An American Impressionist, Alexander Bower was born in New York, studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and was living with his wife in Cliff Island, Maine, by 1914. Despite his urban upbringing, the coast and the sea fascinated Bower. A large portion of his paintings are seascapes, particularly scenes depicting the coast of Cape Elizabeth and Cliff Island, Maine. Bower was a member of the Salmagundi Club, the Philadelphia Watercolor Club and the Boston Society of Watercolor Painters, as well as being an associate member of the National Academy of Design. He exhibited at the Carnegie Institute, the National Academy of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Bower’s works are in the collection of the Springfield Art Museum, the Butler Art Institute, the Sweat Memorial Art Museum, the Portland Museum of Art and the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine. Bower was not only a painter but also was the Director of the Sweat Memorial Art Museum and Director of the School of Fine and Applied Art (both in Portland, Maine), a trustee at Westbrook College in Portland, Maine and an art instructor at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
"Gloucester Boats" Frederick Mulhaupt, Impressionist Gloucester Scene
Located in New York, NY
Frederick John Mulhaupt Gloucester Boats Signed lower left Oil on board 12 x 16 inches Born in Rock Port, Missouri, in 1871, Mulhaupt studied...
Oil, Board
"Golden Harbor, Gloucester" Lillian Mathilde Genth, Golden Hour, Reflections
Located in New York, NY
Lillian Mathilde Genth Golden Harbor, Gloucester, circa 1910 Signed lower right, titled in graphite on verso Oil on canvas 20 x 25 inches Born in Philadelphia, Lillian Mathilde Gen...
Canvas, Oil
"Low Tide, " Frederic Grant, Boats at the Dock, Chicago Artist
By Frederick Milton Grant
Located in New York, NY
Frederic Milton Grant (1886 - 1959) Low Tide, 1916 Oil on canvas 16 1/4 x 18 1/8 inches Signed and dated lower right Housed in a Stanford White Newcomb-Macklin frame. Exhibitied: Ar...
Canvas, Oil
"Moonlight Harbor" Reynolds Beal, Early 20th Century, Impressionist Nocturne
By Reynolds Beal
Located in New York, NY
Reynolds Beal Moonlight Harbor, 1906 Estate stamp on the reverse Oil on artist board 6 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches Provenance The artist Estate of the artist Royal Galleries, New Jersey, 196...
Oil, Board
"Fisherman of Yankee Cove, " Harry Leith-Ross, Boat Landscape
By Harry Leith-Ross
Located in New York, NY
Harry Leith-Ross (1886 - 1973) Fisherman of Yankee Cove Oil on canvasboard 8 1/8 x 10 1/2 inches Signed lower left; also with artist, title, and number '39' on label verso Provenance: Private Collection, Pennsylvania Landscape painter Harry Leith-Ross was born in Mauritius in 1886, a British possession in the Indian Ocean. He came to America as a seventeen year old. Before beginning, some ten years later in 1914, his studies at the Art Students League Summer School in Woodstock, New York at the relatively late age of twenty-eight, Leith-Ross had worked as a commercial artist. He studied with John F. Carlson and Birge Harrison at the League Summer School, and later with C. Y. Turner at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He then went to Paris, studying with Jean Paul Laurens at the Academie Julien and in England with Stanhope Forbes. Long associated with the Bucks County artists' colony in New Hope, Pennsylvania, Leith-Ross may have first gone there in 1912. It is definitely known that he visited the area in 1916 at the invitation of a student he had met when both attended the Art Students League Summer School in Woodstock, John Fulton Folinsbee. Birge Harrison, his former instructor at the League, whom he met again, was also there in New Hope during the winters from 1914 to 1916. The third and last generation of the New Hope colony would be comprised of artists like Leith-Ross, Folinsbee and Kenneth R. Nunamaker. It is somewhat ironic that Leith-Ross, so long affiliated with the New Hope School of American Impressionism...
Oil, Board
"Stone Wharf, Brittany" Jane Peterson, American Impressionist, Boats in Canal
By Jane Peterson
Located in New York, NY
Jane Peterson Stone Wharf, Brittany, circa 1910 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 18 x 24 inches Provenance Private Collection, New York Born Jennie Christine in Elgin, Illinois, s...
Canvas, Oil
"Harbor Reflections, Gloucester"
By Henry Bayley Snell
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork. Signed lower right. Complemented by a hand carved and gilt frame. Henry Bayley Snell (1858 - 1943) Henry Bayley Snell was born in Richmond, England, on September 29, 1858 and immigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen. He studied at the Art Students League in New York while working for an etching and engraving company where he began a lifelong friendship with fellow artists, William Langson Lathrop. While in New York Snell met another artist, named Florence Francis, also of English descent, whom he would eventually marry in 1888. It is believed that they first came to Bucks County in 1898 to visit the Lathrops at Phillips Mill. Snell was a beloved teacher at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women from 1899 to 1943, and often took his art classes abroad during the summer. He would frequently visit his native England, spending time at the art colony of St. Ives on the coast of Cornwall. Snell would summer in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Boothbay Harbor, Maine, where he also held painting classes. Almost all the women who exhibited with “The Philadelphia Ten” had studied with Snell either in Philadelphia or New England. Snell also taught on Saturdays at the Grand Central Galleries in New York City. The Snells made many trips to New Hope before settling there permanently in 1925. They lived on the top floor of the Solebury National Bank Building where Henry also maintained a studio. This was located at the foot of the New Hope-Lambertville Bridge and many of Snell’s New Hope scenes were painted from this location. In 1943, Snell passed away in New Hope at the age of eighty-four. Henry Snell earned an international reputation as an artist for his paintings of Cornwall...
Canvas, Oil
Gloucester Boats
By Florence Prince Ewing
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
In Gloucester Boats, Florence Prince Ewing captures the character and rhythm of New England’s working waterfront. The composition centers on two fishing vessels tied to a weathered d...
Canvas, Oil
Harbor Scene
By Hayley Lever
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist oil marine harbor scene painting by Australian American artist Hayley Lever (1876-1958). Lever was born in Adelaide, Australia and studied first at the Adelaide...
Oil, Board
Harbor Reflections, Gloucester, Sailing Ships
By Arthur N. Davis
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Raised in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Arthur Davis grew up when fishing and cargo vessels were still sailing in and out of Gloucester's busy harbor. At an early age, he spent time down on the docks where he built model sail boats and completed his first paintings before having any formal training. Davis studied under Emile Gruppe and Gordon Grant and was one of Grant's prize pupils. Davis also painted on the waterfront with Frederick Mulhaupt, Aldro Hibbard, Frederick Stoddard...
Canvas, Oil, Board
Bright Impressionist Marine Painting of Boats titled "Harbor Companions"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Harbor Companions by Raymond Jerome Jones, painted around 1910, is an Impressionist depiction of two fishing boats resting side by side on calm water. Jones uses loose, confident bru...
Canvas, Oil
Harborfront, American Impressionist, 20th Century, Wooden Sailing Ships at Dock
Located in Wiscasset, ME
In "Harborfront" the artist uses colorful, impressionist brushstrokes to bring a working waterfront to life.
Canvas, Oil, Board
