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Lot description
Oil on canvas. A large landscape entitled "Cliffs at the Isle of Wight, " signed lower left and with corresponding plaque on linen ribbet. Depicting a storm rolling towards a rocky coastline, with large green waves crashing against the cliffs and a darker ocean beyond, on which you can see the masts of ships blowing and tilting in the choppy water. Sight 28.5" high, 43.5" wide. Framed 39" high, 54" wide. John Edmund Califano was born in Italy and studied painting under Domenico Morelli before emigrating to the United States (Chicago and later San Francisco). He specialized in landscape art, particularly of California and Italy. Provenance: a Midwestern institution. PLEASE NOTE OUR SHIPPING PROCESS. There are three ways to get your purchases from our gallery to you: 1. You pick things up yourself (by appointment); 2. You engage a third-party company to pick things up on your behalf (by appointment); 3. Our affordable in-house shipping: shippable items will be packed and shipped in-house, and larger items will be sent via freight; we will bill you separately for the cost of packing and shipping. Condition: Scattered craquelure. In a custom frame and bearing a tag from the Chicago Conservation center, where it was cleaned, lined, restretched, lightly touched up, and re-varnished in 2002.