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The Pond

ca. 1914
20th Century
25 in. x 25 in.

Object Type: Painting

Medium and Support: oil on canvas

Credit Line: Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of Jonathan D. Carlisle

Accession Number: 2011.4

Born off the coast of California in 1879, Mazzanovich was raised in San Francisco. His mother died early and Mazzanovich moved to Chicago. Working with his brother, the artist began his career painting stage sets and illustrating novels. During the early 1900s he began painting landscape and traveled to Moret sur Loing, France. In 1909, Mazzanovich moved to Westport, Connecticut, where he encountered a broad array of artists. Already an established artist by that point, he began exhibiting Impressionist landscapes in Chicago, often working in a square format. This painting depicts a pond in Westport, and based on photographs of the site, Charlie thinks it may be a pond on property owned by the illustrator John Held, Jr. The painting is inscribed to the Westport illustrator George Hand Wright and his wife Ann. In the late teens, Mazzanovich left his wife and son and moved to North Carolina where he continued to paint landscape. His wife filed for divorce in 1928, alleging desertion. He later married a piano teacher and dabbled in pointillism. There is a great sense of light and intense color that makes this work one of Mazzanovich’s prime examples

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