454. Edward Franklin Fisk (American, 1886-1944), "Summer Landscape", c. 1935; oil/canvas, 25" x 30", signed. Fisk studied in New York with Henri, and in Paris with Othon Friesz and Pierre Laprade (at the Academie Moderne). Fisk was part of the intellectual elite in Greenwich Village in the 1910s-20s, with Marcel Duchamp, Charles Demuth, and John Reed. The group spent summers in Provincetown, where he shared a room with Eugene O’Neill. He exhibited at the Daniel Gallery (New York, 1910s); Gamut Club (New York, 1917, in an exhibition of Futurist paintings by American artists); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, University of Kentucky, and the Speed Museum. He began teaching at the University of Kentucky (Lexington) in 1926, and remained there until 1942. His work is in the collection of the University of Kentucky Art Museum. Works by this painter rarely appear at auction. 6000-8000