James McDougal Hart Art

Harrison Bird Brown (1831 - 1915) Birch Tree in Maine, New England, 19th Century Oil on canvas 25 x 13 1/8 inches Initialed lower left Provenance: Portland International Galleries, Maine Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, Jr., Saratoga Springs, New York and Lexington, Kentucky (President of Brooklyn Borough Gas Company) Private Collection, Chicago Exhibited: Portland Maine, Portland Museum of Art, 58 Maine Paintings 1820-1920: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, Jr., May 20 - June 20, 1976, cat. no. 11. The above catalogue listing this vertical landscape will be included with your purchase. "Mr. Brown has succeeded fully in accomplishing that which Mr. John Ruskin, in speaking of J. M. W. Turner's sea views, said no painter had yet accomplished; that is, the representation of the creamy foam which the storm lashes up from the waves along a rocky shore." Harrison Bird Brown was born in 1831 in Portland, Maine, and is best known for his White Mountain landscapes and marine paintings of Maine...

Harrison Bird Brown (1831 - 1915) Grand Manan Oil on canvas 12 x 20 inches Signed with initials lower left Harrison Bird Brown was born in 1831 in Portland, Maine, and is best known for his White Mountain landscapes and marine paintings of Maine's Casco Bay...

19th century American school; unsigned and painted circa 1860. Displayed in a substantial and period, carved wood and gilt-gesso frame Frame dime...

Monogrammed and dated lower right: TMORAN. 1919.

Monogrammed lower right: AB

This original Hudson River School realist interpretation of the Chapel of the Madonna di Vitela, still standing in exceedingly picturesque Tuscany invites you into the heart of one ...

Thomas Hill Water Stop, 1853 Signed and dated lower left Oil on canvas 14 x 20 inches Provenance: Arader Galleries, New York Immigrating from England ...

Signed and dated lower right: J. F. Cropsey / 1879

Charming Hudson River school antique oil painting of a sailboat on a lake, circa 1880-90. Signed "R. Labarr." after Richard LaBarre Goodwin...

THE WATERFALL - Oil on canvas cm. 55x70 by Paolo De Robertis, Italy 2002. The painting is inspired by the paintings of Thomas Hill, an American landscape painter belonging to the H...

John Ferguson Weir West Point, 1873 Signed and dated lower left Oil on panel 12 1/8 x 20 1/8 inches Provenance: Sotheby's Arcade, American Paintings, December 19, 2003, Lot 1091 Spanierman Gallery, New York Private Collection, New York (acquired directly from the above) Exhibited: Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, William Cullen Bryant, The Weirs and American Impressionism, April 24, 1983-July 31, 1983. A painter, sculptor, writer, and teacher, John Weir was a highly talented man whose painting was overshadowed by his father, Robert Weir, the long-time West Point Academy drawing teacher, and his brother, J Alden Weir, well-known impressionist painter. His distinguished reputation was primarily based on his accomplishments as a teacher and administrator. For many years, from 1869 to 1913, John Weir was the Director of the Yale University School of Fine Arts. He was also a commissioner of the art exhibition at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Weir was born at West Point, New York, and by age 20, had a studio in New York City in the Tenth Street Studio Building, the first building in America dedicated to art studios, and there he associated with many leading painters of the day. He earned attention early in his career for paintings of industrial scenes...

Edward Hill (1843 - 1923) Haying at a North Conway Farm with Mount Washington in the Distance, New Hampshire Oil on canvas 13 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Private Collection, Dallas, Texas Born in Wolverhampton, England in 1843, Edward Hill was the ninth of ten children. Though ultimately less well known than his older brother Thomas Hill (1829-1908), Edward was a productive painter in oil and watercolor for more than sixty years, producing images of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, southern genre scenes, still-life paintings, portraits, American Indian pictures...