Mr Lynn Radcliffe Plein Air Painting Long Island Malverne Group New York Artist

Unframed 16 x 20 oil on canvas-board by Mr. Born 1920 depicting an American Impressionist landscape with houses along the water.

Painted in 1971, but in a style that looks more like 1930's. Listed in 1900-50 section per the style.

As of this writing, the artist is still alive at around 100 years old. Provenance: the artist and family, aka Radcliffe family trust in Lloyd Harbor, Long Island, New York.

Unrestored, original condition plein air painting has brushwork skips that aren't losses, and the painting was never varnished. I was able to get some select pieces like this that came from the family, -- see my other listings.

According to the trust / estate handler, ca. 1940 Lynn Radcliffe studied under Edgar Payne and they were good friends until Payne's early passing.

1950, Radcliffe was a Member and exhibitor with the Malverne Artists, now called TriCounty Artists of Long Island. I believe he also studied under Ralph Fanning at some point. Starting around the mid-50's and after, Radcliffe painted in the Rocky Mountains and in the 60's he painted in New Mexico.

One of the paintings he was most proud of was his Mt. Burgess on Emerald Lake in the Rockies (I was shown a black and white picture of it). Radcliffe did some beautiful paintings of NY and New England scenery. A smaller portion of his oeuvre (body of work) consisted of abstract paintings inspired by outer space, as Radcliffe was the designer of the rocket engines for the Apollo 11 moon landing mission. Lynn Radcliffe would go down in world history as "Engine Tester", although I think of him as "Rocket Man". He was in charge of the White Sands rocket propulsion test facility in New Mexico, where he figured out how to get Neil Armstrong to and from the moon in the Apollo 11 mission. Basically, Radcliffe designed, developed and tested the lunar module's rocket engines, but this was tricky because the module was incapable of flight in Earth's atmosphere. He's an expert oil painter, author of books on classical piano technique / method (you can see him playing at 96 on youtube), author of books / expert on boating and boats, etc. He's what we'd call a true Renaissance Man. Living on Long Island and being an artist during the time of the Abstract Expressionists must have inspired him to try his hand at abstraction too because I saw about a dozen nice abstracts by him and I was able to acquire two. The leaders of the school, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, also lived on Long Island, and I know that Radcliffe particularly liked Franz Kline paintings. From the net: The ascent rocket that Radcliffe's team tested over and over in New Mexico provided the only means of return for the two astronauts on the moon surface. Explosive bolts had to break the connection between the ascent and descent stages, then a sort of guillotine would slice the wires and cables before the engine propelled the ascent stage into lunar orbit. Also: "Lynn Radcliffe, who managed the facility at White Sands that was specially constructed to test and develop the LEM's rocket engines, describes the technology required to land the lunar modules: "This was an unbelievable maneuver when you stop and think about it. You're sitting on a column of thrust, just hovering there, like a, a helicopter, and then as you let it go, the throttle, a little bit, you lower it just a few feet per second until you make contact. All of this is an amazing set of requirements to put on anyone trying to design a rocket.

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Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
Region of Origin: US
Artist: Lynn E.
Radcliffe
Production Technique: Oil Painting
Style: Impressionism
Material: Oil, Canvas, Canvasboard
Time Period Produced: 1970-1979
Type: Painting
Features: Signed, One of a Kind (OOAK)
Subject: Landscape
Year of Production: 1971
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Painting Surface: cavasboard
Unit of Sale: Single-Piece Work
Date of Creation: 1900-1949
Width (Inches): 20
Color: Multi-Color
Height (Inches): 16
UPC: NA