William Emerson

"Tonalist Landscape" Oil Painting of English Landscape with Lush Trees Clouds

Early 20th Century

An exceptional tonalist landscape of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California by Scottish American artist William Keith (1838-1911). Keith was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and came to New York with his family and apprenticed to a wood engraver. In 1859, he moved to San Francisco where he worked for an engraver and later set up his own engraving business. Studying with Samuel Marsden Brookes in 1863, he was determined to become a painter. He married artist Elizabeth Emerson and did watercolor painting with her guidance. In 1868, he became a full-time painter, and that same year was commissioned to paint scenes along the Columbia River including Mount Hood. By August 1869 he had sold enough paintings to finance an extended journey to the East Coast and Europe including Dusseldorf, Germany throughout most of 1870, studying with Albert Flamm...

Signed lower right, 'Emerson' for William C. Emerson (American, 1865-1937) and dated 1910. Original card board, verso, was additionally signed 'W. C. Emerson' and titled, 'The Dance'...

"Inundation" after Carl Fredrik Kiörrboe - Dogs During a Flood Oil on linen painting of a family of dogs in a flood by an unknown artist, unsigned, after an engraving of the painting...

An Artist sitting by the stream, Mid-19th Century Tonalist Landscape Gorgeous landscape painting by unknown artist, 1900+-. This impressive Tonalist landscape, untitled, depicts a s...

Oil on canvas laid down on fiberboard by the American artist, Albert Lorey Groll. Signed lower left and in pencil lower right. Signed verso as well. Condition is good. Circa 1910. Sa...

Gorgeous late 19th century Tonalist landscape painting of foothills and oak trees in the style of Willard Leroy Metcalf circa 1900. Inscribed "M" in circle monogram lower left corner and on frame verso. Presented in original rustic giltwood frame. Image size: 6"H x 8"W. Framed size: 8.5"H x 10.5"W. Tonalist are usually intimate works, painted with a limited palette. Tonalist paintings are softly expressive, suggestive rather than detailed, often depicting the landscape at twilight or evening, when there is an absence of contrast. Tonalist paintings could also be figurative, but in them, the figure was usually out of doors or in an interior in a low-key setting with little detail. Tonalism had its origins in the works of the French Barbizon school and in the works of American painters who were influenced by them. California Tonalism was born when the emphasis in California landscape painting passed from the grand landscapes of works like those of Thomas Hill and William Keith's early career, to more intimate views of a domesticated landscape. At the same time, the parallel Pictorialist Photography...

English Country Landscape - Watercolor on Paper Watercolor painting depicting an American country landscape by Oliver Louis Tweddle (English, B-1860). Four fishermen stand upon a br...

William Keith Western Wilderness Interior Signed lower left Watercolor on paper laid on artist board 14 1/2 x 19 inches A native of Scotland, William Keith became in the late 19th ...

Landscape Le lac Rose - Pink Lake Technique: oil, acrylic, ink on wood frame 40x40cm / 15,7x15,7inch ⭐Sustainability⭐: Wooden frame is made by the artist by ...

Road Line III Landscape - Sky scrappers, office- NYC Building avenue Painting with mirror effect Technique: oil, acrylic, and ink on old book pages on wooden frame 40x40cm ■■ 15,7x...