S. George Phillips Art

In this gilt wood framed oil on canvas waterscape, American Impressionist artist Harry Hoffman depicts the last moments of a morning sunrise over a river in predominant hues of lavender, purple, pink and blue. The sky is reflected in the water below with a sandy brown beach and large green tree in the foreground. Harry Leslie Hoffman was born in Cressona, a small community in Pennsylvania’s Schuylkill Valley. His mother was an amateur artist who encouraged her son to pursue a career in the arts. In 1893, Hoffman entered the School of Art at Yale University and studied with John Ferguson Weir, the son of Robert Walter Weir. After graduation in 1897, Hoffman moved to New York to continue his studies at the Art Students League. He also traveled to Paris and took classes at the Académie Julien. In the summer of 1902, Hoffman attended the Lyme Summer School of Art, in the town of Old Lyme on the Connecticut coast. The school was headed by Frank Vincent Dumond and was located in a boarding house owned by Florence Griswold. The school eventually grew into an artists’ colony and a center for American Impressionism. When Hoffman first arrived as a student, he was not permitted to stay in the house which was designated for the professional artists only. However, his outgoing personality soon won him many friends at the colony. In 1905, Hoffman settled in Old Lyme and worked as a full member of the artist colony. He was particularly influenced by Willard Leroy Metcalf, an Impressionist also working in Old Lyme. Fellow artists later fondly recalled Hoffman’s antics at the Griswold house, which included playing the flute and banjo, tap-dancing, singing humorous songs, and performing magic tricks. In 1910, Hoffman married another Old Lyme artist named Beatrice Pope, and the couple had one child in 1921. Hoffman and his wife often escaped New England during the harsh winter months. In the winters of 1914 and 1915 he traveled to Savannah, Georgia with fellow Old Lyme artist William Chadwick...

A beautiful antique impressionist painting by American artist Joseph Varga

"Figures, Boats, and House - Cape May Point, NJ" is a Pennsylvania Beach Scene by American Impressionist painter Albert Van Nesse Greene. The ...

19th century Impressionist oil painting of two women in a park. Oil on canvas, circa 1900. Signed illegibly lower left. Displayed in giltwood...

An original American impressionist oil painting of a country road in Maine by Emile Gruppe's cousin, American artist Haley B. Nell. Not much else is known about Nell, although the a...

We might share with you the biography of Texas-born Steven Seymour Thomas (1868-1956), but it would take pages. Consider his precocious talent, which catapulted him to fame in New Yo...

"St. Elmo's Fire" by Sparky LeBold (US and Portugal based) is a beautiful handmade oil painting that depicts a landscape with a bright orange sunset shining in the sky and reflecting...

Leigh Ann Van Fossan's "Cove" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts bright teal colored cove where water meets the shore and the atmospheric pastel sky reflects in the b...

Leigh Ann Van Fossan's "Le Jardin de Monet, III" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impression of a lily pond. Van Fossan was born in Vail, Colorado, and began o...

"Sunlight and Shadow, The White House" is an Impressionist landscape by American painter Albert Van Nesse Greene. The painting is a 28" x 30.25" oil on canvas, framed, and signed in the lower left "A Van Nesse Greene" Provenance: Private Collection, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Born in Jamaica, New York in 1887, Albert Van Nesse Greene (New York, Pennsylvania, 1887 - 1971) had a long and thorough art education. He studied at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The Art Students League, New York; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; and in Paris at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere. He lived in Chester County and painted many landscapes there, as well as in nearby Bucks County. His paintings were exhibited extensively in the United States and France. Examples of his work can be found in the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the National Gallery of Art among many others. He was a member of the Philadelphia Sketch...

Leigh Ann Van Fossan's "The Inlet" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a group of sailboats docked in the darkness as their lights cast glimmering reflections on the i...

"Joy of Spring" is an Impressionist landscape with houses and blooming springtime trees by American painter Albert Van Nesse Greene. The painting is a 18.25" x 22.25" oil on canvas, ...