Judith Simonds

Dusk

2018

Artist Commentary: Thanksgiving sunset in the Texas Hill Country. Keywords: Landscape Artist Biography: Judith grew up 15 miles north of Milwaukee in t...

Artist Commentary: A powerful storm was rolling in from west Texas when I captured this image with my camera. I painted it a few years later. The original artwork is matted and frame...

Artist Commentary: Texas hill country sunset on a warm October evening. Keywords: Landscape Artist Biography: Judith grew up 15 miles north of Milwaukee in the town of Mequon, Wis...

Artist Commentary: This image is drawn from my imagination and imagery that I am inspired by. Keywords: Landscape Artist Biography: Judith grew up 15 miles north of Milwaukee in t...

'Lugar de Encuentro (Montes de Malaga)' Original Artwork. Unframed ______________ The evening light is creating layered lines and meeting places in the mountains, that only exist in...

'Dawn Lake (Blue Ridge Mountains)' Original Artwork. Unframed ______________ The dawn is painting transient layered reflections in the water, shifting the softened space between whe...

'Ebren Ha Dor, Tremenus'. Contemporary landscape painting, Cornwall Original Artwork. Framed ready to hang _________________ The dancing light and rapidly changing skies, hung high a...

Peter Caledon Cameron (American, born Scotland, 1852-c. 1920) Absecon Island, New Jersey, 1894 Watercolor on paper, 17 1/2 x 27 inches (sight) FRAMED: 26 1/2 x 36 1/2 inches Signed and dated at lower left: "ABSECON.ISLAND./ N.J-U.S.A Cameron/1894" N.J-U.S.A Cameron/1894" Born in Perth, Scotland, Peter Caledon Cameron won awards for drawing and penmanship at a Glasgow public school. He claimed that at the age of fourteen his watercolors were already "in demand," and that before turning twenty he had "crossed every ocean in the world, sketching and painting as he went." He attended the Government School of Design in London and was certified as an art master in 1883. Cameron immigrated to the United States that year, settled in Philadelphia, and commenced work on large history paintings such as Niagara in Winter (unlocated) and Vesuvius in Grand Eruption (unlocated) that he exhibited in various northern cities. He exhibited one painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1902. Nothing is known of his activities later in life. In a lengthy inscription that accompanies this watercolor, Cameron noted that Absecon was "a piece of the best sand-dune region characteristic of the whole coast of New Jersey State from Sandy Hook point in the North to Cape May Point in the extreme south." This was one among a number of studies the artist made for a large oil painting titled "Captain Kidd Burying His Treasure" (unlocated). The famous Scottish privateer Captain William Kidd...