Frederick Hatfield Clark

Autumn Landscape Scene

1888

Manuel Valencia (American, 1856-1935), California Landscape Scene, Oil on Canvas, signed "M. Valencia" lower right, wood frame. Areas of in-painting with prior repairs to canvas. Ima...

Modernist Tuscan Landscape Scene, Acrylic on Canvas, illegibly signed lower right, giltwood frame. Image: 19.5" H x 24" W; frame: 25.75" H x 29.75" W. Provenance: From a New York Cit...

This Hudson River School autumn landscape is done by the famed artist David Johnson. He studied at the national Academy of Design in New York. He was best known for the development o...

A wonderful Autumn landscape likely of the Hudson River Valley by the revered American artist William Louis Sonntag (1822-1900). Sonntag was born near Pittsburgh, PA and moved to Cincinnati, OH in the 1840’s to study art. He studied for a brief time with G. Frankenstein at the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Art and his idealized paintings of American wilderness and visionary paintings of imagined European ruins were commercially successful. He traveled twice to Europe in the 1850’s to improve his skills, eventually settling in New York City. He joined the National Academy of Design, where he exhibited his works for forty years. His mature works identify him with the Hudson River School of landscape painters. A romantic and naturalistic painter of his surroundings, Sonntag also created idealized paintings of Roman ruins, recalling his European trips of earlier years. Sonntag was an Associate (1860) and Academician (1861) at the National Academy of Design, and a member of the American Watercolor Society, Artists Fund Society, and the American Art Union...