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Robert Kulicke ”Seascape” Oil on Gessoed Masonite - Robert Moore Kulicke (American, 1924-2007). Oil on gessoed masonite painting titled ”Seascape, ” 1984. Depicting a tranquil coastal beach scene with rolling ocean waves and a sandy shore. Pencil signed and dated along the lower center. With a Davis & Langdale Company, Inc., label adhered along the verso bearing artist attribution, title, date, and medium. Provenance: Davis & Langdale Company Inc.; John C. Stoller Co., July 1989; Private Minnesota Collection. Robert Kulicke was a painter, frame maker, and teacher whose most enduring contribution to the visual arts was his reinvention of picture frame design; he was also recognized as a painter of small, delicate still lifes. Both disciplines converge in ”Seascape, ” which is set within a light-colored wood frame of Kulicke's own design; its pale, weathered tone is in direct dialogue with the coastal subject it presents. The painting is inset flush into the frame rather than merely bordered by it, a construction method reflecting Kulicke's conviction that the frame should be conceived alongside the work itself. As Kulicke stated, ”the frame is the ultimate presentation, the reward for painting the picture.” In this piece, frame and painting are inseparable, realized as a single unified object. Sight; height: 6 in x width: 9 3/4 in. Framed; height: 9 1/4 in x width: 13 in x depth: 3/4 in. Condition: There are no breaks, cracks, or major losses. No evidence of repair under UV light inspection. Light wear along the perimeter resulting in some minute to small losses to the pigment. Light wear to the frame. Work not inspected out of frame.