Edward B. Gay

Pastoral Landscape

1870

This impressionist oil painting landscape with two people under an orchard tree was done by American artist John Fulton Folinsbee (1892-1972). Folinsbee was born in Buffalo, New York, spending much of his life in the New Hope, Pennsylvania area, becoming well known for his impressionist landscape paintings and later in life, industrial street genre paintings. Provenance: The painting has been included in the catalogue on Folinsbee. It was painted circa 1916 and exhibited at Smith College in 1916 and sold at that exhibition.This is from the catalogue: In the Orchard...

A wonderfully detailed New England landscape by Scottish American artist James Hope (1818-1892). Hope was born in Drygrange, Roxboroughshire, Scotland. After the death of his mother,...

A wonderful Autumn landscape likely of the Hudson River Valley by the revered American artist William Louis Sonntag (1822-1900). Sonntag was born near Pittsburgh, PA and moved to Cincinnati, OH in the 1840’s to study art. He studied for a brief time with G. Frankenstein at the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Art and his idealized paintings of American wilderness and visionary paintings of imagined European ruins were commercially successful. He traveled twice to Europe in the 1850’s to improve his skills, eventually settling in New York City. He joined the National Academy of Design, where he exhibited his works for forty years. His mature works identify him with the Hudson River School of landscape painters. A romantic and naturalistic painter of his surroundings, Sonntag also created idealized paintings of Roman ruins, recalling his European trips of earlier years. Sonntag was an Associate (1860) and Academician (1861) at the National Academy of Design, and a member of the American Watercolor Society, Artists Fund Society, and the American Art Union...

A fine New England landscape with a cart path and birch tree by Swedish-American artist Theodore Victor Carl Valenkamph (1868-1924). Valenkamph was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and emi...

Signed lower right: JR Brevoort

James Renwick Brevoort (1832–1918) was an influential American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, a mid-19th century art movement known for its romantic portr...

This artwork "Landscape" in an oil painting on canvas by noted American artist Frederick Ernest Swedlun, AKA: Ernest Fredericks (1877–1959) It is sig...

William Merritt Post (1856–1935) was an American tonalist and landscape painter celebrated for his atmospheric depictions of rural New England. Working in a tonal style, Post used mu...