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Style: Tonalist
On the Mountain Side
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Chauncey F Ryder
Category
19th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Impressionist Winter Landscape Signed Framed Oil Painting
By Bruce Crane
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nice example from important American tonalist artist Bruce (Robert Bruce) Crane (1857 - 1937). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
1890s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Small Tonalist Landscape by Robertson Mygatt
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Robertson K. Mygatt
(American, 1862-1919)
Trees by a Small Pond
Oil on panel, 5 1/8 x 6 3/4 inches
Framed: 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (approx.)
The landscape painter and etcher Robertson...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Allan Ramsay II, Evening Glow Near Glamis Forfarshire, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century oil painting by Scottish artist Allan Ramsay II (1852-1912) depicts a gentle river view near Glamis in Angus, Scotland. As the sun...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Henry Ward Ranger Connecticut Landscape Oil Painting 1858–1916 American Tonalist
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Henry Ward Ranger
Connecticut Landscape
oil/panel 12 x 16 image size 21 3/8 x 25 3/8 x 2 3/4 framed
A wonderful example of Rangers painting style of glazes and areas of impasto text...
Category
20th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Emil Carlsen American Impressionist Seascape oil Painting Salmagundi Club
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Emil (Soren Emil) Carlsen (1848 or 53 - 1932)
Seascape with Boats
Oil on Board, Signed, Measures ( 6 x 8.5 inches unframed )
w/frame ( 12.75 x 14.25 inches )
The painting is in goo...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chauncey Foster Ryder Landscape with Figures Oil Painting 1868-1949 Tonalist
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
CHAUNCEY FOSTER RYDER (American, 1868-1949),
Pasture Lands
oil/canvas signed LR 31.5 x 39.5 image, 40.5 x 48.5 framed
A wonderfully subtle tonalist painting by Ryder incorprating a farmer/farmhand probably moving cows about the pastures mid right in the scene. Ryder uses a subtle S design from lower left that zig zags upto the figure and cows. The painting shows Ryder's masterful use of abstract design and technique utilizing textures in his application of paint giving the painting life and interest.
Original frame, some craquelure in sky, old surface. Bears Newhouse Galleries, possibly NYC, label verso.
The painting hangs in my collection currently and would benefit from a cleaning and new varnish. It is a large museum quality oil painting. Will need white glove shipping as it is too large and the 15% discount for anyone whos saves this painting in their favorites more than covers the cost of shipping. The handling time is listed as 10 days but is dependant on who 1stdibs hires and their schedule to pick up and deliver. 3 -7 weeks is listed in the shipping section.
Bio-
Chauncey Foster Ryder (29 February 1868 – 18 May 1949)[1] was an early 20th century American Postimpressionist Tonalist landscape painter known for a green-gray palette termed 'Ryder green'.
Education and personal life
Ryder was born in 1868 in Danbury, Connecticut, but grew up mainly in New Haven.[2][3] He began studying painting as a boy. In his early twenties, he moved to Chicago to attend the Art Institute,[4] then Smith's Academy.[5] After only a year at the latter, he was hired as an instructor.[5]
In 1891, he married Mary Dole Keith.[5] In 1901, they moved to Paris, France, where Ryder continued his art education, studying with Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian. Ryder stayed in France for several years, living in an art colony at Étaples and exhibiting his work at the Paris Salon (1903–1909).[3] He took on occasional students, including American painter William Posey Silva...
Category
20th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Navajos at Rest
By Edgar Payne
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Navajos at Rest" is an oil on canvas painting by Edgar Alwin Payne. The painting is signed at the lower right, "Edgar Payne". The framed piece measures 25 1/4...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Boston Windmills”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful tonalist oil on canvas painting by the well known American artist, Royal Hill Milleson. Signed lower right. Milleson moved to Boston in 1...
Category
1890s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Venetian Boats at Sotto Marino
By Edgar Payne
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Venetian Boats at Sotto Marino" is a painting by Edgar Alwin Payne. The painting is signed lower left, "Edgar Payne". The framed piece measures 31 1/2 x 34 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.
Payne wa...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Battle
Located in Chicago, IL
It is only after we emerged from the horrible Pandemic, that we realized what a battle it was for simple daily living. Tom created The Battle a few years into the Pandemic.
The pict...
Category
2010s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pigment, Rag Paper, Oil
Sunset, 1910 by Hudson Mindell Kitchell (American, 1864-1944)
Located in New York, NY
An early 20th century nocturne by Hudson Mindell Kitchell (1864-1944), Sunset, 1910 features a figure sitting beneath a tree beside a body of w...
Category
20th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Summer Landscape" Charles Harry Eaton, Tonalist Barbizon Landscape
By Charles Harry Eaton
Located in New York, NY
Charles Harry Eaton
Summer Landscape
Signed lower right
Watercolor on paper
9 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches
Inspired by the Barbizon style of painting and devoted to the Detroit landscape...
Category
Late 19th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Emil Carlsen American Impressionist landscape oil Painting Salmagundi Club
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Yellow Landscape/Wood Interior/Birch Forest
3 different titles on 3 labels
DESCRIPTION
Yellow Landscape oil /panel
bears Florence G. Carlsen Estate stamp on Brett Mitchell Collecti...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Charles Rollo Peters Monterey Sunset or Moonrise
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charles Rollo Peters: 1862-1928. Well listed California painter with auction results over $57,000. He was born in San Francisco but spent much of his adult life in Monterey. He is be...
Category
Late 19th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Mount Rockwell, Glacier National Park, Montana, " Mountain Lake Landscape View
Located in New York, NY
Charles Warren Eaton (1857 – 1937)
The Shadow of Mount Rockwell, Glacier National Park, Montana, 1921
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches
Signed lower right: CHAS WARREN EATON.
Provenance:
The artist
The Macbeth Gallery, New York
Private Collection
Sotheby's New York, American Art, April 14, 1989
ConocoPhillips, Houston
Simpson Galleries, Houston, Fine Art & Antiques, May 18, 2019, Lot 447
Exhibited:
New York, The Macbeth Gallery, Paintings of Glacier National Park by Charles Warren Eaton, December 13, 1921 - January 2, 1922, no. 2.
Literature:
"Two Exhibitions at Macbeth's," American Art News, New York, Vol. XX, No. 10, December 17, 1921.
A contemporary critic wrote that the paintings of Charles Warren Eaton appeal to “the dreamers who find in them the undiscovered scenes in which their fancy long has dwelt.” Eaton’s contemplative landscapes exude a spiritual quality that moves the observer into a similar frame of mind. He loved to depict the ethereal light of dawn and dusk in late autumn or winter, usually without any reference to human or animal figures or buildings. These Tonalist paintings, with their subdued palette and relatively intimate scale, marked a definite break with the fading popularity of the panoramic and romantic views of the Hudson River School painters.
Charles Warren Eaton was born in Albany, New York to a family of limited means. He began painting while working in a dry-goods store. At age 22, he enrolled at the National Academy of Design in New York City and then studied figure painting at the Art Students League. By 1886, he was successful enough to quit his day job and make a living as a landscape painter. That year, he traveled to Europe with fellow Tonalist painters Leonard Ochtman and Ben Foster. In France, Eaton visited popular artist’s spots such as Paris, Fontainebleau and Grez-sur-Loing, and fell in love with the loose brushwork and moody style of French Barbizon painting.
Returning to the United States, Eaton fell under the spell of George Inness, the foremost exponent of Barbizon style in the United States. In 1888, Eaton settled near Inness in Bloomfield, New Jersey, where Eaton lived until his death in 1937. In this period, he painted shadowy and ambiguous landscapes inspired by rural scenery in the northeastern United States. His signature theme was a cropped view of the branches, trunks, and foliage of a pine grove silhouetted against a delicately illuminated sunset or moonlit sky. He painted this vision so often between 1900 and 1910 that he picked up the sobriquet ‘‘The Pine Tree Painter.”
After 1910, Eaton responded to the popularity of Impressionism by using brighter colors and painting sunlit daytime scenes. In 1921, he was hired to paint Glacier Lake, in Glacier National Park by the Great Northern Railroad Company as part of their ‘See America First’ campaign. He produced more than 20 paintings, among the artist's last works, that now poignantly remind viewers of the vast disappearing glaciers. Eaton tended to approach this mountain scenery from an oblique vantage point; he liked to capture small episodes, showing mountaintops nearly obscured by dramatically attenuated screens of fir trees.
Eaton, like many Tonalist artists of his generation such as Henry Ward Ranger, John Francis Murphy, and Charles Melville Dewey...
Category
1920s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Dennis Sheehan, "Changing Seasons" 12x12 Autumn Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Changing Seasons", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 12x12 oil painting on canvas featuring a marshy green landscape in hazy autumn light. Changing foliage highlights the trees in colors of rusted reds and ochres, reflecting in the water below.
About the artist:
Dennis Sheehan's work is often described as reminiscent of the great masters of the Barbizon School, in France in the 19th century, and the American Tonalist. Born in Boston in 1950, he has works in major public and private collections, including the White House. His work has been featured in many publications including the featured cover of American Artist.
Dennis Sheehan received his training in the best traditions of the Boston School, studying at the Vesper George School of Art and the Montserrat School of Visual Art. He also studied with two of R.H. Gammell's former students, Robert Cormier...
Category
2010s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tonalist Painting Sunset Figures Wheat Barbizon Framed 19th Century Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
An antique oil painting in its original ornate gold leaf frame.
This tonalist painting depicts figures against a dramatic sunset.
The work is signed illegibly lower left. It ap...
Category
1860s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Dennis Sheehan, "August Afternoon", Tonalist Landscape Tree Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "August Afternoon", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 12x12 oil painting on canvas featuring a traditional marshy green landscape just before dusk. Cool afternoon light surro...
Category
2010s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Dennis Sheehan, "Winter's Warmth", Tonalist Landscape Mountain Tree Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Winter's Warmth", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 12x12 oil painting on canvas featuring a traditional snowy landscape just before dusk. Warm afternoon light surrounds fol...
Category
2010s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Green Field and Barn - A Tonalist Landscape by Robertson Mygatt
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Robertson K. Mygatt
(American, 1862-1919)
Green Field and Barn
Oil on panel, 6 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches
Framed: 10 x 15 inches
The landscape painter and etcher Robertson K. Mygatt was born in New York City and studied at the Art Students’ League with John Twachtman...
Category
1910s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Dennis Sheehan, "Evening Prelude", Moody Sunset Tonalist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Evening Prelude", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 14x18 oil painting on canvas featuring a marshy green landscape at dusk. This moody painting shows tree line at the horiz...
Category
2010s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early Tonalist Landscape -- California Coastal Live Oaks William Schneider 1915
Located in Soquel, CA
Early Tonalist Landscape -- California Coastal Live Oaks William Schneider 1915
Beautiful early 20th Century tonalist landscape of California by New York artist William G. Schneider ...
Category
1910s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Tonalist Hills and River
Located in Hillsborough, NC
The technique of American Tonalism is evident in this oil painting on canvas from the early 20th century/late 19th century. Hues of muted greys cre...
Category
20th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Field at Dusk, " Bruce Crane, Tonalist Landscape View in Late Autumn at Dusk
By Bruce Crane
Located in New York, NY
Bruce Crane
Field at Dusk
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
22 x 30 inches
Category
1890s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dennis Sheehan, "Glowing Hedgerow", Moody Tonalist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Glowing Hedgerow", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 18x24 oil painting on canvas featuring a marshy green landscape at dusk. This moody painting shows tree line at the hori...
Category
2010s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cetaldo (Italy) In The Rain
By Anna Hornby
Located in Brecon, Powys
Oil on canvas of a Italian Rural scene by this well known and much exhibited artist.
Cetaldo In The Rain catches the atmosphere of a gentle rain on a hot summers day.
Anna Hornby (1914 - 1996) studied art in Florence with landscape and flower painter Aubrey Waterfield in 1934, and later that year enrolled at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London where she studied under Francis Ernest Jackson...
Category
1960s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Autumn, 1923
By Bruce Crane
Located in Milford, NH
A splendid Autumn tonalist landscape by American artist Bruce (Robert Bruce) Crane (1857-1937). Crane was born in New York City, and as an artist, was influenced by the French Barbizon school of...
Category
1920s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dennis Sheehan, "Mid Fall" 12x12 Tonalist Tree Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Mid Fall", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 12x12 oil painting on canvas featuring a daytime landscape setting during autumn. Tree leaves are deep reds, purple, oranges an...
Category
2010s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Nymphs at Dusk', Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, Tonalist Oil, Three Graces, AIC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Emerson' for William C. Emerson (American, 1865-1937) and dated 1910.
Original card board, verso, was additionally signed 'W. C. Emerson' and titled, 'The Dance' (images included were taken prior to lay down).
Displayed in a period, carved and giltwood frame; framed dimensions: 27.75 x 33.75 x 1.5 inches.
Born in London, England, William Emerson...
Category
1910s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil, Masonite
Indian Encampment
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower left in arrowhead: R.A. Blakelock
(NBI-1611-II)
Category
Late 19th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Tonalist Landscape -- Afternoon by the Pond
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous tonalist oil painting woman walking in field by pond with home in background by Willis Seaver Adams (American, 1844-1921), circa 1880. Trees and an amazing sky in the background add depth and interest to this beautiful piece. Signed "W. S. Adams" lower right corner. Condition: Previous restoration includes relining of canvas. Frame is vintage gilt molded and wood frame and shows previous repair of molding losses. Image size: 20"H x 24"W.
Willis Seaver Adams was known for his landscapes of the Connecticut River Valley. A relative recluse for much of his artistic life, his loneliness can be seen in much of his works. Oil miniatures were the focus for almost all of his later works. He is credited with over 425 oils, watercolors, and drawings.
Willis Seaver was born in 1844 on a farm in Suffield, near the Connecticut River. He intermittently attended the Suffield Academy, and always wanted to be a painter. A wealthy doctor became his patron, and financed his studies in 1868 at the Royal Academy in Antwerp. When the doctor passed away, Adams returned home and struggled to make a living painting. After working for a photographer for three years, he opened his own studio.
Adams helped organize Clevelands first watercolor exhibit in 1876. Soon thereafter, he completed a portrait of Rutherford B. Hayes, then governor of Ohio, prior to his becoming President of the United States. This portrait enhanced Adams notoriety.
In 1878, Adams traveled to Italy where he opened a studio in Venice, and became friendly with neighbor James Whistler. Prior to returning to Springfield, Adams lived in Florence, Italy for three years. He returned to became an instructor for the Springfield Art Association, and began to exhibit his works at the galleries of James D. Gill. His first one-man exhibit was held there in 1894. Other successful exhibitions took place in Chicago, New York, and Boston. Although his works garnered respectable prices and reflected his success, Adams felt he was due more recognition.
In 1906, he moved to Greenfield, Massachusetts and converted a barn into a studio. There, he fell into relative obscurity, accompanied mainly by his dog, Collie. In 1921, Adams passed away.
Examples of Willis Adams works can be seen at the Kent Memorial Library, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and the Suffield Academy. Several Suffield residents are thought to own Adams paintings.
Category
1880s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Le Vesle
By Leon Dabo
Located in Lawrence, NY
Oil on canvas. Estate of the artist.
Leon Dabo (1865-1960) enjoyed widespread acclaim in a career that stretched nearly a century. He was one of the primary students of Whistler and his work was a “virtual international style by 1910." He was an artist "who created works of decorative and spiritual abstraction that became icons of their age.” (David Cleveland, A History of American Tonalism...
Category
1930s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dennis Sheehan, "Across the Marsh", 18x24 Tonalist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Across the Marsh", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 18x24 oil painting on canvas featuring a marshy green landscape at dusk. This moody painting shows tree line at the hori...
Category
2010s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"November, " Bruce Crane, Tonalism Landscape Autumn Scene, American Impressionism
By Bruce Crane
Located in New York, NY
Bruce Crane (1857 - 1937)
November
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches
Signed lower right
Robert Bruce Crane was an American painter. He joined the Lyme Art Colony in the early 1900s. His ...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Woodstock After the Rain
By Leon Dabo
Located in Lawrence, NY
This is an early work showing the mist still in the air after the rain has fallen. It is nearly abstract in its affect and describes what Dabo was, arguably, best known for: evanes...
Category
1910s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Seashore, Dawn
By Leon Dabo
Located in Lawrence, NY
Leon Dabo (1865-1960) enjoyed widespread acclaim in a career that stretched nearly a century. He was one of the primary students of Whistler and his work was a “virtual international style by 1910." He was an artist "who created works of decorative and spiritual abstraction that became icons of their age.” (David Cleveland, A History of American Tonalism...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cattle By Pond At Dusk, Mid-19th Century Tonalist Landscape by William Keith
Located in Soquel, CA
Cattle By Pond At Dusk, Mid-19th Century Tonalist Landscape by William Keith
Gorgeous mid-19th century landscape painting by William Keith (American, 1838-1911), circa 1860. This impressive Tonalist landscape, titled "In the Woods", depicts cattle beside a pond in the forest at dusk. Keith uses loose, blended brush strokes and a muted earthy palette to create an atmospheric mood that Tonalism is known for.
Signed "W. Keith" lower left.
Museum label on verso from Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Presented in an antique giltwood frame.
Image size: 9"H x 13"W. With frame measures: 16"H x 20"W x 3"D.
Provenance:
Mrs. Eugene Patterson; Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Authenticity guaranteed and certificate include.
Condition:
Very good. Cleaning and restoration required signature to be re-touched, original images pre-restoration available.
About the Artist:
Brought to New York City in 1850, William Keith was apprenticed to a wood engraver in 1856 working for "Harper's" magazine. In 1858 (or 1859) he visited California for "Harper's" and then after a trip to Great Britain, settled in California as an engraver in 1862. He began exhibiting paintings in 1864 in San Francisco where he opened his studio, after having been taught painting by his wife.
The Northern Pacific Railroad...
Category
Late 19th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
'Breaking Wave, California Coast', Tonalist Seascape, New York, Sacramento
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Pogacar' for Vincent Pogacar (American, 1929-1997) and painted circa 1985.
A cabinet-sized study of ocean water breaking against b...
Category
1980s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Spring Landscape Along the Stream, " Hugh Bolton Jones, Antique Tonalist Scene
By Hugh Bolton Jones
Located in New York, NY
Hugh Bolton Jones (1848 - 1927)
Spring Landscape Along the Stream
Oil on canvas
22 x 30 inches
Signed lower right
A Baltimore, Maryland native, Hugh...
Category
Late 19th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Last Light, Landscape at Sunset, " William Keith, California Tonalist, Forest
Located in New York, NY
William Keith (1838 - 1911)
Last Light, Landscape at Sunset
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches
Signed lower right
A native of Scotland, William Keith became in the late 19th and early 20th centuries a leading Northern-California landscape artist. In fact, he was so well known that he is referred to as the "Dean of California painters." His romanticized views of nature found much favor among the culturally aspiring citizens of San Francisco and hung in many foyers and dining rooms in their elegant homes. He completed thousands of paintings and drawings, and many of them were lost in his studio in the fire of 1906.
His early works are dramatic mountainscapes in a realistic style adopted from the Dusseldorf School of Germany. The paintings of the last two decades of his life are looser and obviously influenced by his exposure in France to the Barbizon School of landscape painters, who were the first colony of painters to complete paintings "en plein air," or directly from nature rather than in studios. A forerunner of Impressionism, this style also included Tonalism espoused by Barbizon painter Camille Corot [1796-1875] and also apparent in Keith's later works, which are darker, smaller, and much more intimate with emphasis on mood.
Born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Keith came to New York with his family and, apprenticed to a wood engraver. In 1859, he moved to San Francisco where he worked for an engraver and later set up his own engraving business. Studying with Samuel Marsden Brookes in 1863, he determined to become a painter.
He married artist Elizabeth Emerson and did watercolor painting with her guidance. In 1868, he became a full-time painter, and that same year was commissioned to paint scenes along the Columbia River including Mount Hood. By August 1869 he had sold enough paintings to finance an extended journey to the East Coast and Europe including Dusseldorf, Germany throughout most of 1870, studying with Albert Flamm. After a visit to Paris, he expressed great admiration for "the modern school of French landscape painting including the Barbizon School.
During the winter of 1871-1872, the Keiths lived in Boston where they shared a studio with William Hahn. Keith's work received critical acclaim there and in New York at the National Academy of Design.
In 1872, he returned to San Francisco. A friendship with naturalist John Muir exposed Keith to many remote places and in-depth knowledge of nature. During the 1870s, he painted several "epic" eight by ten-foot High Sierra views. He also visited Alaska, and his paintings of Alaska were exhibited upon his return to San Francisco in a show at the Bohemian Club, titled 'Dreams of Alaska'. Keith's Alaska works are significant because they are not close transcriptions of actual scenery, but rather are fantasies inspired by Alaska. They are important as they represent a major break from the documentary tradition in landscape painting of Alaska, as they show an interest in capturing its spirit versus just the topography.
The first wife of William Keith died in 1882, and in 1883, he married Mary McHenry, the first woman graduate of Hastings Law School. They soon went to Europe, and Keith studied portrait painting in Munich with consultations from J. Frank Currier and Carl Marr for two years. Keith then settled for the remainder of his life in Berkeley, California, at 2207 Atherton Street. His studio was in San Francisco where he commuted daily, painted prolifically, and taught many classes, mostly for aspiring female artists .
In 1891, he shared his studio for several weeks with East Coast Tonalist George Inness, Sr. [1825-1894]. Both men painted in a similar style and were followers of the mystical teachings of Swedenborg. Among the locations where Inness and Keith painted together were Monterey and Yosemite, and it was reported they discussed art from every possible angle. Under Inness' influence, Keith painted more than ever in a Barbizon-influenced vein with many sunset and twilight scenes.
By the early 1900s, Keith was likely one of the wealthiest artists in the United States and certainly earned the most money of any California-based artist. People from all over the world sought out his studio where it was said that he would specially select a painting for a client from behind a black velvet curtain...
Category
Late 19th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Verdant Summer Landscape, " Olive Parker Black, Tonalism, Female Artist Stream
Located in New York, NY
Olive Parker Black (1868 - 1948)
Verdant Summer Landscape
Oil on canvas
20 x 30 inches
Signed lower left
An accomplished landscape painter, Olive Black ...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Stone Wall, Autumn, " George Smillie, Tonalist Fall Landscape View
Located in New York, NY
George Henry Smillie (1840 - 1921)
Stone Wall, Autumn, 1879
Oil on canvas
9 1/2 x 15 inches
Signed and dated lower right
Provenance:
Skinner, Boston, September 19, 2014, Lot 389
The career of George Smillie (1840-1921) followed the arc of nineteenth-century U.S. landscape painting. Trained in the Hudson River School tradition, Smillie successfully adapted to changing U.S. tastes and growing interest in European trends. In the late 1800s, he moved to tonalist paintings full of brushwork and influenced by French Barbizon painting. By the end of his career, he had lightened his palette to produce works similar to those of the U.S. impressionists. Yet in all styles, he was never less than competent, and his tonalist work is among the best produced in the United States.
Like many nineteenth-century painters, George Smillie’s artistic training began with the study of printing. His father, James Smillie...
Category
1870s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Wind River - Wyoming
By Eliot Clark
Located in New York, NY
Wind River- Wyoming by Eliot Clark (1883-1980)
Oil on canvas, linen relined
14 x 20 inches unframed (35.56 x 50.8 cm)
18 ¼ x 24 inches framed (46.355 x 60.9...
Category
20th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen, Canvas
Autumnal San Francisco Cove and Surf with Whalers Shack circa 1900
Located in Soquel, CA
Autumnal San Francisco Cove and Surf with Whalers Shack circa 1900
Early California Tonalist painting of the San Francisco Coast and a Whalers Cabin. Possibly by D.A. Fisher (American, 1867-1940). Nocturnal paintings in the late 19th century were very popular in the United States. Condition is stellar and excellent with a period frame having a bit of age yellowing to the finish and the gold leaf filets are beaming.
Image, 16"H x 22"D
Frame, 22"H x 28"W x 2.5"D
Fisher appears to have spent most of his career in Portland, Maine. He was an itinerant artist who painted in the San Francisco Bay area in 1891 and at Mount Shasta...
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1890s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Autumn Landscape, " Bruce Crane, Tonalist American Impressionist Fall Scene
By Bruce Crane
Located in New York, NY
Bruce Crane (1857 - 1937)
Autumn Landscape
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches
Signed lower right
Robert Bruce Crane was an American painter. He joined the Lyme Art Colony in the early 190...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
River Landscape, Autumn
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower left: W MERRITT POST
Category
20th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dennis Sheehan, "Autumn Afternoon", 18x30 Dusk Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Autumn Afternoon", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 18x30 oil painting on canvas featuring a landscape at dusk. Remaining light from the setting sun burns the sky in a pink...
Category
2010s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dennis Sheehan, "Winter Dusk", 16x20 Snowy Landscape Tonalist Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Winter Dusk", is a 16x20 winter landscape oil painting on canvas by artist Dennis Sheehan. Featured is view over a snow covered marshland during the evening hours. The w...
Category
2010s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Elbridge Kingsley 19th Century Tonalist Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
Elbridge Kingsley: 1842-1918. Listed American artist whose paintings are very rare. He was born in Carthage Ohio and moved to Hatfield Massachusetts as an infant. He ended up becoming a successful wood engraver printing a lot of George Inness and Albert Pinkham Ryder...
Category
Late 19th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
New York City Street Scene at Night
By Frederick (Frank) Usher De Voll
Located in Milford, NH
A wonderful tonalist cityscape of New York City at night by American impressionist artist Frederick (Frank) Usher De Voll (1873-1941). De Voll was born i...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Boat at the Dock, Alviso Bay Area Tonalist Landscape Watercolor by Iku Nagai
By Iku Nagai
Located in Soquel, CA
Boat at the Dock, Alviso Bay Area Tonalist Landscape Watercolor by Iku Nagai
Lovely Tonalist watercolor landscape of Alviso, California by Iku K. Nagai (Japanese/American, b. 1932)....
Category
1980s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Watercolor
Winter Rooftops
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Gustave Wolff
Category
20th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
High Bridge, New York
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Gustave Wolff
Category
20th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Mirror of the Woods-Painting by Charles Melville Dewey-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Mirror of the woods is an original painting realized by Charles Melville Dewey, in the early 20th Century.
Mixed colored oil painting on ca...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Water and Ice
Located in Lawrence, NY
Note: Housed in its original Harer frame
"Water and Ice" by Paul Bernard King is one of the finest tonalist pieces we have ever seen. Just as a reminder: Whistler was a tonalist painter. Tonalism has been called by some art historians the first truly indigenous American art...
Category
1910s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Summer Evening in the Swedish Archipelago", original oil on canvas, Tonalist
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
This is an original unique oil painting by the artist. Sigfrid Andreas "Sigge" Jernmark (July 9, 1887 – July 12, 1982) was a Swedish painter, cartoonist and decorator. Jernmark recei...
Category
20th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
" A Twilight River Landscape", original oil circa 1895, impressionist style
By Karl Heffner
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
This is an original unique oil painting by the artist. A Twilight River Landscape by Karl Heffner (1849 – 1925), signed K Heffner (lower left). Oil on board, from an English estate.
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Category
19th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tonalist landscape paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
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