Kanute Edwin Felix (1852-1935) Swedish/American, Seascape Oil on Canvas. Depicts a craggy mountain in the distance with a turbulent sea on the left tossing a sailboat and steamship about, while a lone red-shirted figure stands near a home with docks and trees surrounding it on the beach on the right. Signed bottom right. 

Condition: Crackling paint. 

Overall: 18 1/2 X 34 1/2 in. 

Sight: 15 1/2 X 31 1/2 in. 

Depth: 1 3/4 in. 

#3750 . 

Kanute Edwin Felix was born in Sweden in 1852. As a youth he apprenticed to an etcher, but in the 1880s he was first exposed to the work of Swedish impressionists, particularly Anders Zorn. He immigrated to the United States in 1892, where he settled in New Jersey and explored the work of artists along the Jersey shore. He began to specialize in maritime paintings, influenced by realism but heavily involved with the American impressionists, and selling well enough to buy an estate in Asbury Park where he married and had several children. In the mid 1910s a doctor recommended that he winter in Florida for health reasons, and he began to divide his time between there and New Jersey, eventually purchasing a large tract of land near Miami in 1924. In his later years he was the Founder & President of the Florida Conservatory of Art and Music in Miami, and his maritime paintings were found in many galleries throughout Florida and New England. He died on May 25th, 1935, at his home in Florida.

Crackling paint.