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Item Ships From: Tri-State Area
Impossible Series (Stone Leigh), Lowell Nesbitt - Painting
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993)
Title: Impossible Series (Stone Leigh)
Year: 1984
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 18 x 18 inches
Inscription: Signed, dated by the artist, verso
LOWEL...
Category
1980s Realist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$8,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Abstract Expressionist Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 15H x 23L.
Category
1960s Abstract Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
Friedrich‘s Window: Variation IV (Water and Mist) 1981, Ian Hornak — Painting
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Friedrich‘s Window: Variation # 4
Year: 1981
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 36 x 48 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Fischbach Gallery, New Y...
Category
1980s Photorealist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$23,600 Sale Price
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ZhenZhong Liu Landscape Original Oil Painting "Autumn Day"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Autumn Day
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 23.5 x 23.25inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Age: 2000s
Condition: Painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$550 Sale Price
50% Off
"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 Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Abstract Garden Still Life with Plants and Pumpkins), Ian Hornak
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Abstract Garden Still Life with Plants and Pumpkins)
Year: 1963
Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper
Size: 29.5 x 21 inches
Cond...
Category
1960s Impressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$2,600 Sale Price
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Vintage Signed American School Abstract Pop Art Large Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
1970s Abstract Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Framed Fauvist Large Cherry Blossom Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American fauvist landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 25H by 30L.
Category
1960s Abstract Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$6,200 Sale Price
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Farm Lane, Watercolor Painting by Ben Benn
By Ben Benn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ben Benn, Russian/American (1884 - 1983)
Title: Farm Lane
Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed l.r.
Size: 18.5 x 12 in. (46.99 x 30.48 cm)
Frame Size: ...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Antique American Hudson River School Colosseum Italian Oil Painting Landscape
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American Hudson River School artist working in Italy. Oil on canvas. Framed nicely. No signature found.
Category
1860s Hudson River School Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$10,200 Sale Price
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The Gardener’s Garden
By Theodore Wendel
Located in New York, NY
The Gardener’s Garden, ca. 1859-1932, by Theodore Wendel (1859-1932)
Oil on canvas
18 x 22 inches unframed (45.72 x 55.88 cm)
29 ⅜ x 33 ½ inches framed...
Category
19th Century American Impressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
FIELD IN BURGUNDY - French Landscape / Farm Scene / Green, Blue, Yellow
By John Evans
Located in New York, NY
John Evans (b. 1945) is a Boston-based painter of seascapes, landscapes, and botanical gardens. John Evans (received his MFA from Boston University, under the tutelage of James Weeks, David Aronson, and Philip Guston. Early in his career, he taught at both Boston University and Southern Methodist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Gondolas at the Dock, Venice, Italy" Louis Wolchonok, Boats in the Harbor Scene
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in New York, NY
Louis Wolchonok (1898 - 1973)
Gondolas at the Dock, Venice, Italy, 1928
Watercolor on paper
Sight 18 x 23 1/2 inches
Signed and dated lower right
Louis Wolchonok was an author of ar...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Country Side Town" Impressionist Landscape Scene Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
By Robert Waltsak
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful impressionist pastoral landscape with beautiful color tones throughout. Waltsak has portrayed this piece in a most intimate, yet energetic way, and has packed much feelin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Signed 1938 American Modernist Landscape Central Park Bridge Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 11H by 16L.
Category
1930s Modern Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Stone Wall, Autumn, " George Smillie, Tonalist Fall Landscape View
By George Henry Smillie
Located in New York, NY
George Henry Smillie (1840 - 1921)
Stone Wall, Autumn, 1879
Oil on canvas
9 1/2 x 15 inches
Signed and dated lower right
Provenance:
Skinner, Boston, September 19, 2014, Lot 389
The career of George Smillie (1840-1921) followed the arc of nineteenth-century U.S. landscape painting. Trained in the Hudson River School tradition, Smillie successfully adapted to changing U.S. tastes and growing interest in European trends. In the late 1800s, he moved to tonalist paintings full of brushwork and influenced by French Barbizon painting. By the end of his career, he had lightened his palette to produce works similar to those of the U.S. impressionists. Yet in all styles, he was never less than competent, and his tonalist work is among the best produced in the United States.
Like many nineteenth-century painters, George Smillie’s artistic training began with the study of printing. His father, James Smillie...
Category
1870s Tonalist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"La Seine Fumee bleu, " William Samuel Horton, France, American Impressionism
By William Samuel Horton
Located in New York, NY
William Samuel Horton (1865 - 1936)
La Seine Fumee bleu, Paris, France, circa 1909
Oil on canvasboard
17 x 21 inches
Signed lower left
A landscape painter, William Horton lived and ...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Stony Cove and Headland, " Henry Ward Ranger, Coastal Landscape, Seascape
By Henry Ward Ranger
Located in New York, NY
Henry Ward Ranger (1858 - 1915)
Stony Cove and Headland, 1910
Oil on canvas
28 x 36 inches
Signed lower right
Provenance:
McDonough Gallery, New York
William Macbeth Galleries, New York
American Art Association, The Completed Pictures Left by the Late Henry Ward Ranger, 1917, Lot 72
A key person in the establishment of the Old Lyme, Connecticut art colony in 1899, Henry Ward Ranger is regarded as the leader of the Tonalist movement in America and was a leading painter in this country in the late 19th and early 20th-centuries.
He was born in Geneseo and raised in Syracuse, New York, and in 1873, enrolled in the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University, where his father was a professor of photography and drawing. Two years later, he became a re-toucher of paintings in his father's studio and did not earn a college degree.
He also spent much time in New York City, where he was a writer of music criticism and visited galleries, where he had his first exposure to French Barbizon painting...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Woodstock Landscape" Albert Heckman, Modernist, Bright Landscape
By Albert Heckman
Located in New York, NY
Albert Heckman
Woodstock Landscape
Oil on board
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches
Albert Heckman was born in Meadville, Western Pennsylvania, 1893. He went to New York City to try his hand at ...
Category
1940s American Modern Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Mighty Ocean" Oil Painting by Montague Dawson (British, 1890-1973)
By Montague Dawson
Located in New York, NY
Montague Dawson
(British, 1890-1973)
Mighty Ocean
oil on canvas
signed Montague Dawson (lower left); titled and inscribed (on the stretcher)
24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4cm)
Provenance...
Category
20th Century Realist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Fantasy Steamer Ship" American Realist Oil Painting on Board Miniature Details
By Georgina Nemethy
Located in New York, NY
A Fine depiction of an American Steamer Ship "Fantasy" in the open ocean. For this wonderful depiction of a 19th Century sailing ship, Nemethy uses a Fine technique which depicts the...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rocks and Brook in the Catskills
Located in New York, NY
Sanford Robinson Gifford paints a small mountain stream surrounded by rocks and a canopy of green trees in his oil painting, “Rocks and Brook in the Catskills.”
Category
19th Century Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Framed Country Barn Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist farm landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 19 by 25 overall and 18 by 24 painting alone.
Category
1960s Abstract Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$300 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Large Female Abstract Expressionist Sunset Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage signed American abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 24L x 24H.
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Morning Light, Beautiful oil and gold leaf painting, pink
blue floral blossoms
By Anastasia Gklava
Located in Dallas, TX
"Morning Light" is a beautiful oil painting of pink cherry blossoms on a bright blue background. The texture and color covers the entire 39x39 inch canvas in a stunning composition. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Night Sky/Starfish
By Gigi Mills
Located in New York, NY
Gigi Mills' work is born out of her desire to simplify and reduce each moment to its essence; she achieves this by omitting mundane details from life that can often obscure genuine e...
Category
2010s Folk Art Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Nogent-le-Roi" Frank Myers Boggs, Atmospheric French Urban Landscape
By Frank Myers Boggs
Located in New York, NY
Frank Myers Boggs
Nogent-le-Roi
Signed and titled lower left
Graphite and watercolor on paper
13 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches
The Impressionist Frank Myers Boggs spent his formative and mat...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Landscape with Flowers, Impressionist Oil Painting by Leonard Rodowicz
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original oil on board painting measuring 11 x 14 inches by Polish/American artist Leonard Rodowicz, signed lower left.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman on a Park Bench, Modern Oil Painting by Sandu Liberman
By Sandu Liberman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sandu Liberman, Romanian/Israeli (1923 - 1977)
Title: Woman on a Park Bench
Year: Circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, unsigned
Size: 24 x 24 in. (60...
Category
1970s American Realist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Colonial Sand and Stone Company, New York, " Industrial WPA Scene, Precisionist
By William Sharp
Located in New York, NY
William Sharp (1900 - 1961)
Factory on the River
Oil on canvas
20 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches
Initialed lower left: WS
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Private Collection, New York
Swann Auction Galleries, American Art, June 13, 2019, Lot 178
Private Collection, New York
Colonial Sand and Stone Co., founded by Generoso Pope, was once the country’s largest sand and gravel business, providing the concrete for much of New York City’s skyline, including the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, Radio City Music Hall, airports and subways.
William Sharp was born on June 13, 1900, in Lemberg, Austria, where he attended college and the Academy for Arts and Industry. He later studied in Kraków, Poland, and in Berlin and Munich, Germany. Sharp began his career as a designer of stained-glass windows and as a painter of murals. He served in the German army during World War I. After the war he became a newspaper artist in Berlin and a well-known etcher.
Sharp drew political cartoons that were bitterly critical of the growing Nazi movement. As the influence of National Socialism intensified, he began to contribute drawings, under a pseudonym, to publications that were hostile to Hitler. After Hitler assumed power, Sharp was confronted with these drawings and told that he would be sent to a concentration camp. However, in 1934, he escaped to the United States.
His first newspaper assignment in America was making courtroom sketches for The New York Mirror...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
"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 Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
EXHIBITED American Impressionist OLD LYME Connecticut Triple Falls Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
Carl Lawless (1894-1963)
Circa 1915-1920
Signed lower left
Oil on Canvas
17x17 inches image size
21x21 inches with frame
Good Condition
A beautiful American Impressionist Painting b...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Signed Belgian Large Modernist Harvest Still Life Cityscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life and cityscape painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1911. Signed. Image size, 41L x 33H.
Category
1980s Modern Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$746 Sale Price
25% Off
Autumn
By Richard Orient
Located in Fairfield, CT
My abstract paintings are also glimpses of nature. Some of these paintings read as landscapes of a different world, a wondrous space. Others are about the more intimate aspects of na...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Maurice Legendre Watercolor of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris
By Maurice Legendre
Located in New York, NY
Maurice Legendre
Untitled (Notre Dame), Early 20th Century
Watercolor on paper
Sight: 9 x 12 in.
Framed: 14 1/4 x 18 x 1 in.
Signed lower left: M. Legendre
Maurice Legendre was a noted French impressionist and sculptor, especially known for his Parisian and London landmark scenes. The present paintings depict iconic spots in Paris, and their charming size affords the opportunity to hang them anywhere in your home.
Legendre was a pupil of Robert Couturier and Marcel Grimond...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
BLAZING Luminous SUNRISE Antique Marine Seascape Painting w/ SAILBOATs
By Edward Moran
Located in New York, NY
I’m selling this Beautiful Luminst Sunrise painting by Edward Moran (1829-1901) , a famous American Marine Hudson River painter and artist
The Luminescent Glow from the rising sun i...
Category
1870s Hudson River School Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cowboy in Snowy Landscape, Photorealist Oil Painting by Jorge Braun Tarallo
By Jorge Braun Tarallo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jorge Braun Tarallo, Uruguayan (1951 - )
Title: Cowboy in Snowy Landscape
Year: circa 1979
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l.
Size: 30 in. x 4...
Category
1970s American Realist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Locomotive Train in Snowstorm, " Guy Wiggins, American Impressionist, Winter
By Guy Wiggins
Located in New York, NY
Guy C. Wiggins (1883 - 1962)
Locomotive Train in Snowstorm, 1957
Oil on paperboard
8 x 10 inches
Signed lower left; signed and dated on the reverse
Guy Carleton Wiggins is best known for his impressionistic snow scenes of New York in 1920's. Wiggins lived in Old Lyme and Essex where he operated an art school. The Connecticut country-side was conducive to his impressionist technique of plein-air painting and broken brushwork.
Ironically, although his work includes many fine Connecticut landscapes, he is best remembered for some snow scenes of New York City. Like many other American Impressionists, Wiggins had one foot in the city and the other in the country (Vermont Hillside, South Londonderry).
Wiggins was born in Brooklyn, New York, went to England with his family as a boy, received an English grammar school education, and traveled widely abroad. He was the son of a prominent artist, Carleton Wiggins, a painter in the Barbizon style who studied with George Inness and admired Anton Mauve and Dwight Tryon...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
The Spring, American Realist Oil Painting on Board by Harry Lane
By Harry Lane
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Harry Lane, American (1891 - 1973)
Title: The Spring
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Board, signed
Size: 25 in. x 20 in. (63.5 cm x 50.8 cm)
Fr...
Category
1970s American Realist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nantucket Harbor Vista
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6097 Harbor vista oil painting in pastel colore set in a custom gilt wood frame
Image size 23.5x19.5"
Category
1970s Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Isla 21
Located in New York, NY
Born in the province of Colón, Panamá in 1976, Thannyo De Freitas Navarro experienced an upbringing in which artistic
expression and earthly connect...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Ezekiel in the Valley of Dry Bones
By Philip Burne-Jones
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Christie’s, London, 3 March 1922, lot 46 (with The Tower of Babel);
James Nicoll
Private Collection
Sotheby’s, London, 29 March 1983, lot 157
Private Collection, New Yo...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Angel Concert, Variation II
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: The Angel Concert, Variation II
Year: 1979
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36 x 48 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed, dated, and t...
Category
1970s Photorealist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$72,000 Sale Price
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"Place de la Concorde" Post-Impressionist Parisian Street Scene Oil on Canvas
By Henri Alexis Schaeffer
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist, Henri Alexis Schaeffer. This painting is a wonderful example of his work from the prime of his career. Here you see figures wal...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Breezy Day, Provincetown Beach View
By Albert Lorey Groll
Located in New York, NY
Bright impressionist views done with almost pointillist brushwork are rare and even more so from this vantage point in Provincetown. It is in a h...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Modernist Fauvist Landscape Oklahoma Lake Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract landscape painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1970. Signed. Image size 24L x 18H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category
1970s Modern Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Finely Framed Paper Birch New England Coastal Seascape Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed in a period arts and crafts giltwood frame. Image size, 20H x 16L.
Category
1950s Impressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,220 Sale Price
20% Off
Teacher
s Strike, Oil Painting by William Waithe
By William Waithe
Located in Long Island City, NY
This painting by William Waithe depicts a teachers strike, possibly the infamous teachers' strike in 1970 by Newark teachers which at the time was the longest teachers' strike in the...
Category
1970s American Realist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"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 Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vespers
Located in Fairfield, CT
I primarily paint on location, en plein air. Direct observation allows me to translate the light and color of a particular location as I try to capture a specific point in time. The ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Late Autumn Epic
By Robert William Vonnoh
Located in New York, NY
In this artwork entitled, “A Late Autumn Epic,” Robert William Vonnoh depicts a forest in the fall using his signature impressionist brushwork.
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Sunrise TONALIST Southern GULF IN TEXAS oil painting
Located in New York, NY
Lily Ayres (died 1936)
Circa 1910
“Sunrise Gulf in Texas”
Monogrammed
Oil on Board
8x10 inches unframed
12x14 inches with frame
Original frame with Labels verso
Lily Ayres is an ex...
Category
Early 1900s Barbizon School Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Horseman in Summer, Marie Lucie Nessi, Woman Post Impressionist, Oil paint, 1950
By Marie Lucie Nessi
Located in New York, NY
Marie-Lucie Nessi Valtat
Horseman in Summer, ca. 1950
Oil on canvas mounted on board
10 2/3 x 13 3/4 in l 27 x 35 cm
Frame size: 12 2/3 x 15 3/4 in. l 32 x 40 cm
Marie-Lucie Nessi V...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Couple Walking In an English Landscape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6101 Antique pastoral landscape
Set in a period walnut frame
Image size 14.4x16.4"
Category
1920s Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Afternoon Party, Impressionist Acrylic Painting on Canvas by Erik Freyman
By Erik Freyman
Located in Long Island City, NY
A group of finely dressed party-goers walk through a wooded glen in this contemporary Impressionist painting by Erik Freyman. Nicely framed.
Signed lower left
Canvas size: 14 x 20 ...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Vintage Framed Modernist Romantic Leaves Falling Waterfall Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed verso.
Category
1950s Modern Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$636 Sale Price
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Antique American School Abstract Expressionist Waterfall Nature-scape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted early American modernist abstract landscape. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1940s Abstract Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$780 Sale Price
20% Off
"Jersey City Lofts" Lois Dodd, Plein-Air, Modernist American Urban Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Lois Dodd
Jersey City Lofts, 1998
Signed and dated to lower right; signed, titled and dated to the reverse
Oil on Masonite
10 x 13 inches
Provenance
The artist
Private Collection (g...
Category
1990s American Modern Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Lunch Break” Fletcher Martin, Men Working, Bricklayers, WPA, American Scene
By Fletcher Martin
Located in New York, NY
Fletcher Martin
Lunch Break, circa 1940
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
31 1/2 x 37 3/8 inches
When Fletcher Martin died in 1979, the New York Times entitled his obituary “Artist o...
Category
1940s American Realist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Maine Coast, Ogunquit, " Ernest Albert, American Impressionism, Seascape
By Ernest Albert
Located in New York, NY
Ernest Albert (1857 - 1946)
Maine Coast, Ogunquit, 1937
Oil on canvasboard
18 x 20 inches
Signed and dated lower right; titled on a label on the reverse
A distinguished theatrical and scenic designer who also became a landscape painter and muralist, Ernest Albert worked in New York, St. Louis, and Chicago.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1857, and showing early talent, received the Graham Art...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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