Gustave Wolff

High Bridge, New York

Signed and dated lower left: Theo Wendel 84

Johann Berthelsen paints a nighttime view of The Brooklyn Bridge from underneath; Manhattan lights diffuse in the water, traffic passes overhead, and tugboats travel the river below ...

On verso: PALISADES / UNDER-PASS

Signed lower right: G. Inness

Stunning Hudson River School landscape by George Lafayette Clough (1824-1901). High Bridge and Croton Waterworks, Harlem River, ca. 1870. Oil on canvas measures 14 x 21 inches; 26 x 33 inches in original frame. Signed lower left. Old repair of small diagonal puncture measuring 1/2 inch in length to the right of ship sail. Otherwise no damage or conservation to painting. Original frame has several areas of damage and loss and will require conservation. George Lafayette Clough was born September 18, 1824, in Auburn, New York, and was that city's leading landscapist and, known as a Hudson River School painter, became Auburn's most noted resident painter of the mid-century. His mother was widowed shortly after his birth, and he was raised without paternal influence. He had little formal education and was employed by the age of ten. By age fifteen he had taken up painting, and his first and informal art influence came from the portraitist, Randall Palmer. In 1844 Clough opened his own studio in Auburn. About that time Charles Loring Elliott...

An original modern impressionist painting by American artist Chuck Fee Wong depicting the Willis Avenue Bridge on the Harlem River.

This atmospheric Victorian Spanish landscape oil painting is by noted British artist Harold Speed. It was painted in 1894 in a wonderful soft focus Impressionist palette of greys, bl...

The High Bridge oil on panel by Harry DeMaine. Image is 12 x 14 and 13.5 x 15.75 framed. partial Salmagundi label on reverse. Harry DeMaine was born in Liverpool, England. He took h...