Arthur Wesley Dow

Brittany Field with Figure

1889

Woman in a Field (title unknown) Oil on canvas, 1894 Signed and dated 1894, lower right corner Unframed A major exhibition work by this American Expatriate painter. Further research ...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork. Signed lower right. Complemented by a hand carved and gilt frame. William L. Lathrop (1859-1938) Deemed “Father of the New Hope Art Colony”, William Langson Lathrop was born in Warren, Illinois. He was largely self-taught, having only studied briefly with William Merritt Chase in 1887, at the Art Students League. Lathrop first moved east in the early 1880s, and took a job at the Photoengraving Company in New York City. While there, he befriended a fellow employee, Henry B. Snell. The two men became lifelong friends and ultimately, both would be considered central figures among the New Hope Art Colony. Lathrop's early years as an artist were ones of continuing struggle. His efforts to break through in the New York art scene seemed futile, so he scraped enough money together to travel to Europe with Henry Snell in 1888. There he met and married an English girl, Annie Burt. Upon returning to New York, he tried his hand at etching, making tools from old saw blades...

Painter, sculptor and illustrator William Sergeant Kendall was born in 1869 in the Bronx, New York. In 1883, he began his studies at the Brooklyn Art Guild and the following year enr...

Charles Henry Miller (American, 1842-1922) The Road and The Ridge, c. late 1800s-early 1900s Oil on canvas 24 x 32 in. Signed lower left: Cha. H. Miller Inscribed verso: "The Road and The Ridge" Charles Henry Miller was a noted artist and painter of landscapes from Long Island, New York. The American poet Bayard Taylor called him, "The artistic discoverer of the little continent of Long Island." Miller was educated at Mount Washington Collegiate Institute, and graduated in medicine at the New York Homeopathic Institute in 1864. Before his graduation, he had occasionally painted pictures, and in 1860 he exhibited The Challenge Accepted at the National Academy of Design, in New York City. He lived in Queens at the summer estate, Queenslawn, originally purchased by his parents. He went abroad in 1864 and again in 1867, and was a pupil in the Bavarian Royal Academy at Munich under the instruction of Adolf Lier...

Provenance The artist; By descent in the family to the artist's great-grandaughter, until 2023 Born on a small island near Martha's Vineyard, R. Swain Gifford and his family moved t...

Bretonne sous un Arbre by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO (1878 - 1952) Oil on board 33 x 41 cm (13 x 16 ⅛ inches) Signed and dated lower right, Ludovic Rodo 1903 Provenance Private Collecti...

“Summer in the Pasture (Farmer’s Wife with Cow)” (Sommertag auf der Weide (Bäuerin mit Kuh)) Paul Junghanns (German, 1876-1958) Oil on Canvas Signed verso 36 ¼ x 28 inches (43 ¾ x 35...

Robert Swain Gifford (1840–1905) Landscape with Haystacks Oil on canvas, 14 1/8 x 24 inches (35.9 x 61 cm) Estate stamp lower left: RSwain Gifford Provenance The artist; By descent in the family to the artist's great-grandaughter, until 2023 Born on a small island near Martha's Vineyard, R. Swain Gifford and his family moved to the New Bedford, Massachusetts, area when he was two years old. The Dutch marine painter Albert Van Beest arrived in New Bedford in 1854, providing the teenage Gifford with the opportunity of study; he collaborated with Van Beest on a number of ship pictures...

William Henry Innes (1905-1999) Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...

Work on canvas Molded frame Dimensions with frame 82 x 109.5 x 7 cm This work captures the vibrant scene of a harvest field, where a central woman forcefully lifts sheaves of wheat,...