Sunset on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick

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William Hart
Sunset on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick

About the Item

William Hart (1823-1894) Sunset on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, 1861 Oil on canvas, 32 x 48 in. Framed dimensions: 40 x 56 inches Signed and dated lower left: Hart 1861 Provenance: H. A. Hurlbut, 1862; Godel & Co.; New York, 1993; private collection, New Mexico, 1994 to the present Exhibited: Brooklyn Art Association, December 1861, no. 49; New York, National Academy of Design, 1862, no. 166; Stamford, Connecticut, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Realism and Romanticism in Nineteenth-Century New England Seascapes, September 15 – November 29, 1989. William Hart lived for nine years at his birthplace of Paisley, Scotland, before his family immigrated to the United States in 1831 and settled in Albany, New York. He began his artistic career humbly, painting carriages and window shades, but by the age of 18 he had become an itinerant portrait painter, traveling as far afield as Virginia and Michigan. This journeyman’s lifestyle ultimately disagreed with Hart; he fell ill in 1849 and left for Scotland to recuperate. In 1852 he returned to the United States committed to landscape painting and soon made a name for himself, becoming an associate of the National Academy of Design upon opening a studio in New York in 1854. William and his brother James M. Hart painted in a Hudson River School style that won praise from critics and patronage from important collectors. From the 1850s into the 1870s Hart was a prominent personality in the New York art world. He was elected a National Academician in 1858 and was a founding member and president of both the Brooklyn Academy of Design and the American Water Color Society. In addition to his enduring presence at National Academy exhibitions from 1848 until his death in 1894, Hart exhibited at the American Art-Union from 1847 to 1849, the Boston Athenaeum from 1855 to 1864, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1854 to 1867, and the Brooklyn Art Association from 1861 to 1883. Major museums that house his work include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York Historical Society, and National Academy of Design, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art; National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Grand Manan Island, Mount Desert Island, and the lush coastline of Maine were popular destinations for nineteenth-century Hudson River school painters, as these locations provided vistas in a “pure, natural state, dramatic cliffs and coves, and…isolation from industrial cities,” which made them perfect settings for artists like Hart to seek inspiration. Sunset on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick offers a dramatic view of the coves, cliffs and rolling waves that are so characteristic of the locale. Though the vista is pictorially faithful to its dramatic natural subject, Hart romanticizes it with vast spaces of sea, sky, and rocks.

Creator:
William Hart (1823 - 1894)
Dimensions:
Height: 32 in (81.28 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Oil
Movement & Style:
Hudson River School
Period:
1860-1869
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Bedford, NY
Reference Number:
Seller: GC-32211stDibs: LU53932696091