Astley David Middleton Cooper

Indian Encampment by the River, American Frontier Art

1890

Frank Proschwitzry Freyburg (English, 1862 - 1932) Signed: Freyburg (Lower, Right) " English Countryside " Oil on Canvas 28" x 36" Housed in a 3 1/8" Frame with a 3/4" Linen Li...

Mathias Alten (German/American 1871-1938) Signed: M. Alten (Lower, Right) " Autumn Landscape with a Stream ", c. 1923 Oil on Canvas Laid on Board 12" x 16" Housed in a 2 1/2" Ca...

George Raab (American, 1866 - 1943) Signed: G. Raab 1912 (Lower, Right) " Doctor Lake ", 1912 Oil on Canvas 18" x 22" Housed in a 3" Period Carved Frame in the style of Newcomb ...

William Hubacek (American, 1871-1958) Signed: " W. M. Hubacek '83 " " San Francisco Bay near the Golden Gate ", 1893 Oil on Canvas 16 1/4" x 22" Housed in a 19th-century 3.5" Silver Gilt Ornamented Frame Outside Frame Size: 19 3/4" x 25 1/2" The item was lined and cleaned. The canvas appears to be in very good condition with bright colors. Hubacek was born in Chicago, moving with his family to San Francisco while still a child. His initial studies in art we're at the Mark Hopkins...

River landscape encampment

Hudson River School artist Charles Wilson Knapp's (1823-1900) "Fisherman by a Brook" is oil on canvas and measures 24 x 20 inches. The work is signed by Knapp at the lower left. The ...

Summer Fishing Scene by Hudson River School artist John Carleton Wiggins (1848-1932) is oil on canvas and measures 12 x 20 inches. The painting is signed by Wiggins at the lower left...

"Hudson Highlands," by Hudson River School painter Lockwood DeForest (American, 1850-1932) is oil on artists card-stock and measures 9.5 x 14 inches. The work is framed in an elegant, period appropriate frame, and ready to hang. Lockwood de Forest was born in New York in 1850 to a prominent family. He grew up in Greenwich Village and on Long Island at the family summer estate in Cold Spring Harbor. As was customary for a cultivated family in the Gilded Age, the de Forests made frequent trips abroad. Excursions to the great museums, which were prominent on the de Forests agenda, deepened the young Lockwood's familiarity with European painting and sculpture. Though he had begun drawing and painting somewhat earlier, it was during a visit to Rome in 1868 that nineteen-year-old de Forest first began to study art seriously, taking painting lessons from the Italian landscapist Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (1844–1905). More importantly, on the same trip, Lockwood met one of America’s most celebrated painters, (and his maternal great- uncle by marriage) Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), who quickly became his mentor. DeForest accompanied Church on sketching trips around Italy and continued this practice when they both returned to America in 1869. Early on in his career, de Forest made a habit of recording the date and often the place of his oil sketches, as to create a visual diary of his travels. Lockwood’s profession as a landscape painter can be primarily attributed to Frederic E. Church and his belief in the young artist’s talent. De Forest often visited Church in the Hudson River community of Catskill where, in addition to sketching trips and afternoons of painting, he assisted with the architectural drawings and planning of Olana. In 1872, de Forest took a studio at the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York. During these formative years de Forest counted among his friend’s artists such as Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–80), George Henry Yewell (1830–1923), John Frederick Kensett (1816–72), Jervis McEntee (1828–91), and Walter Launt Palmer (1854–1932). Over the next decade de Forest experienced success as a painter. He exhibited for the first time at the National Academy of Design in 1872, and made two more painting trips abroad, in 1875–76 and 1877–78, traveling to the major continental capitals but also the Middle East and North Africa. His trip to the Middle East and the library at Church’s home, Olana, established his interest in design during his mid-twenties. From about 1878 to 1902, landscape painting was overshadowed by his activities and preoccupation with East Indian architecture and décor, a style that became quite fashionable in late nineteenth century America. From 1879-1883, de Forest founded Associated Artists along with Louis Comfort Tiffany, Candace Wheeler...