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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
Constantinople From the Sea at Night
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Biography from Point Pleasant Galleries:
| C. Calusd (1860-1936)
An American painter specializing in Marine night paintings, he lived in Constantinople and had a studio at 225 5th Ave., New York City.
Studied:
Ecole des Beaux Arts Imperial in Constantinople; and pupil of the Shah's Court Painter, Valeri.
Prizes:
First prize and diploma of honor at the International Exhibit of Art in Bulgaria; Patronage of the Czar of Bulgaria; Queen Carmen Sylvia bought several of his paintings in Bucharest; President Woodrow Wilson hung his painting - "Statue of Liberty" of New York Harbor at Night - in the Whitehouse, Washington, D.C. in 1918.
Exhibited:
Extensively in Turkey, Bulgaria, Persia, etc.; at the Plaza Hotel, NYC, under the patronage of H.H. Topakyan, H.I.M. (His Imperial Majesty), the Shah's own Consul General , Jan. 6 - 19, 1913, "C. Calusd, Marine Painter"; Exhibition of Marine Painting by C. Calusd, 546 Fifth Ave (45th St.), Feb 12 - March 3, 1915, under the patronage of Col. the Hon. Mesrup Nevton, Khan.
The American painter from Constantinople has won fame with his paintings of the Sea of Marmora and of the Bosporus, and now with his Statue of Liberty hanging in the Whitehouse. At his latest exhibition are recent seascapes from New England at Newport, New Bedford, Bar Harbor, Gloucester, etc. The sea is his delight, the quietude when only the moon looks on, the sea in repose, with raiment's of blue and jet and gold. He also paints fisherman, the sea of violence and billowing waves; a poet of the sea. "Heaven's Light" glows with exquisite blue sky and moonlit water He recently has taken interest in great American birds.
C. Calusd Exhibition at his Studio at 225 Fifth Ave. The painting "Our Pride" shows warships in the foggy night standing sentinel over the sleeping city, and "Castles of Wealth" displays the twinkling towers of Manhattan seen from the bay.
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