William Hart

Oil Landscape of Cabin In the Mountains

1881

Joseph Antonio Hekking was a landscape and marine painter born in 1830 in the Netherlands and died in New York in 1903. He studied in Paris and was a talented draftsman who lived in Cherry Valley, NY, Hartford, CT, Detroit, MI, and Washington, D.C. He also exhibited paintings of the Adirondacks at the National Academy of Design (NYC). He served in the Civil War with a New York regiment and exhibited in the Detroit area after the war. He was a versatile and talented painter was active from the early 1850s to the later 1870s and he participated in major exhibitions. His paintings were inspired by visits to the Adirondacks and White Mountains. He is considered an important and relevant early American landscape...

This 19th-century American School river landscape painting by an unknown artist embodies the essence of the era’s reverence for nature and the burgeoning national identity. These wor...

Cyrenius Hall was an artist who painted Western landscapes in a luminous style. He first went to Portland, Oregon in 1853 and 1854 over the Oregon Trail. From there he executed views...

Régis François Gignoux (1816–1882) was a French-American landscape painter known for his contributions to the Hudson River School. Gignoux quickly became an integral part of the Amer...

Gorgeous panoramic sunset landscape by unknown artist, ca. 1850. Oil on canvas measuring 20 x 34 inches. Depicted are the Catskill Mountains facing west from somewhere in Dutchess County NY...

Beautiful example of the Hudson River School romantic bucolic New York autumn landscape with cows foraging. Illegible artist signature on stretcher bar (See enhanced images). Condition: very good; professionally cleaned and minor restoration upper right hand corner where paint was missing. Unframed. Image size: 14"H x 24"W x .75"D Hudson River School was an informal association was America's first so-called school of painting and the dominant landscape style until the Civil War. The name derives from a group of 19th-century landscape painters working in New York state. With realistic composition, they depicted romantic views of unsettled areas of the Hudson River Valley especially lakes, rocky gorges, and forests in the Catskill Mountains. About a fourth of these artists utilized luminism or effects with special lighting techniques to convey lofty emotions through contrasts of light and dark. Included in this Hudson River luminist category were Washington Allston, Albert Bierstadt, William Hart, and Frederic Edwin Church...

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 ...

The painting may not illustrate your story, but it is universal—that desire to honor one’s forerunners and reflect on their daily lives. Consider the many opportunities, comforts and...