Ambrose Andrews

A Summer Gathering

Henry Walcott Boss (American, 1820-1916) Woodland Tranquility Oil on canvas, signed “Boss” lower right & dated 1896 In Woodland Tranquility, Henry Walcott Boss offers a masterfully ...

Signed lower right and dated 1950. Edward J. Burns’ Harvesting, Cedar Rapids, Iowa captures the essence of rural American labor with striking realism and heartfelt reverence. Painte...

Beautiful example of the Hudson River School romantic bucolic New York autumn landscape with cows foraging. Illegible artist signature on stretcher bar (See enhanced images). Condition: very good; professionally cleaned and minor restoration upper right hand corner where paint was missing. Unframed. Image size: 14"H x 24"W x .75"D Hudson River School was an informal association was America's first so-called school of painting and the dominant landscape style until the Civil War. The name derives from a group of 19th-century landscape painters working in New York state. With realistic composition, they depicted romantic views of unsettled areas of the Hudson River Valley especially lakes, rocky gorges, and forests in the Catskill Mountains. About a fourth of these artists utilized luminism or effects with special lighting techniques to convey lofty emotions through contrasts of light and dark. Included in this Hudson River luminist category were Washington Allston, Albert Bierstadt, William Hart, and Frederic Edwin Church...

Work on canvas Frame in wood and plaster painted gold 47.5 x 72 x 3.5 cm This work of art is an idyllic depiction of the countryside, characterized by a pastoral scene where nature...