Nina Hill

"Phlox" Nina Hill, Pastel Colors, Pink Impressionist Flowers Still Life

circa 1925

Anne Ramsdell Congdon Chrysanthemums, 1900 Signed and dated lower right Watercolor on paper 26 x 19 inch Provenance Matthew O'Connell, Gloucester, Massachusetts Anne Ramsdell Congdon studied art at a young age in Worcester. Originally a watercolorist, she attended the Académie de Lécluse in Paris in 1891, and later with Rhoda Holmes Nichols (1854–1938), an assistant to William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), at a summer extension to Chase’s Shinnecock School of Art in Oguinquit, Maine. She also studied with Boston and Oguinquit marine painter and etcher Charles H. Woodbury (1864–1940), who taught his students to “paint in verbs, not nouns,” thus advocating the quick stroke of a brush. She was active in Nashua as a watercolorist until she married a New Hampshire surgeon and Nantucket native, Dr. Charles E. Congdon, in 1902. She reportedly suspended her art career to maintain an antiques shop in Nashua, her birthplace, while raising two sons. By the mid-1920s, she was attending the summer classes in oil painting with Frank Swift Chase (1886-1958) on Nantucket, and she rapidly became a plein air painter in the bold style of her new mentor. The Boston Herald observed, “Her work is direct, facile, and without mannerisms.” She painted a series of waterfront paintings...

Eugenie M. Heller A Sunny Corner, circa 1900 Signed lower right Oil on board 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches Eugenie M. Heller (1867 - 1952) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts. Heller studied with Weir, Whistler, Amen-Jean, Grasset and Rodin. Eugenie Heller...

Leon Foster Jones Corner of my Garden, 1902 Signed and dated lower left Oil on canvas 26 x 25 inches Provenance Goldfield Galleries, Los Angeles, California Private Collection, Virginia Beach, Virginia Leon Foster Jones was a painter of landscapes, an etcher, a lithographer, and an educator. He was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, his father held the position of overseer in one of the hosiery mills in the Manchester area. In approximately 1901, he married Josephine Currier. During the initial years of their marriage, the couple resided in Concord, New Hampshire. They made Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York their permanent home in 1910, although the artist had begun working there as early as 1907. Numerous sources indicate that throughout his life, Jones gained recognition primarily for his paintings and etchings featuring historical sites across Long Island. His artistic education included four years at the Cowles Art School in Boston, Massachusetts, where he studied under Joseph Rodefer DeCamp...

Jane Peterson Cattleya Orchids, circa 1940s Signed lower right Oil on canvas 32 x 32 inches Provenance Estate of the artist Artist’s estate sale, Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1960s Priva...

Phlox and Daisies Oil on cavas 48.0 x 36.0 x 1.25, 7.0 lbs Artist's Commentary: "Even though I have always been a 'tomboy', I still like pink! I hope you enjoy it as well!" Abo...

Pink and White Petunias is a graceful and sprightly composition featuring soft pink and green tones. Hills was a master of capturing the essence of whatever flowers or vase she chos...

George H. Williams Australian, 1877-1964 Still Life with Pink and White Flowers Oil on canvas 28 by 36 ¼ in, w/ frame 36 by 44 in Signed lower right

This little plant sat on my window sil all Winter. I wondered what colour the flowers would be - I'd planted it in my Mum's old terracotta pot beca...