Bruce Crane

Haystacks

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...

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...

A fine impressionist painting with figures on a bridge by Hungarian / French artist Francois Gall (1912-1987). Gall was born in Kolozvar, Hungary and began his artistic studies at th...

A wonderful winter village landscape in Bucks County by painted by American artist Paul Bernard King (1867-1947). King was born in Buffalo, New York, and ...

This exceptional fall landscape in the white mountains of New Hampshire was painted by contemporary American artist Erik Koeppel (1980-). Koeppel was born in Oregon and later moved to the White Mountains of New Hampshire, where he became well-known for his mastery of traditional techniques used by the 19th and early 20th century landscape painters. Oil on panel, signed lower right, as well as signed, dated, and titled on verso “Mt. Lafayette from Sugar Hill...

A fine woodland scene oil painting with two birds by American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921). Thayer was born in Boston to a prominent family and attended the Chauncey Hall School, founded by his grandfather. His art teacher there was Henry Morse from whom he learned to do animal portraits. He studied at the Brooklyn Academy of Design with Lemuel Wilmarth, and after marrying Kate Bloede, he went to Paris for a year, as a student of Jean Leon Gerome. In 1879, he opened a studio in Brooklyn in the same building as the studios of Thomas Dewing...

Signed lower left in arrowhead: R.A. Blakelock (NBI-1611-II)

Original oil on canvas painting of a brilliant sunset over a marsh. Signed lower right “A.L. Groll”. Condition is fair. Unlined canvas. Circa 1895. Presently unframed. Albert Gr...

Ashley John is proud to offer this artwork by: John Fabian Carlson (1874/75 - 1945) John F. Carlson was one of the leading American landscape p...

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...

Bruce Crane Field at Dusk Signed lower right Oil on canvas 22 x 30 inches

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...