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Charles Warren Eaton American, 1857-1937 Poplars, Bruges (Belgium) Signed Chas. Warren Eaton (ll) Oil on canvas 18 x 16 inches Provenance: Private collection, Woodbridge, CT Exhibited: New York, Spanierman Gallery, LLC, Charles Warren Eaton (1857-1937): An American Tonalist Rediscovered, Nov. 4-Dec. 31, 2004 (cat. no. 33, p. 70 color illus.) Literature: Charles Teaze Clark. Charles Warren Eaton (1857-1937): An American Tonalist Rediscovered. Exh. cat. New York: Spanierman Gallery, LLC, cat. no. 33, p. 70 color illus. Eaton first visited Bruges, Belgium, in 1892 and made regular summer visits there from 1900 until about 1910, usually residing in the Hotel Panier d'Or in the old town. During his sojourns, he made sketches and took photographs of local scenery that he used as reference sources for the paintings he would complete in his studio during the winter. Of this image, Eaton scholar Charles Teaze Clark states: "few if any of Charles Warren Eaton's paintings equal in compositional formality and complexity the small canvas Poplars, Bruges. While a number of the artist's Belgian poplar paintings focus on a length of canal leading explicitly into the distance, in this version the rhythmic patterns and sinuous curves of the trees are the principal themes. The two-dimensional patterns relate the work to the Art Nouveau movement and its reliance on organic, flowing, curvilinear lines. Eaton obscured distant details, instead encouraging the eye to follow the playful, whiplashes of the parallel rows of poplars." C The Spanierman Gallery, LLC