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Henry Augustus Ferguson
"Laurel Lake near Stockbridge, Massachusetts" Berkshires, Hudson River School
circa 1870s

Price:$4,200

$6,000List Price

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Henry Augustus Ferguson Laurel Lake near Stockbridge, Massachusetts, circa 1870s Signed and titled on the reverse Oil on canvas 16 x 26 inches Provenance Gallery of Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, New York Douglas Dean, Holyoke, Massachusetts Estate of the above Exhibited New York, National Academy of Design, 73rd Annual Exhibition, March 28 - May 14, 1898, no. 135. New York, Gallery of Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, Paintings by Henry A. Ferguson, October 20 - November 10, 1936, no. 7, illustrated. Henry Augustus Ferguson attended an academy in Glens Falls and/or Trinity College before going to Albany to study art with Homer Dodge Martin and George Boughton. George Smillie remembered first meeting Ferguson "in New York in the early years of the Civil War," in the studio of James M. Hart, another of the group of artists who came from Albany. Doubtless, Ferguson had come to the city to further his training and ambitions as a landscape painter. However, it seems likely he soon returned to the area of Glens Falls and Albany, as his work of the first half of the 1860s, paintings of New York and New England scenery, are only recorded as being shown in exhibitions held in Albany, Troy, and Utica, New York. Ferguson made his debut in an Academy annual exhibition in 1867 with View from Green Mountain--Mt. Desert, and Near Lake Sanford--Adirondack, the latter being lent by its owner, indicating Ferguson had already attained some success. He did not show in an annual exhibition again until 1870, when he was represented by a scene of Keene Valley in the Adirondacks. Some time in that year or early in 1871, Ferguson made the move which would distinguish his career from the generality of third-generation Hudson River School landscapist by following the example of Frederic Church in seeking his subject matter in South America. From the base of Santiago, Chile, he passed three years traveling and painting around western South America, favoring Peru. It was reported that his paintings found buyers in South America. He apparently returned to New York just at the end of 1873; there he set up a studio at 8 Astor Place, where he displayed his finished paintings of the spectacular South American scenery, and began to produce more works from the trove of sketches he had amassed during his travels. He developed paintings in watercolor as well as oil, as several of his South American scenes were included in the 1874 annual exhibition of the American Society of Painters in Water Colors. Ferguson's South American views were well received, and found buyers, however, he apparently did not stay in the city--or the country--for long. Nothing is heard of Ferguson from early 1874 until his work reappears in the Academy annual exhibition of 1879. On that occasion he showed three paintings: Door of a Mosque, Cairo; Bab el Suweylah; and Dogana and Mare, Venice, giving a clear idea of where he had passed the previous five years. Ferguson was represent in every Academy annual from 1879 through the year of his death, excepting only 1883 and 1892. At first his contributions were almost entirely drawn from his studies made in South America, Egypt, and Venice. In 1884 Mexico was added to his repertoire of subjects (suggesting where he may have been in 1883); he showed a Roman scene in 1888, and a view of Switzerland's Jungfrau in 1889. By the mid-1890s, however, Ferguson's shows only domestic landscapes of favorite artists' locales in New Jersey, New York State, and New England, such as Franconia Notch, New Hampshire and Blue Mountain Lake in the Adirondacks. In the twentieth century scenes from Sheffield and Ashfield, Massachusetts are prominent in the titles of his paintings. His exotic Egyptian subjects occasionally reappear, but these may have been earlier works brought out again late in his career. In these later years Ferguson also gained a reputation for being a fine art restorer. This portrait of Ferguson was used as a frontispiece in the 1917 Anderson Gallery sale of Ferguson's paintings, captioned as the work of Oliver Lay, however the 1911 catalogue of the Academy collection lists the portrait as the work of Lazarus.

Creator:
Henry Augustus Ferguson (1842 - 1911, American)
Creation Year:
circa 1870s
Dimensions:
Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)
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Unique workPrice: $6,000
Medium:
Oil,Canvas
Movement Style:
Hudson River School
Period:
1860-1869
Condition:
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1841216992842

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