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Astley David Middleton Cooper
'Lake Landscape, Evening', San Francisco, Leland Stanford, Washington University
1879

About the Item

Signed lower left, 'A. D. Cooper' for Astley David Middleton Cooper (American, 1856-1924) and dated 1879. Framed dimensions: 19.5 x 22.5 x 2 inches A.D.M. Cooper was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and George Catlin, the explorer and early painter of Plains Indian life, was a close family friend and his paintings and stories inspired Cooper's lifelong fascination with Native Americans. After studying art at Washington University, Cooper embarked on his own exploration of the western territories, living with Indians and recording his experiences in drawings and paintings. He spent two years in Boulder, Colorado, drawing for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, and making easel paintings of subjects and western landscapes. At age 24, Cooper moved to San Francisco and soon adopted the life of a bohemian artist, setting up his first studio in the city's Latin Quarter. His reputation grew quickly and, by the early 1880's. he was selling his paintings in the eastern United States and in Europe. Cooper moved to San Jose, California, in 1883, eventually building an elaborate studio in the Egyptian style. His contemporaries considered him one of the most important artists in California and his paintings were purchased or commissioned by members of the California aristocracy, including Mrs. Leland Stanford. During his lifetime, Cooper achieved great commercial success and his paintings commanded high prices. One large canvas, Trilby, named for a Du Maurier novel, sold for $62,000 in the 1890s, an enormous sum that is equivalent to over $2,100,000 in contemporary dollars (2022). Throughout his career, Cooper painted scenes of the frontier and Native life, especially Plains Indian encampments and buffalo hunts. He decried Federal policies toward the Indians and, like many artists of the time, he felt an urgency to capture the ways of a "vanishing race." However, Cooper's paintings were by no means intended as literal documents of specific people and places. They were, instead, romantic visions intended to elicit favorable emotions about the mythology and the traditions, and the passing, of the "noble Indian." Cooper heightened the romantic mood of his works with dramatic chiaroscuro and atmospheric effects that often obscured the background of the view, focusing attention on the carefully drawn subjects while downplaying their context. His technique was similar to tonalism, but most of his paintings cannot be classed as such because they are often full of movement and activity. In his later years, Cooper increasingly painted landscapes, allegories, and historical subjects. His brushwork loosened, and some of the allegorical paintings, in particular, have an impressionist quality. We are pleased to offer this gentle lake landscape, painted shortly before the artist moved to San Francisco. (some biographical elements are courtesy of Mark Sublette, Medicine Man Gallery)

Creator:
Astley David Middleton Cooper (1856 - 1924, American)
Creation Year:
1879
Dimensions:
Height: 14.25 in (36.2 cm)Width: 17.25 in (43.82 cm)Depth: 0.13 in (3.31 mm)
Medium:
Canvas,Masonite,Oil
Movement & Style:
Romantic
Period:
1870-1879
Condition:
canvas cut down and laid down on board, minor restoration; frame: minor marks; shows well.
Gallery Location:
Santa Cruz, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU3449454422

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