Catskill Mountains from Germantown NY

ca. 1850

Beautiful seaside boathouse painting by Franklin Shores (1942-2020). Watercolor on rag paper measuring 22 x 29 inches. Signed lower right. Excellent condition. Provenance: Collec...

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...

"Catskill Mountains Landscape," by Hudson River School painter Edward Delavan Nelson (American, 1821-1871) is oil on canvas and measures 15 x 24 inches. It is signed with the artist'...

John Henry Hill 1839-1922 Signed lower right Dated: 1857 Sight size: 3 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches Overall size: 7 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches oil on panel Good condition Kennedy Gallery Label Verso ...