Olive Parker Black Paintings

A fine landscape with village by American artist Olive Parker Black (1868-1948). Black was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She studied art with Hugh Bol...

Olive Parker Black (1868 - 1948) Boats Near An Inlet Oil on canvas 12 x 24 inches Signed lower left Provenance: Shannon's, Milford, Connecticut, April 30, 2009, Lot 224 Private Collection, New York. Olive Parker Black was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She enrolled in the School of Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she studied with Otto Grundmann and Frank Crowninshield. In the early 1890s, she left for New York City to study at the Art Students League under William Merritt Chase and Edwin Blashfield. Under the tutelage of William Merritt Chase, artist Olive Parker Black studied plein air techniques of the Impressionists, and was considered one of Chase’s best students. She also attended Shinnecock Summer School of Art on Long Island, where Chase taught. 19th century artist Olive Parker Black moved to New York City in 1910; however, she maintained a summer residence in South Egremont, Massachusetts, where Barbizon-style artist Hugh Bolton Jones also summered. Jones apparently had a great influence on Black’s style also—skillfully executed landscapes that combined looser brushwork of the Impressionists with Barbizon-derived tonal qualities. She was a member of the National Association of Women Artists; Painters, Sculptors; New York Society of painters; American Artists Professional League and the Boston Art...

Impressionist fall landscape by Olive Parker Black (1868-1948). Oil on canvas, circa 1920. Signed lower right, "Olive P. Black". Displayed in...