Mathew Daly, Famous Rookwood Pottery Artist And Painter. A Gentleman Of Cincinnati Ohio, 1933.

Mathew Daly, Famous Rookwood Pottery Artist and Painter. A Gentleman of Cincinnati Ohio, 1933. Signed Lower Left: Matt Daly, 1933. On board and in good condition. The aging of the finish coating could be removed, brightening the whites and softer tones of the face and eyes. Measures: 12 by 10 by .1875 inches.

Reference: 206-269-K
Estimate: $50-$100

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Matthew A. Daly, (1860 – 1937); A landscape, portrait and still life painter. Andrew Matthew Daly was born in Cincinnati on 13 January 1860, that same year the city of Cincinnati where he was born and later died, inaugurated the Sketch Club, whose members included James Beard, Henry Mosler, and Alexander Wyant. The Civil War discouraged cultural activity and it seemed that an inordinate number of artists were leaving Cincinnati. At the McMicken School of Design, Daly studied under Thomas S. Noble and Vincent Nowottny. An excellent draftsman, he turned increasingly to portraits and figure subjects. Later he studied with Frank Duveneck whom he considered his inspiration. Duveneck brought a certain sophistication to Cincinnati after he returned home from Munich in late 1873. Yet his style was too progressive, so he did not remain long, unlike Daly, who worked as an artist for the famous Rookwood Pottery Company from 1883 to 1903.

Upon leaving Rookwood, he became a director and chief designer for the United States Playing Card Company, where he remained involved for nearly thirty years. In addition, he participated in local art activities. In 1890 Daly helped found the Cincinnati Art Club. He executed numerous portraits and exhibited his landscapes and still-life regularly in local shows. One of the latter, dated 1889, shows Duveneck's influence on the brushwork, a factor of his technique that would become increasingly impressionistic over the following years.

Daly and his wife, who also painted, liked to spend their vacations in the Canadian Rockies or in New England, where Daly painted some of his best impressionistic landscapes. His procedure was to paint plein-air studies to serve as models (esquisses) for larger works done in his home-studio. In later works Daly's fine brushwork and brighter palette reflect certain tendencies toward impressionism, a side of his art frequently eclipsed by his achievement as a portraitist and his career as a pottery artist.

Acquaintances censured him for making more than one version of a scene. Yet Daly became a leader of the Cincinnati Art Club. At the age of seventy-seven on 23 November 1937 he died at his easel in his hometown.

Sources:
Clark, Edna, Ohio Art, and Artists. Richmond, VA: Garrett and Massie, 1932, pp. 162, 452; Ripley, L. A., "When the Mantle Fell on New Dean of Artists," Cincinnati Times-Star, 4 December 1933; Freeman, Norine W. "Modern Cincinnati Artists. Daly's Brush Enamored of Mountains, Nature's Rugged Majesty," Cincinnati Post, 19 January 1935; Vitz, Robert C., The Queen, and the Arts: Cultural Life in Nineteenth-century Cincinnati. Kent, OH: Kent state University Press, 1989, pp. 196, 201, 205, 237.

Submitted by Richard H. Love and Michael Preston Worley, Ph.D.

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Artist: Matthew A Daly
Title: "Hod Carriers at Lunch"
Sales Price: $5,520 (*Buyer fees included)
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,400
Difference: 294% overestimate
Price/Sq. Inch: $35.56
Size: 11.50" x 13.50"
Year Created: 1920
Signature: Signed and Dated
Medium/Ground: Oil / Board
Auction Date(s): 07/24/2021 (all lots)
Auction: Two-Day Summer Auction - July 24 & 25 - Day 1
By: Case Auctions
Lot: 182

Artist: Matthew A Daly
Title: The Front Range- Este Park, Colorado
Sales Price: $960 (*Buyer fees included)
Estimate: $600 - $650
Difference: 47% overestimate
Price/Sq. Inch: $1.38
Size: 23.50" x 29.50"
Year Created: not given
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium/Ground: Oil / Board
Auction Date(s): 01/29/2022 (all lots)
Auction: Winter Fine Art & Antique Auction: Day 1
By: Case Auctions
Lot: 188

Artist: Matthew A Daly
Title: Red Eagle Mountain, Glacier National Park
Sales Price: $1,375 (*Buyer fees included)
Estimate: $500 - $700
Difference: 96% overestimate
Price/Sq. Inch: $10.07
Size: 10.50" x 13"
Year Created: 1927
Signature: Signed and Dated
Medium/Ground: Oil / Board
Auction Date(s): 01/16/2022 (all lots)
Auction: DECORATIVE ARTS AUCTION
By: Treadway
Lot: 137

Artist: Matthew A Daly
Title: Canadian Landscape Paintings (2)
Sales Price: $1,664 (*Buyer fees included)
Estimate: $500 - $600
Difference: 177% overestimate
Size:
Year Created: not given
Signature:
Medium/Ground: Oil / Board
Auction Date(s): 07/24/2021 (all lots)
Auction: Two-Day Summer Auction - July 24 & 25 - Day 1
By: Case Auctions
Lot: 625

Notes: Good condition, unframed, Oil on board canvas, minor abrasions, no in-painting under UV

$50 - $100

10" x 0.1875" x 12"

Fine Art, Paintings

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