George Ault

Provincetown House, 1921

George Copeland Ault, born in Cleveland, OH in 1891, died in Woodstock, NY in 1948, was a Precisionist in good relationship with the Surrealism. The works of his last years are different: these oils populated by the farms of Woodstock have some mystic touch, as he was expressing a universe of himself, isolated from a world that was in crisis.

Maybe that was his universe from the beginning; it became pregnant in his last years. Or we can say we understand better his earlier works now that we know the last ones. Anyway, his marvelous Bright Light at Russell's Corner created in 1946 made us see better his isolated world, his roofs far from the sky-scrapers of the city, his empty windows, his empty Sullivan Street from 1924, his red and black Brooklyn Heights from 1925, devoid of life despite the industrious environment. De Chirico would have appreciated.

Sullivan Street, Abstraction, 1924

From Brooklyn Heights, 1925

View from Brooklyn, 1927

Greenwich Village Rooftops, 1931

Roofs, 1931

Studio Interior, 1938

Sculpture on a Roof, 1945

Bright Light at Russell's Corner, 1946

(Avangarda 20)