Hudson River School, Landscape

Patrick McPhee (N/A) Contemporary, American

After Sanford Robinson Gifford's 'A Coming Storm'

Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 30.5” x 45.5”
Frame Size: 40” x 55”
Signature: Signed lower left
Price: $15000

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

Other Available Works by this Artist:

Similar Works

Hudson River School

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: $300000

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

Other Available Works by this Artist:

Similar Works

Hudson River School

Roswell Morse Shurtleff (1838-1915) American

Late Evening in the Adirondacks

Medium: Oil on board
Image Size: 14” x 11”
Frame Size: 18” x 15”
Signature: Initialed R.S.M. in the lower center
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Roswell Morse Shurtleff was born in 1838 in Rindge, New Hampshire, along the state’s border with Massachusetts, and briefly worked for a lithographer in Buffalo, New York, before moving to Boston in 1859 to pursue his education in the fine arts. He found a day job as an engraver while taking evening classes at the Lowell Institute, and one year later enrolled at the National Academy of Design in New York. During this time he made ends meet doing illustrations for magazines and newspapers, and when the Civil War broke out Shurtleff enlisted early, joining the 99th New York Volunteers. He was quickly promoted to Lieutenant before being wounded and captured during a scouting mission in July of 1861, and spent the next eight months confined to southern hospitals and prisons. Upon his release, Shurtleff visited his mother in Winchendon, Connecticut, where he would meet his future wife Clara Halliday, and was eventually sent back to New York to take charge of the state’s paroled captives, a position he held until just before the end of the war. He returned to his illustration work, married Clara in 1867 and moved to Hartford two years later. Around this time, the couple began spending summers in Keene Valley, in the Adirondacks, and it is here that Shurtleff took up oil painting in earnest, finding inspiration among the region’s dense forests and unspoiled wilderness.

In 1875, the Shurtleffs relocated from Hartford to New York City, where the artist could stay more closely involved with the art circles of the day. Thereafter they continued to divide their time between the city and Keene Valley, spending the summer and autumn months at the latter and eventually building a home, christened Shirecliffe, which the artist designed. Although he was not the first artist to discover the beauty of Keene Valley, Shurtleff’s name became synonymous with the region owing to his longtime residency and over the years he befriended many of his fellow painters, including Winslow Homer, who began visiting the Adirondacks in 1870.

The landscapes resulting from Shurtleff’s sojourns in the Adirondacks garnered praise from critics and collectors alike when shown at the Brooklyn Art Association, the Boston Art Club, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the National Academy of Design, which made Shurtleff an Associate in 1880 and a full Academician ten years later. He was also a member of the American Watercolor Society and the Salmagundi Club, as well as the Lotos Club, which hosted a memorial exhibition of Shurtleff’s work in January of 1916, one year after his unexpected passing.

Today, Shurtleff’s transcriptions of the forests and glades of upstate New York that charmed him for decades can be found in several museum collections, including the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, DC, the Smith College Museum of Art, in Northampton, Massachusetts, the Worcester Art Museum, and the Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake in New York.

Source:
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
Peggy and Harold Samuels, Artists of the American West

Artist Profile Page: Shurtleff, Roswell Morse / Categories: Hudson River School

Other Available Works by this Artist:

Similar Works

Hudson River School, Landscape

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

Other Available Works by this Artist:

Similar Works

Hudson River School, Landscape, Luminist

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: $2200

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

Other Available Works by this Artist:

Similar Works

Hudson River School, Luminist, Moonlight

Sean Witucki (N/A) Contemporary, American

Nocturnal view of Niagra Falls

Medium: Oil on Board
Image Size: 8” x 10”
Frame Size: 14” x 16”
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, Luminist, Moonlight

Other Available Works by this Artist:

Similar Works

Hudson River School, Landscape

Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) American, European

Includes an extensive and well-researched letter from the Havell expert Gerold Wunderlich.

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 30” x 50”
Frame Size: 38” x 58”
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Born in Reading, England, Robert Havell was the son of an engraver, and was expected to follow that profession.  Fulfilling his destiny, he is remembered for  his aquatint engraving of all but the first 10 plates of John James Audubon’s Birds of America.  He first visited Audubon in 1839 in New York City and traveled and sketched the countryside in a homemade horse-drawn trailer, and together they had skills that were well met.  He also did artwork in oil and watercolor in Hudson River style with Luminism.  However, he preferred to think of himself as an engraver.

Until 1841, he lived in Brooklyn and in 1842 his travel-weary wife established a house for the family in Ossining (Sing Sing) on the Hudson River, and he later, 1857, moved to Tarrytown, living there to his death in 1878.  During this time he did landscape painting that in style and subject matter fit the criteria for being Hudson River School painting. Among his titles were several titled View of the Hudson River, as well as Sunset Near Sing-Sing and Fauns Leap, NY.

Havell traveled frequently, sketching and taking notes and then doing studio landscapes in oil and watercolor as well as making engravings, the later which remained his favorite medium.  His engraving, West Point from Fort Putnam, received much public attention, and he also did engravings of American cities.

Source:
David Michael Zellman, 300 Years of American Art, p. 113
Peter Hastings Falk, Who Was Who in American Art

Artist Profile Page: Havell Jr., Robert / Categories: Hudson River School, Landscape

Other Available Works by this Artist:

Similar Works

Hudson River School, Landscape

James Wethered Bell (N/A) American

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

Biography/Statement

Artist Profile Page: Bell, James Wethered / Categories: Hudson River School, Landscape

Other Available Works by this Artist:

Similar Works

Hudson River School, Landscape, Luminist

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

Other Available Works by this Artist:

Similar Works

Hudson River School, Landscape

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

Other Available Works by this Artist:

Similar Works