Charlotte Buell Coman

"The Meadow" Charlotte Buell Coman, Tonalist Watercolor American Landscape

Late 19th Century

George Henry Smillie Farmland Meadows, 1865 Signed and dated lower left Oil on canvas 10 1/2 x 18 inches Provenance Private Collection, Langley, Washington The career of George Sm...

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...

John Francis Murphy (1853 - 1921) Saratoga, 1876 Graphite on paper Sight 8 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches Titled and dated to lower right Provenance: Babcock Galleries, New York Spanierman Gallery, New York In his lifetime, John Francis Murphy (1853-1921) was known as “the American Corot.” He was renowned for his small, intimate views of nature, especially barren fields and farms, bare trees, and lonely marshland. More than a century later, the power of Murphy’s landscapes has not waned. One contemporary critic wrote, “It was Murphy’s unique accomplishment to achieve an absolute realism without a loss of that mystic, indefinable quality which transfigures realism.” John Francis Murphy was born at Oswego, NY in 1853 but his family moved to Chicago in 1868 where he worked painting theater sets. Murphy was basically a self-taught artist; his only formal training was a few weeks of instruction at the Chicago Academy of Design. In 1875, Murphy moved from Chicago to New York, eventually rooming with the painters Dennis Bunker and Bruce Crane above a bakery shop. Murphy’s early work was typical of the Hudson River school but he soon fell under the sway of the loose brushwork and moody style of French Barbizon painting...

Gilbert Munger Near Bourron, France, circa 1886 Signed lower left Oil on panel 13 x 18 inches Gilbert Munger was born on April 14, 1837 in Madison, Connecticut. He showed interest ...

An original 1891 watercolor painting by noted American landscape artist Charles Partridge Adams, titled "Spring Blossoms." This serene composition captures the Platte River at sunris...

A wonderful landscape study by the artist Albert Stevens, depicting a panoramic view of rolling hills and a distant coastline. Well presented in a double card mount and frame. Signed...

Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 14 inches (height) x 10 inches (width) Signed: Yes Condition: Sound condition, with some minor signs of foxing visible Provenance: Privat...

Landscape of a plain in watercolor on paper. This painting of warm colors reveals a tree-like vegetation that seems to move to the rhythm of the wind. Created by the French paint...