Fine Jewelry, Art and Antiques
Sun, Jun 22, 2025 12:00PM EDT
Lot 90
Omer Lassonde (1903-1980) The Old Cypress and Sea
Estimate: $600 - $800
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Oil on canvas, signed lower left, Lassonde, with title written on the stretcher. 19" x 15 5/8", framed to 23" x 19 3/8".
Lassonde excelled as a student painter in his native New Hampshire and was brought to Monehagn Island by Maud Briggs Knowlton in 1925. That fall, Lassonde was accepted to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he was also a prizewinning student.
One of Lassonde's early commissions, NH governor John Winant, suggested that he travel to the South Pacific to paint, as Gaugin did. Lassonde took the advice, and spent most of 1930 painting in West Somoa.
During the Depression, Lassonde worked as an administrator for the WPA Federal Arts Program and founded the New Hampshire Art Association to promote NH artists. He married Louisa Tompkins in 1937 and served painting scenery for Army films during the war. After the war, Lassonde continued to paint and exhibit widely, becoming an outspoken advocate for modernism.
Lassonde and his wife spent time in California and Florida in their later years.
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