Hudson River School, Landscape

Charles Wilson Knapp (1823-1900) American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 20” x 36”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $8500

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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Sean Witucki (N/A) Contemporary, American

Medium: Oil on Board
Image Size: 8” x 10”
Frame Size: 14” x 16”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $1800

Biography/Statement

Sean M. Witucki (b. 1977) obtained his BS and MS in Visual Art Education from the State University of NY at Buffalo State.  Sean is primarily a self-taught artist, who is always focused on developing his skills in the techniques of the traditional masters.  He has been a drawing and painting instructor at the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts since 2002.

Sean reveals a personal and contemporary expression of landscapes and still lives which pay homage to his formative years. He spent much of his boyhood roaming the fields and woods on the edge of the Berkshire Mountains in Monson, Massachusetts.  This is where his understanding of the natural world took its roots.  This influence plays a major role in the subjects of Sean’s works.

In 2016 Sean had the honor of becoming a Hudson River Fellow with the Grand Central Atelier.  This experience has greatly influenced his work.

Artist Profile Page: Witucki, Sean / Categories: Hudson River School, Landscape, Luminist

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Max Weyl (1837-1914) American, European

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 28” x 23”
Frame Size: 29” x 25”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $7500

Biography/Statement

The story of Max Weyl’s life includes his evolution from a watchmaker too shy to hang his paintings in his own shop window, to finally doing so, and having a major collector see the work and buy it, thus launching the artist in Washington, D.C. But, in the end, Weyl would begin to copy his own, too successful landscapes.

Essentially self-taught, Weyl would draw on three major influences in his art, from Hudson River School through Barbizon School to the American painter George Inness.

Born near Wurttemberg, Germany in Muhlen-am-Neckar in 1837, Weyl was a watchmaker’s apprentice there, eventually opening his own jewelry store in 1861 in Washington after emigrating to the United States. He started painting flowers and still-lifes as a hobby, working on his art for the next ten years. Not until 1870, did he gather the courage to exhibit his work in his store window.

It was at that point that Weyl’s personal miracle occurred—the appearance of a wealthy patron who loved his work and was well connected. He was Samuel Kauffmann, President of the Board of Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and publisher of the “Evening Star” newspaper. Kauffman, of all things, stopped by Weyl’s shop to have his watch repaired. He saw the artist’s paintings and bought a small landscape. That was the beginning. Kauffman continued to purchase paintings as the years went by, as did such Presidential wives as Mrs. Grover Cleveland and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, who would buy and hang Max Weyl’s landscapes of the Washington, D.C. area in the White House.

Weyl still described himself as a jeweler and watchmaker until 1878, when he listed himself as an artist in directories. In 1879, he went to Europe to see the art in the museums. Financed by a successful first exhibition of his paintings, this experience precipitated the Barbizon influence (he came to be called the “American Daubigny” after the well-known Barbizon painter Charles Daubigny).

Weyl’s success and fame grew during the remaining twenty years of the Nineteenth Century, up to his death in 1914. The years of the Twentieth Century saw the influence of Inness in Weyl’s handling of light in poetic landscapes of the Potomac River marshes and Rock Creek Valley just outside Washington. It was the paintings of the latter subject that the artist eventually turned into a formula because of their popularity.

Max Weyl was a member of the Washington Art Club. His work is seen at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Source: David Michael Zellman, “Three Hundred Years of American Art”

Artist Profile Page: Weyl, Max / Categories: Barbizon School, Hudson River School, Landscape

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Thomas DeDecker (1951-) Contemporary, American

(Lily Pond)

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 30” x 40”
Frame Size: 38” x 48”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $8500

Biography/Statement

Thomas DeDecker was born in 1951, in Appleton, Wisconsin and has lived in Redmond, Washington since 1975.

Before attending college, he was primarily interested in archaeology and anthropology, but was inspired by a student art show at Brigham Young University where he was enrolled. After college, he traveled throughout the West and then settled in Washington State because of his interest in the Plains tribes.

He paints western landscapes, and landscapes in the Hudson River style.  He also paints scenes of Native American life and customs.

Artist Profile Page: DeDecker, Thomas / Categories: Hudson River School, Landscape

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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

Arthur Parton (American,1842-1914.)  Oil on canvas, 26 x 36.  Outside frame size- 38 x 48.  Signed lower left, original Barbizon frame w/plaque, exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1895.  $12,500

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: $2400

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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Lauren Sansaricq (1990-) Contemporary, American

Medium: Oil on Board
Image Size: 12” x 16”
Frame Size: 18” x 22”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Lauren Sansaricq (b. 1990) grew up in Columbia County, New York, where from an early age she was exposed to both the beauties of the Hudson Valley and, under the teaching of Thomas Locker, to the traditional painting techniques of the Hudson River School.

Taking Mr. Locker’s advice Miss Sansaricq received academic training in drawing and painting at the Grand Central Academy of Art in NYC. In 2011, at just 21 years old, she was taken under the representation of Hawthorne Fine Art, a prestigious New York gallery specializing in 19th century Hudson River School Painting.  Lauren was also honored with a solo show in New York at Hawthorne Fine Art that same year.

Her work has been exhibited in Manhattan at historic venues like the Salmagundi Club, the National Arts Club and the Union League Club. In 2012 she had a solo show at Saint Anselm College, and was also featured at the Boston International Fine Arts Show.

One of Lauren’s paintings was also featured in The New York Times, surrounding the show she was apart of, “The Great Hudson River Exhibition”, in upstate NY. Today her work is in collections throughout the country, and is displayed beside some of the best American painters of the past.

She teaches every summer on the Hudson River Fellowship, and now resides in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Artist Profile Page: Sansaricq, Lauren / Categories: Hudson River School, Landscape, Marine / Seascape

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Lauren Sansaricq (1990-) Contemporary, American

Landscape

Medium: Oil on Panel
Image Size: 24” x 36”
Frame Size: 34” x 46”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Lauren Sansaricq (b. 1990) grew up in Columbia County, New York, where from an early age she was exposed to both the beauties of the Hudson Valley and, under the teaching of Thomas Locker, to the traditional painting techniques of the Hudson River School.

Taking Mr. Locker’s advice Miss Sansaricq received academic training in drawing and painting at the Grand Central Academy of Art in NYC. In 2011, at just 21 years old, she was taken under the representation of Hawthorne Fine Art, a prestigious New York gallery specializing in 19th century Hudson River School Painting.  Lauren was also honored with a solo show in New York at Hawthorne Fine Art that same year.

Her work has been exhibited in Manhattan at historic venues like the Salmagundi Club, the National Arts Club and the Union League Club. In 2012 she had a solo show at Saint Anselm College, and was also featured at the Boston International Fine Arts Show.

One of Lauren’s paintings was also featured in The New York Times, surrounding the show she was apart of, “The Great Hudson River Exhibition”, in upstate NY. Today her work is in collections throughout the country, and is displayed beside some of the best American painters of the past.

She teaches every summer on the Hudson River Fellowship, and now resides in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Artist Profile Page: Sansaricq, Lauren / Categories: Hudson River School, Landscape

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James Crawford Thom (1835-1898) American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 22” x 36”
Frame Size: 32” x 46”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Hudson River School style landscapist and genre painter James Crawford Thom was born in New York City in 1835, though he grew up on a farm just north of the City in Ramapo, New York.  He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City as an eighteen-year-old before going to Paris, where he studied with Camille Corot, Thomas Couture and Henri Picou.  He also studied with Pierre Edouard Frere whose paintings of children and peasants in the countryside seem to have influenced Thom, known for his pictures of children out-of-doors.

A seven-year interlude in London, 1866-1873, led to exhibitions and increasing awareness of his work there, and in the latter year to exhibitions in America that encouraged the artist and his family to return to New York City.  They later moved to Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, where the artist died of pneumonia in 1898.

In 1983, nearly one-hundred years after his death, an exhibition of James Crawford Thom’s work was held in East Brunswick, New Jersey.  His paintings may be seen in the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Source:  David Michael Zellman, Three Hundred Years of American Art

Artist Profile Page: Thom, James Crawford / Categories: Hudson River School, Landscape

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Patrick McPhee (N/A) Contemporary, American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 36” x 48”
Frame Size: 44” x 56”
Signature: Signed
Price: $12500

Biography/Statement

Artist statement:

“My mother first introduced me to the wonderful, messy world of smearing oil pastels at the age of six. Something about trying to capture a memory on paper while avoiding school work just stuck with me and with encouragement from my family, I began exploring other mediums. Throughout my school years, I tested a wide variety of subjects, but my love forthe outdoors and fishing ultimately led me to depicting scenes of nature in my work. My education continued at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, where I was fortunate to have many talented mentors helping me to develop as an artist. I have since applied these lessons in my pursuit of nature’s truth.

For years I have admired the Hudson River School of landscape painters. Their reverence for nature and warning of man’s impact on the environment have never been more relevant than now.

In the setting of our current environmental peril, it is my hope that my art can call some attention to the purity of an untouched land, and perhaps encourage others to help protect it from future harm.”

Artist Profile Page: McPhee, Patrick / Categories: Hudson River School, Landscape

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