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Alden P. RIPLEY & Inez E. LASSELL

Husband: Alden P. RIPLEY

   Born: 1859 in Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire
Married: 29 Apr 1896 in Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire
   Died:
 Father: William N. RIPLEY
 Mother: Susan Elizabeth WORCESTER
Spouses: Maria J. KNOWLTON

   Wife: Inez E. LASSELL

   Born: 1874 in Wakefield, Middlesex, Massachusetts
   Died:
 Father: Charles A. LASSELL
 Mother: Mary A.
Spouses:

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01  (M): Alden Lassell RIPLEY, Artist
   Born: 31 Dec 1896 in Wakefield, Massachusetts
   Died: 29 Aug 1969 in Lincoln, Massachusetts
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(01) Alden Lassell RIPLEY, Artist:

Notes:
Amongst other images created by Alden Ripley is the creator of the ninth duck hunting stamp US $1, 1942. An image of this stamp in found on the CD version of this family tree.

ALDEN LASSELL RIPLEY
(1896 - 1969)

Ripley was born in Wakefield, MA, on December 31, 1896. A childhood interest in music gave way to painting while he was in high school. He studied in Boston, MA, at the Fenway School of Illustration until the start of American involvement in the First World War, at which point he joined the army; he served both as an infantryman and in a military band. He saw action in some of the worst battles of the war, including the Marne and the Argonne. After his discharge in 1919 he studied with Frank Benson and Philip Hale at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He began his career as a landscape painter, traveling with his wife in France, the Netherlands, and North Africa on fellowship money from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1924.

After his return to the United States Ripley traveled along the eastern coast and attempted to establish himself as a landscape painter. During the Depression he found that landscapes and portraiture were not in great demand. Observing that sporting art was not suffering from the reduced market for art, he became a painter of game birds and shooting scenes; an avid gunner after ruffed grouse and other upland game, he knew his subject well and was able to paint in a style that appealed both to fellow sportsmen and to connoisseurs of the fine arts. He also continued to paint portraits on commission as well as some historical works, such as a set of fourteen paintings depicting the life of Paul Revere. He taught at the Harvard School of Architecture in Cambridge, MA, in 1929. He illustrated a number of books for the Derrydale Press, Eugene V. Connett's sporting imprint, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. In 1942 his AMERICAN WIDGEON, a drypoint of two ducks in the water and a third landing, was chosen for the Federal Duck Stamp for the 1942 - 1943 season. He worked for the most part in watercolor, although he also produced a number of oils. As well as paintings, he produced a number of etchings and drypoints of sporting subjects; he stopped making new etchings in 1956, but he continued selling prints from his old plates well into the 1960s. His work was also reproduced as lithographs; the Sporting Gallery and Bookshop in New York City published his watercolor TURKEY DRIVE in that form in 1966.

Ripley served as president of the Guild of Boston Artists, where he had begun exhibiting in 1930, for ten years, beginning in 1959. He as also a member of the National Academy of Design, the American Watercolor Society, the Audubon Artists, and the American Artists' Professional League, all in New York City. He received a medal at the Boston Tercentenary Exhibition in 1930; he also exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design, where he showed a few portraits and genre pictures in the 1940s, as well as at the Art Institute of Chicago (IL), the American Watercolor Society, the New York Watercolor Club, the Boston Watercolor Society, the Boston Art Club, with Artists for Victory at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Worcester (MA) Museum of Art, and other places. The actor Robert Montgomery commissioned works from him, showing Montgomery with gun and dogs in the field; one shows Montgomery and James Cagney returning from a pheasant shoot. His PHEASANTS IN THE CORNFIELD is in the Genesee Country Museum in Mumford, NY. The Harmsen Art Museum in Golden, CO, has his TIMBER WOLVES AT BAY. Other institutions holding his work include the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA.

Ripley died in Lincoln, MA on August 29, 1969.

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