Erna Scharff

Impressionist Pastoral Lake Landscape Painting

Mid 20th Century

Naturalistic fall landscape with beautiful green hues. There is a small man in the foreground of the painting. The work is framed in a painted wooden frame with a red, slanted greek key pattern. The artists' name is signed on a gold plate in the bottom center of the frame. Dimensions without Frame: H 12.5 in x W 15.5 in. Artist Biography: From Switzerland, he became noted for his paintings of Alpine mountains, although he also painted scenes from his travels in Germany and especially Italy. He studied with landscape painter, Francois Diday, and by 1835, had sold a landscape to the museum in Bern. He also exhibited with the Paris Salons beginning in the late 1830s. Calame lived most of his life in Geneva, but in 1863, he moved to the French Riviera for health reasons. His composition method was often placing a large clump of trees at one side of the painting and "a sharply receding diagonal leads away from it to a view, often of mountains in the far distance." (83) It was a motif that had much appeal to American collectors of that era, and one of his landscapes, a part of the bequest of James Suydam...

Contemporary realistic Texas landscape nature painting by Houston based artist Jerry Greenberg. The work features a pair of trees casting shadows in an open field. Signed in the front lower right corner as well as titled on the reverse. Currently hung in a gold frame. Dimensions Without Frame: H 24 in. x W 30 in. Artist Biography: I have a deep appreciation for nature. In my work I seek to convey the landscape as I experience it emotionally as well as visually. I travel frequently throughout the United States and Europe in search of new landscapes. Some of my favorite subjects include rivers and creeks in the Texas hill country; aspen trees in the Rocky Mountains; ponds in New England; and lush rolling hills in the English countryside. My influences include French and Russian Impressionists and early California landscape...

Clemens Freitag German, 1882/83-1969 Winter Landscape With Deer Oil on canvas 35 by 50 in. W/frame 45 by 60 in. Signed lower right Landscape and...

William Beattie-Brown, RSA, (1831-1909) painted landscapes with great mastery of the elements, known for his rendering of rapids in waters and detailed...