Hudson River School, Landscape

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: SOLD

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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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: $12500

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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Arthur Parton (1832-1914) American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 22” x 28”
Signature: Signed lower left
Price: SOLD

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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Lemuel D. Eldred (1850-1921) American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 20” x 36”
Frame Size: 25” x 40”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Marine painter and etcher Lemuel D. Eldred was born and raised in Fairhaven, Massachusetts near New Bedford’s whaling community. He studied for a short time at the Academie Julian in Paris (1880) and traveled throughout Europe (1883) but he claimed he was self-taught. He exhibited in Boston and at the National Academy in 1876. His work is represented in the Peabody Museum of Salem, MA, the Old Dartmouth Historical Society and the Kendall Whaling Museum.

Little is known of Lemuel D. Eldred’s life. His work typlifies the late Hudson River School painters’ moral standards and natural views which were popular after 1825 until 1875. In 1876 he moved to Boston where he kept a studio and he became a sought-after, popular marine painter.

Eldred painted realistic canvases in oil of Boston Harbor, the Maine Coast, New York and more often in the seaport town of Fairhaven, Massachusetts where he painted outdoors with his close friend, fellow marine-painter (also from Fairhaven) William Bradford (1823-1892). Although Eldred enjoyed Bradford’s Quaker beliefs and polite mannerisms, he did not join Bradford in his exploratory polar expeditions to Labrador. Similar to some of Bradford’s northern Atlantic coastline paintings, Eldred accurately and surely painted tight, realistic New England coastal villages, harbors, cliffs and beaches.

Artist Profile Page: Eldred, Lemuel D. / Categories: Hudson River School, Landscape

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