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John Ross Key"Sailboats in a Bay" John Ross Key, American Landscape, Skyscape, Maritime Scenecirca 1970s
circa 1970s
About the Item
John Ross Key
Sailboats in a Bay
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
15 x 26 inches
Provenance
Private collection, St. Simon's Island, Georgia
Private Collection, by descent
Private Collection, Massachusetts
Born in Hagerstown, Maryland, John Ross Key is the grandson of Francis Scott Key, the author of the words to our national song, "The Star-Spangled Banner," and the son of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Young Key worked as a draftsman for the US Coast Survey from 1852 to 1856. Only the best naturalists and scientists were employed by the Survey, and Key collaborated with artists Gilbert Munge and James McNeill Whistler to create engravings of the eastern US seaboard's features. Although Key was mostly self-taught, it is believed that he may have attended the National Academy of Design while he was in New York City around 1856.
Daniel Sickles, a U.S. Representative from New York who would go on to become a Union General during the Civil War, brutally murdered his father in February 1859 because of the elder Key's liaison with Sickles's wife. Key joined the Lander Oregon Trail expedition in May of that year, which had as its main objective surveying the road that Lander had blazed in 1858. Lander was a member of the recently established Washington Art Association and had strong political connections in Washington, D.C. It is understandable why the U.S. Government also backed the addition of artists to the 1859 mission. Among the artists were Francis Seth Frost, Henry Hitchings, and Albert Bierstadt in addition to Key. Key joined the Confederacy at the beginning of the Civil War, working in Charleston, South Carolina, with the Corps of Engineers. He observed and recorded the siege of that city in 1863 while he was off the coast of South Carolina. He began drawing the slopes of Cheat Mountain, the newly formed state of West Virginia, in 1865.
Key first displayed at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1866. In order to create a series of landscapes for his lithographic prints, Louis Prang, the founder of L. Prang & Company, sent him to California the next year. In 1867, he had an exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after a temporary return to Baltimore, Maryland. He came to California in 1869 to sketch and paint the landscapes of Yosemite, Carmel, Lake Tahoe, the Sierra Nevada mountains, the Golden Gate, Point Lobos, and the enormous Sequoias. It appears that he was particularly enamored with the state's landscape. Key relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, around 1871, and displayed at the Boston Art Club (1875-1878). To paint the White Mountains, he traveled to nearby New Hampshire. The now-famous artist went to Munich, Germany, and Paris, France, in 1873 to pursue formal art studies. Key worked in Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and Baltimore after returning to Boston in 1875 following his studies overseas. Key lived in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore for a brief while from 1904 to 1917 before briefly relocating to Boston.
In 1920, Key passed away in Baltimore. The imposing structures built for the 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago, the 1898 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska, and the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition in St. Louis, Missouri, were painted by Key. He had exhibitions at the Boston Athenaeum, the Mechanics Institute in San Francisco, the National Academy of Design (1866–1879), the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, the Boston Art Club (1875–1878), the Corcoran Gallery (1908), and the Society of Independent Artists (1917). He belonged to both the Boston Art Club and the Society of Washington Artists. Bedford Fine Art Gallery is currently looking to acquire artwork by John Ross Key in addition to selling the pieces listed below.
- Creator:John Ross Key (1832 - 1920, American)
- Creation Year:circa 1970s
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 35 in (88.9 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:Unique WorkPrice: $21,000
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1841216476972
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