Henry Hobart Nichols Jr. Art

Winter Landscape oil/board 13 x 16 image 19. 5 x 22.5 framed Here is a beautiful winter snow scene oil painting on board by Hobart Nichols signed lower right. The painting is in good condition and the frame shows age with wear, chips, etc. and has been touched up. The signature has been covered over slightly with paint but visible lower right. The painting shows Nichols traditional use of a simple but beautiful design and painterly use of paint observed throughout. The painting might benefit from a light cleaning and new coat of varnish but could be hung as is. Henry Hobart Nichols Jr. (May 1, 1869 – August 13, 1962) was an American landscape painter and illustrator.[1] Nichols was born to Henry Hobart and Indiana Jay Nichols on May 1, 1869, in Washington, DC. [2] He studied under Howard Hemlock and Edmund Clarence Messer at the Art Students League of Washington and later, completed in 1905, studies with Caludio Castelucho at the Académie Julian in Paris. Nichols' father, Hobart Nichols Sr., was a noted wood engraver who engraved the sketches in The History of North American Birds by Baird, Brewer and Ridgeway.[3] His mother, Indiana Jay Nichols was skilled at drawing and "interested in all things related to the arts."[4] Hobart’s brother, Spencer Baird Nichols...

A moody image of the Brooklyn Bridge looking toward Manhattan from the Brooklyn Side of the river. One of the nicest Brooklyn Bridge images we've seen, painted around 1915-1920, and...