Alexander James Landscape Paintings

Artist Statement: "I find the behind the scenes action of more interest than the actual rodeo events themselves. Watching the men and women get ready with their horses before they go...

Artist Statement: "What was she thinking to herself as she waited to go out into the open arena and perform. I had no idea of course. I could only imagine the adrenaline surge that s...

Beautiful pastel by Sid Willis of the Newbury Marshes. Signed lower left, 10" x 18" sight, 14.5" x 22.5" framed. Sidney F. Willis (Sid) (1930-2021) was born in Bennington, New Ha...

Armand Guillaumin (1841 - 1927) Paysage de la Creuse Pastel sur papier - passe-partout crème et cadre doré Signé en bas à gauche 45 x 58 cm (avec le cadre : 66,5 x 79,5 cm) Ce pays...

Landscape with Blooming Trees Paul-Emile Pissarro 1884-1972 French Paper size 9.5x12.5 under glass framed 12x16x1 signed, very good condition. The backi...

Shorebirds in the Surf an Original Pastel by Gregory Biolchini Shorbirds in the Florida Surf by Gregory Biolchini (American, B- 1948). Lively pastel with eager Shorebirds hunting for...

An Impressionist drawing painting of a cat and flowers on a deck by contemporary artist Erik Freyman. Oil and pastel on board, signed in pen Size: 14...

"Hallman's" is a landscape with figures and farmhouse, by American Impressionist painter Albert Van Nesse Greene. The painting is a 13.5" x 19....

John Appleton Brown’s A Path Through the Spring Trees is a radiant pastel on paper that beautifully captures the tenderness of early spring. A softly worn path curves gently through ...

A luminous early 20th-century Western mountain landscape by Elsie Haddon Haynes depicting Silver Plume, Colorado, a historic mining town nestled within t...

Mt. Tamalpais and Stream in the Spring circa 1900 Stream above Lake Bon Tempe with Mt. Tamalpais in the background. A warm spring day in Northern California and the Bay Area. Excell...

Philip Leslie Hale New England Autumn, 1910 Pastel on canvas 25 x 30 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist Sotheby's New York, American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, May 24, 1990, Lot 125 R. Anne McCarthy Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts (gift from the above) Private Collection, Massachusetts Exhibited: Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Tenth Annual Philadelphia Watercolor Exhibition, November 10 - December 15, 1912, no. 13. Painter, teacher and writer, Philip Leslie Hale is recognized for his decorative paintings of the female figure and for his interior scenes with figures as well as for his progressive approach to painting. However, his career went through several phases that included sporting scenes, figural studies of women including nudes, portraits, and allegorical works reflecting the overwhelming forces of nature. Of the Boston painters of his time, he seemed the most fully committed to Impressionism, and his technique suggests the influence of French impressionist Edgar Degas. In most of his paintings, the landscape was more important than the figure. He was a prolific writer in local newspapers and periodicals about the contemporary art scene, discussing the work of his Boston colleagues. He also wrote numerous books on art and art history including a study of Vermeer that was published in 1913. Among his writings are 1892 newspaper columns for Arcadia Magazine titled "Letters from Paris", art criticism for the Boston Herald from 1905 to 1909; and art criticism for the Boston Evening Transcript. He argued for the Boston School of Art as led by Edmund Tarbell whose style was based on Impressionism with elements of Realism, especially figure painting. Hale was born in Boston in 1865, the son Reverend Edward Hale, a Boston clergyman and a relative of Nathan Hale. He studied with Ellen Day Hale, his sister, and Edmund Tarbell at the Boston Museum School, with J. Alden Weir at the Art Students League in New York City, and then went to Paris for further studies at the Academie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He remained in France for fifteen years, returning to America about 1895. During that time, from 1888, he spent summers at Giverny, France with his good friend, artist, Theodore Butler, and became well acquainted with Claude Monet. Traveling throughout Europe, Hale visited the major museums, and copied the works of Ingres, Vermeer, Watteau and Michelangelo. Hale married Lilian Westcott Hale...