George Van Millett

Antique KANSAS City Missouri ATMOSPHERIC BARBIZON Tonalist Landscape Painting

1880

Lily Ayres (died 1936) Circa 1910 “Sunrise Gulf in Texas” Monogrammed Oil on Board 8x10 inches unframed 12x14 inches with frame Original frame with Labels verso Lily Ayres is an ex...

Willard Metcalf (1858-1925) was an important American Impressionist, member of the American Watercolor Society, and teaching at Cooper Union and the Art Student's League. This comp...

A fine tonalist landscape by American artist J. Francis Murphy (1853-1921). Murphy was born in Oswego, New York, he moved to Chicago in 1868, where his father was employed in the shipping industry. In Chicago, Murphy began working as a scene painter in a local theatre and was quickly promoted to lead his co-workers. Largely self-taught, his only training consisted of a few classes at the Chicago Academy of Design. There he became friends with Emil Carlsen and Theodore Robinson, and in 1873, Academy members elected him an Associate; a few weeks later, he became an Academician. His work was first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1876, where he was inducted eleven years later.He won numerous prizes, medals and honors for his landscape paintings, which are said to rank with those of George Inness, Alexander Wyant, and Homer Martin. Although his world was a limited one, his landscapes captured the forms of nature and the subtle nuances of the scene. Murphy was referred to as the "American Corot" because of his similarity to the painting style of Camille Corot (1796-1875), one of the original Barbizon...

➡️Rustic Cottage in a Woodland Clearing⬅️ This painting, signed simply 'Adam,' appears to be the work of an artist closely associated with the Barbizon school—a movement that emerge...