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Item Ships From: New York City
Luxi Liu Impressionist Original Oil On Canvas "Hometown Beauty IV"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Hometown Beauty IV
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 25 x 31 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$845 Sale Price
35% Off
JiWei Chen Impressionist Original Oil Painting "Fishing Boat"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Fishing Boat
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 7.5 x 11.5 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$650 Sale Price
35% Off
Caupolicán, Cubist Oil Painting on Canvas by Inimá de Paula
Located in Long Island City, NY
Inima de Paula, Brazilian (1918 - 1999) - Caupolican, Year: 1990, Medium: Oil on canvas, signed lower right, titled, signed and dated on verso, Size: 39.5 x 31.5 in. (100.33 x 8...
Category
1990s Cubist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Impressionist Maui Coastal Hawaiian Beach Scene Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare Hawaiian landscape of coastal Maui. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 20"H x 24"L.
Category
1940s Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Pekingese Dog Portrait Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American dog portrait oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring 8 by 10 inches overall and 6.5 by 9 painting alone.
Category
1930s Abstract New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$620 Sale Price
20% Off
"Lakeside Picnic Scene with Figures" Impressionist Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
Located in New York, NY
A stunning oil painting depicting figures by the Lakeside in the 20th Century. Carol Hopkins was known for her charming intimate figurative scenes portraying life in the North East. ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique French Riviera Modernist Mediterranean Seascape Signed Boat Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage signed modernist seascape painting by Gabriel Godard (Born 1933).
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Housed in a wide giltwood frame. Thick impasto and wonderful colors. I...
Category
1960s Modern New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Guoqiang Ning Impressionist Original Oil Painting "Mountains - Light"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Mountains - Light
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 15.5 x 20 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This paint...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Signed Modernist Abstract Coastal Harbor Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very nicely painted American modernist harbor oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 16H by 20L.
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
"Colossi of Memnon, Egypt" Rare Orientalist Landscape Painting by F.A. Bridgman
By Frederick Arthur Bridgman
Located in Queens, NY
"Colossi of Memnon, Egypt" Rare Orientalist Landscape Painting by Frederick Arthur Bridgman (American, 1847-1928)
A wonderful oil on canvas painting by American orientalist painter Frederick Arthur Bridgman depicting The Colossi of Memnon - two large stone statues...
Category
19th Century New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
ZhiQin Yu Impressionist Original Oil Painting "Lost Beauty - Lotus"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Lost Beauty - Lotus
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 23.75 x 19.5 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Fall Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract landscape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed in a great gold leaf molding. Impressive piece in person!
Category
1960s Abstract New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
PanPan Wei Floral Original Oil Painting "Blooming Red Poppy"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Blooming Red Poppy
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 15 x 20 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage 1957 Modernist Boat Dock Signed Precisionist Large Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist harbor view. Oil on board, circa 1957.
Signed. Displayed in a period frame. Image size, 24"L x 20"H.
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Snowy River Landscape, Impressionist Painting by Jean-Jacques Berne-Bellecour
By Jean-Jacques Berne-Bellecour
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jean-Jacques Berne-Bellecour, French (1874 - 1939)
Title: Untitled - Snowy River Landscape
Year: circa 1920
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l.
Size: 21.5 in. x 29 in. (54.61 ...
Category
1920s Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"On the Upper Mississippi" Delle Miller, Missouri Regionalist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Delle Miller
On the Upper Mississippi, circa 1926
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
26 1/8 x 29 1/8 inches
By 1909, Miller was an instructor at the Kansas...
Category
1920s American Modern New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Isla Azul 3
Located in New York, NY
Isla Azul 3
59 x 35 inch
Oil on Canvas
Category
2010s New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Impressionist New England Coastal Beach Stroll Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist coastal painting by Clarence Braley (1854 - 1927). Oil on canvas, circa 1900. Signed. Displayed in a period modernist ...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$10,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Jianchuan Qin Contemporary Original Oil Painting "Only Wish To Stay"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Only Wish To Stay
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 23 x 31 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This paintin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Seascape Crashing Waves Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape oil painting by J. Redding Kelly (1870 - 1939). Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring 18 by 21 inches overall and 12 by 16 painting alone.
Category
1890s Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
Landscape with Cottage, Framed Impressionist Oil Painting by Edward Heaton
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Edward Heaton, American (1824 - )
Title: Landscape with Cottage
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower right
Size: 12 x 16 in. (30.48 x 40.64 cm)
Fr...
Category
Mid-19th Century Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist WPA Social Realist Carnival Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist carnival scene oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Image size, 14H by 18L.
Category
1930s Modern New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$620 Sale Price
20% Off
Zhijun Jiang Waterscape Original Oil On Canvas "Waves Crashing"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Waves Crashing
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 21 x 31 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This painting i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Sunset Landscape by Herman Hyneman, 19th Century
By Herman Hyneman
Located in New York, NY
Herman N. Hyneman (American, 1849-1907)
Untitled (Sunset Landscape), 19th Century
Oil on canvas
20 1/4 x 26 in.
Signed lower right: H. N. Hyneman
Herman N. Hyneman was a noted Ameri...
Category
19th Century American Realist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Beach Scene with Figures" Impressionistic Oil Painting in Zandvoort Holland
Located in New York, NY
A wonderfully rich beach scene done in Zandvoort Holland in the Mid-20th Century depicting figures in the sand. Some figures are by the water as kids play in the distance. The impres...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Rainy Day" Emile Gruppe, Cape Ann, Rockport, Gloucester, Impressionist
By Emile Gruppe
Located in New York, NY
Emile Gruppe
Rainy Day
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
16 x 16 inches
Emile Gruppe was an unusually prolific artist. He was at his easel almost every day and created thousands of pa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed Vintage American School Modernist Winter Cubist Framed Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted bright and brilliant cubist winter landscape. Framed nicely and signed lower right. Excellent mid century example.
Category
1960s Cubist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American School Mid Century Modern Abstract Vibrant Framed Oil Painting
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract oil painting by Louis Wolchonok (1898 - 1973). Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 24H by 18L.
Category
1940s Abstract New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique European School Modernist Village Landscape Original Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique European modernist landscape painting. Oil on board, circa 1930. Unsigned. Image size, 20.5L x 17.5H. Housed in a period giltwood frame.
Category
1930s Modern New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Beautiful Garden"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Beautiful Garden
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 22 x 18 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Year: 2011
Artist:...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist New England Beach Bathers Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century impressionist bather scene by John Edward Costigan (1888 - 1972). Oil on board. Framed. Signed verso.
Category
1940s Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lac Trouser, Blue, Abstract, Landscape, painting, Mixed Media, diptych, Pink
By Marie Danielle Leblanc
Located in Riverdale, NY
Lac Trouser is a colorful mixed media painting. It is oil and pigment on Wood Panel with a high gloss finish. This diptych is 20x40. It is filled with beautiful pinks, white and b...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Resin, Varnish, Oil, Wood Panel, Pigment
Dajun Zhang Landscape Original Oil "Journey West to Tibet Series - Hoh Xil"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Journey West to Tibet Series ▪ Hoh Xil
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 12 x 24 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent con...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,610 Sale Price
30% Off
Colorful Abstract Waterfall by Johanna Secor
Located in New York, NY
Johanna Secor (American, 1920-1998)
Waterfall, Late 20th Century
Oil on canvas
Framed: 35 3/8 x 29 1/8 x 1 7/8 in.
Signed and inscribed verso: Johanna Secor "Waterfall"
“Mrs. Seco...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cherish, Beautiful oil and gold leaf painting of pink floral cherry blossoms
By Anastasia Gklava
Located in Dallas, TX
"Cherish" is a beautiful oil painting of pink cherry blossoms. The texture and color covers the entire 39x39 inch canvas in a stunning and saturated composition. The artist uses oil ...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Vintage American School Modernist Old Lyme Connecticut New England Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist New England barn oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1960. Signed illegibly. Image size, 24L x 20H. Framed in a period f...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Modernist Nature Study Lake Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed illegibly lower left. Image size, 36L x 24H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category
1940s Modern New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Gouache
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
"Pont Neuf, Seine, Paris, France" Carle Blenner, American Impressionism
By Carle John Blenner
Located in New York, NY
Carle John Blenner (1862 - 1952)
Pont Neuf, Seine, Paris, France, 1887
Oil on canvas
15 x 22 inches
Signed and dated lower right; titled lower left
...
Category
1880s American Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Old House, New Canaan
By Robert Emmett Owen
Located in New York, NY
Robert Emmett Owen, best known for his New England landscapes featuring old farmhouses, winding roads, and covered bridges, began his career contributing pen-and-ink drawings to Life...
Category
20th Century New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American Modernist Abstract Landscape Morris Shulman Signed Oil Painting
By Morris M. Shulman
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape abstract painting. Oil on board, circa 1952. Signed. Image size, 21.5"L x 7.5"H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category
1950s Abstract New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Sunset Seascape Signed Framed Rolling Waves Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist seascape sunset oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 28 by 32 inches overall, and 20 by 24 painting alone.. In excellent origina...
Category
1960s Modern New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Night Rambler, Navy blue forest scene, oil and gold leaf painting with fox
By Anastasia Gklava
Located in Dallas, TX
"The Night Rambler" is a beautiful navy blue oil and gold leaf painting of a textured forest scene with an adorable fox hiding in the bottom right side of the painting. The artist us...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Large Antique American Impressionist Tropical Nassau Bahamas Seascape Sailboat
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape oil painting by Ralph Von Lehmden (Born 1908). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 15 by 22 inches overall and 13 by 20 painting alone.
Category
1930s Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Panpan Wei Impressionist Original Oil On Canvas "Lotus Pond II"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Lotus Pond II
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 19 x 23 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This paint...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$910 Sale Price
30% Off
Japanese Black and White Winter Forest Landscape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3062a Black
White Forest, contemporary oil on wood board displayed in a black and white wood frame, signed lower left by M.Mirabella .Image size 19.5 H x 19.5 W
Category
1980s New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$250 Sale Price
52% Off
Nicely Framed Detailed American School Antique Beach Scene Original NY Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist beach scene painting. Framed. Watercolor and gouache on paper. Signed. Image size, 12H by 16L.
Category
1920s Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
The Great Valley, Acrylic Painting by Jerry Schurr
By Jerry Schurr
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jerry Schurr, American (1940 - )
Title: Great Valley
Year: 1987
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 43 in. x 88 in. (109.22 cm ...
Category
1980s Contemporary New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
1893 American Tonalist Impressionist Moonlit Landscape
By Charles Morris Young
Located in New York, NY
Early American Impressionist Moonlit landscape with river by Charles Morris Young (1869-1964). Oil on canvas, dated 1894. Signed lower right. Disp...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"THIN ICE", Abstract Painting, Diptych, Teal, Violet, Flower, Crystalline Frost
By Jeffrey Kurland
Located in Toronto, Ontario
The large abstract painting "THIN ICE" by Jeffrey Kurland is a diptych – acrylic paint on two canvases each measuring 48" tall by 52" wide – together measuring 96" tall by 52" wide. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"View of New York Harbor, Staten Island Ferry, " Gustave Wolff, Impressionism
By Gustave Wolff
Located in New York, NY
Gustav (Gustave) Wolff (1863 - 1935)
View of New York Harbor from the Staten Island Ferry
Oil on canvas
16 x 12 inches
Signed lower right
In the Autumn of 1913, the German Associati...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"California Mountains, " Orrin White, Impressionism, Southwest Desert Landscape
By Orrin A. White
Located in New York, NY
Orrin White
California Mountain Landscape
Signed lower right
Oil on board
8 x 10 inches
A nationally known landscape painter, who spent the prime of his career in California, Orrin White was born in Hanover, Illinois. He was artistically inclined at an early age but did not pursue an art career until he was in his thirties. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from Notre Dame University...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Gaff Yacht on the Atlantic" American Oval Realist Oil Painting Miniature Detail
By Georgina Nemethy
Located in New York, NY
A Fine depiction of an Gaff Yachts in the open ocean. For this wonderful depiction of 19th Century sailing ships, Nemethy uses a Fine technique which depicts the figures on the boat ...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Ft Lauderdale Beach Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist beach scene oil painting by Carl W. Brandien (1886 - 1965). Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 9H by 12L.
Category
1950s Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Montmartre Street Scene, Paris, France" Thomas Pradzynski, Architecture
By Thomas Pradzynski
Located in New York, NY
Thomas Pradzynski (1951 - 2007)
Montmartre Street Scene, Paris, France
Oil on canvas
16 x 32 inches
Signed lower right
At the age of 26 Thomas Prad...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$9,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Modernist Geometric Abstract Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted American school abstract geometric oil painting in a period frame. Signed lower right "Flemming" but without an artist determined.
Category
1960s Abstract New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
"Winter Solitude" Buckingham PA, Bucks County Snow Scene Landscape Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
Impressionist winter pastoral scene of a quaint snow covered home by theBuckingham, Bucks County, PA. Willett has portrayed this charming scene in a most intimate, yet energetic way,...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Building the Allegheny Railroad, Pennsylvania" Alfred Wall, Scalp Level School
Located in New York, NY
Alfred S. Wall (American, 1825-1896)
Untitled (Building the Railroad), 1859
Oil on canvas
14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches
Signed and dated lower left
For Christmas, 2008, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette featured Alfred Wall's painting, Old Saw Mill from the collection of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, PA. It was painted in 1851 in the town of Lilly, Pennsylvania in the Allegheny Mountains. The newspaper description stated that "though the saw mill is long gone, it still conveys all the warmth and coziness of this time of year. The article, written by Patricia Lowry, continued:
At first glance, Alfred S. Wall's painting of a saw mill in snowy woods triggers nostalgia for the coziness of a log cabin, the smell of a wood-burning fire and the warming of chilled hands and feet beside it.
But as sentimental as it seems on the surface, Mr. Wall's painting has a deeper and unexpected context.
This is more than a painting about sled-riding children and early industry planted in the middle of virgin forest. Intended or not, this is a painting about conquering the great divide of the Allegheny Mountains.
For the third consecutive year, the Post-Gazette features a winter-scene painting on the cover of the Christmas Day newspaper. This year's painting, Old Saw Mill, was selected by co-publisher and editor-in-chief John Robinson Block and executive editor David Shribman during a visit to the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg.
Mr. Wall, listed as a portrait painter in the 1850 census, was about 26 when he painted Old Saw Mill in 1851. The self-taught artist was born in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, to William and Lucy Wall, who'd emigrated from England around 1820. An artistic sensibility ran in the family: William was a sculptor who carved ornate tombstones here; Alfred's children, A. Bryan and Bessie, were landscape painters, as was Alfred's older brother, William Coventry Wall. For more than a century the Walls formed a prominent art dynasty in Pittsburgh, and Alfred, eventually a partner in the city's most prestigious art gallery, was well known as a painter, dealer and restorer.
In Old Saw Mill, two wood cutters, each holding an axe, meet outside the mill; one points in the direction of the forest. On the other side of the stream, one child pulls another down the hillside on a sled. Just behind the hill's slope, the roof of a building appears, perhaps the home of the sawyer. The luminous, late afternoon light comes from the northwest, casting lengthening shadows on the snow under a darkening sky.
The saw mill in "Old Saw Mill" likely would have been impossible to track down had Mr. Wall, presumably, not written on the back of the painting: "old saw mill near Jct. 4, Portage RR, Pa."
"There was no Junction 4," said Mike Garcia, park ranger at the Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, about 90 miles east of Pittsburgh near Gallitzen, Cambria County. "But there was an Inclined Plane No. 4 at Lilly, and there was a saw mill there."
In fact, there were at least six saw mills at Lilly over the years, said longtime resident Jim Salony, president of the Lilly-Washington Historical Society. But when he saw an image of the painting, Mr. Salony had no trouble coming up with a location. While there are no known photographs of the saw mill, he believes it stood near the intersection of Portage and Washington streets, next to Bear Rock Run.
Mr. Salony, retired academic dean at Mount Aloysius College, didn't know exactly when the mill was torn down, but it's been gone since at least the late 1800s. He was pleased to learn of the painting, even though that knowledge came too late for inclusion in a new book about Lilly, The Spirit of a Community, for which he served as primary author and editor. It runs to more than 700 pages. For a little town -- population 869 last year -- Lilly has a lot of history.
Nestled in a bowl on the western slope of the Allegheny Mountains about 3 miles south of Cresson, Lilly was first settled in 1806 by Joseph Meyer and his family, who named their 332-acre land patent Dundee. Although the Meyers had left by 1811, other settlers followed, but the community didn't flourish until the 1830s, when the Allegheny Portage Railroad began its 23-year-run through the town.
For 200 years the Alleghenies had stood as an impediment to trade and travel between Pittsburgh and the east. A canal from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh would change that and compete with New York's Erie Canal. But a portage railroad would have to be built, on which teams of horses would lead the canal boats over the mountains. Engineer Sylvester Welch began his surveying from the small settlement at Lilly. The railroad would require 10 inclined planes, some quite steep, between Hollidaysburg and Johnstown. To build it, trees had to be cut along a 120-foot-wide right-of-way for 36 miles, along which track and engine houses had to be built.
William Brown, who owned the saw mill on Bear Rock Run, built at least one of the engine houses at Inclined Plane No. 4; an 1834 contract also included fencing the dwelling lots at the head and foot of the plane. Lilly is located at what was the foot of Inclined Plane No. 4., giving the community one of its early informal names, Foot of Four.
Named in 1883 for Richard Lilly, who'd completed the grist mill there, Lilly had another early name: Hemlock, so dubbed by a Portage Railroad traveler who smelled the bark stripped from the trees at the saw mill.
Because there isn't another Allegheny Portage Railroad location like it, where a cut in the mountains opens into a bowl, Mr. Salony thinks it was Lilly that Charles Dickens wrote about following his trip from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh on the Pennsylvania Canal in late March 1842, describing what he saw after emerging from "the bottom of the cut": "It was very pretty while traveling, to look down into a valley full of light and softness, catching glimpses through the tree-tops of scattered cabins; children running to the doors; dogs bursting out to bark, who we could see without hearing; terrified pigs scampering homeward; families sitting out in their rude gardens; cows gazing upward with a stupid indifference; men in their shirt-sleeves looking on at their unfinished houses, planning out to-morrow's work; and we riding onward, high above them, like a whirlwind."
To get to Lilly, Mr. Wall may have taken the Pennsylvania Canal from his home in Allegheny City, now the North Side. He'd married young, at 21, to Sarah Carr in 1846, the same year he began his career as an artist. By 1880 they were living in a brick townhouse at 104 (later 814) Arch St., now demolished.
Across the river in Pittsburgh he shared a studio at 67 Fourth Ave. with his brother William; they later moved to Burke's Building, today the city's oldest office building at 209-211 Fourth. But often they worked outdoors, sometimes as part of the colony of artists that grew up around painter George Hetzel beginning in the late 1860s at Scalp Level...
Category
1850s Hudson River School New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
ShaoHua Nong Surrealist Original Oil On Canvas "Light And Shade"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Light And Shade
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 12 x 16 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This painting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$650 Sale Price
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UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
"Union Square"
24 x 36 inches
Oil on canvas, c.1940s
S...
Category
1940s American Realist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tao Yu Impressionist Original Oil On Canvas "Shan Yin Dao Shang V"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Shan Yin Dao Shang V
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 12 x 15.5 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist New York City - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$780 Sale Price
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