Illustrators, established in 1901 in New York City, and the Salmagundi Club, an early important art club in New York City. He illustrated Sir Walter Scott’s, “Quentin Durward, “in the Scribner Classics for Young People.

His work was exhibited at the well-known John Levy Galleries in New York City in the 1930s, and his work is now in several public collections in St. Louis and Chicago, including Chicago’s St. Ignatius’s Church, Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis, and the Osceola Club in St. Augustine, Florida.

Above: “The Light Of the World” Bosseron Chambers’ most iconic work

The Guardian

Artist: Charles Bosseron Chambers
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, angel, charles bosseron chambers, child, christian, illustration, machine age, original calendar art, religious, spiritual
Added to Gallery: May 13, 2007

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

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