Hudson River School, Landscape

Joseph Antonio Hekking (1830-1903) American

Medium: Oil on board
Image Size: 9” x 7”
Frame Size: 15” x 12.75”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $3200

Biography/Statement

J. A. Hekking was a versatile and talented landscape painter who lived in New York and Connecticut and was active from the early 1850’s to the later 1870’s.  Hekking was a frequent participant at major exhibitions. His paintings were inspired by the Adirondack and White Mountains, Connecticut, New York views, and the Jersey shore.  He worked with Frederick Rondeland.  His paintings were actively acquired by important collectors including J.S. Farrand, Sarah Holderby, N.L. Lindsey, T. Foster, and George Watter Vincent Smith.

Hekking exhibited at the National Academy of Design (eight paintings between 1859 and 1875); the 1865 Michigan State Fair; the Crystal Palace in New York, 1853; Cosmopolitan Art Association, 1858; Utica Art Association, 1868; Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1869; Boston;1869; the Buffalo YMCA, 1861 and the Chicago Industrial Exposition in 1876. Hekking is listed in the exhibition records of the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Groce and Wallace New York Historical Society Dictionary of Artists in America.

He is in the following books: 

• Art and Artists in Connecticut, published in 1879, by H.W. French
• New Hampshire Scenery, published in 1985, by Catherine H. Campbell
• Artists of Early Michigan, published by the Wayne State University Press, Detroit, in 1975, compiled by Arthur Hopkin Gibson.

Artist Profile Page: Hekking, Joseph Antonio / Categories: Hudson River School, Landscape

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William Guy Wall (1792-1864)

Catskill Mountain House (1826)

Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 26” x 36”
Frame Size: 36” x 46”
Signature: Unsigned
Price: $250000

Biography/Statement

William Guy Wall (1792–1864) was an American painter of Irish birth.

Wall was born in Dublin in 1792 and arrived in New York in 1812. He was already a well trained artist and soon became well known for his sensitive watercolor views of the Hudson River Valley and surroundings. Some of these watercolors were published as engravings by John Hill and his son John William Hill in the Hudson River Portfolio (New York, 1821–1825), one of the first publications to make Americans aware of the beauty of their own country. Wall’s landscapes (and a few seascapes) were straightforward representations of America’s awe-inspiring vistas—neither romanticized nor idealized. He is classified as either a forerunner or an early member of the Hudson River School. Wall was a founding member of the National Academy of Design (New York) and exhibited frequently at such institutions as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia) and the Apollo Association (New York). He lived in America from 1812 to 1835 and again from 1856 to 1860. He returned to Ireland in 1860 and died in Dublin in 1864. William Guy Wall’s son, William Archibald Wall (1828 – 1878), was also a landscape painter.

The Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth, Texas), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Hudson River Museum (Yonkers, New York), the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New-York Historical Society are among the public collections having paintings by William Guy Wall.

 

Source: Wikipedia

Artist Profile Page: Wall, William Guy / Categories: Hudson River School

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Charles Wilson Knapp (1823-1900) American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 20” x 36”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Charles W. Knapp is well known for his quintessential depictions of farm life along the rivers and shorelines of America from New Hampshire to upper state New York. “View of the Susquehanna River” was painted between 1860-1870 in Pennsylvania farm country, where cattle drank along rivers and farmers piled hay on wagons to feed animals. This canvas is a major example painted during the peak of the Hudson River School tradition.

Knapp was born in Philadelphia in 1823 and he died in that city in 1900. He first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1859, at which time his address is listed as New York City. In 1878 he exhibited two New Hampshire views at the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association in Boston, many views at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1877-1887) and most recently his canvases of Ellsworth Brook in West Campton, NH, the Entrance to Franconia Knotch, Silver Lake near Mount Chocorua, the Peabody River in Mount Washington, Saco and Kearsarge and the White Mountains from Androscoggin Valley were listed in New Hampshire Scenery (C.H. Campbell, NH Historical Society, Phoenix Publishing1985).

His paintings are in many relevant private collections and at the New Hampshire Historical Society, Dartmouth College Art Galleries and elsewhere. He is considered a leading White Mountains painter, but he spent many years in and around Philadelphia and the Susquehanna River painting landscapes from life. He also painted Narragansett Bay (RI), the Pocanos, the Catskills, the Delaware Water Gap and along the New Jersey Shore.

Artist Profile Page: Knapp, Charles Wilson / Categories: Hudson River School, Landscape

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James Wethered Bell (N/A) American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 30” x 50”
Signature: Signed and dated Lower Left 1882
Price: $12000

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Arthur Parton (1832-1914) American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 26” x 22”
Frame Size: 40” x 36”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $9500

Biography/Statement

Known as a Hudson River School painter, especially of mountain landscapes, Arthur Parton was well established in the New York art world where he exhibited at the National Academy of Design for more than half a century.  He was born in Hudson, New York to a religious family supported by a cabinetmaker father.  He enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as a student of William Trost Richards, who remained a strong influence, and in 1862, his first exhibitions were in Philadelphia.

In 1864, he moved to New York City where he exhibited regularly with the National Academy of Design excepting 1869 when he spent a year in Europe and was influenced by the Barbizon style of painting.

In 1874, he and his wife moved into the Tenth Street Building in New York City, and he kept his studio there until 1893.  In 1876, he gained much national notoriety at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition for his paintings ‘November, Loch Lomond and Solitude.’

He spent summers painting in the Adirondacks and Catskill Mountains and also in England and Scotland as indicated by his entry at the Philadelphia Exposition.

During his career, he explored several styles including Tonalism and Impressionism but seemed to remain most closely influenced by the Hudson River style including Luminism.

Sources include:
Michael David Zellman, 300 Years of American Art
Peter Falk, 300 Years of American Art

Artist Profile Page: Parton, Arthur / Categories: Hudson River School, Landscape

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Erik Koeppel (1980-) Contemporary, American

Sunset Landscape

Medium: Oil on Panel
Image Size: 5” x 12”
Frame Size: 11” x 18”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

STATEMENT:

In the act of painting, I have sought to discover that highest knowledge of Beauty, poetic and philosophical, that has been the common thread between all of the Great Masters of Art. I have spent hours staring at the finest masterpieces in museums worldwide in an effort to decipher that meditative effect that distinguishes greatness from proficiency, and have made the creation of that sentiment my central goal as an artist. Following this path has led me to study deeply the sciences of philosophy, design, linear perspective, anatomy, color, optics, architecture, botany, light and atmosphere with respect to their purposes in art, and I have built a foundation of consistent formal principles that work in harmony to illuminate meaning in painting. As my subject, I have chosen the universal human condition in this world, and have sought wherever possible to discard the sociopolitical fashions of contemporary culture in favor of those enduring sentiments that we all encounter in life. It is my belief that to experience the Beauty of our existence here in this magnificent landscape is the only way to happiness. My intention as an artist is to share that Beauty. 

Artist Profile Page: Koeppel, Erik / Categories: Hudson River School, Landscape, Luminist

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William Walton (1843-1915) American

View eastward toward the Taghkanic Range

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 30” x 50”
Frame Size: 38” x 58”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $9500

Biography/Statement

William Walton painted landscapes in the Mid-Hudson valley in the late 19th century.

Artist Profile Page: Walton, William / Categories: Hudson River School, Landscape

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