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Portrait of Captain Weber
Herman Gustave Herkomer, R.O.I.
(1862-1935)
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated ‘Herman G.
Herkomer 1906,’ lower left
44 ¼ x 34 inches
55 ½ x 45 ¼ inches, framed
The Canadian Rockies
Harold Broadfield Warren
(1859-1934)
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated ‘H.B. Warren 1910,’ lower left
50 ½ x 38 ¼ inches
58 ⅛ x 45 ⅞ inches, framed
American School
America's first well-known school of painting—the Hudson River School—appeared in 1820. As with music and literature, this development was delayed until artists perceived that the New World offered subjects unique to itself; in this case the westward expansion of settlement brought the transcendent beauty of frontier landscapes to painters' attention. The Hudson River painters' directness and simplicity of vision influenced later artists who depicted rural America—the sea, the mountains, and the people who lived near them.
Paintings of the Great West, particularly the act of conveying the sheer size of the land and the cultures of the native people living on it, were starting to emerge as well. Artists broke from traditional styles of showing land, most often done to show how much a subject owned, to show the West and its people as honestly as possible.
Many painters who are considered American spent some time in Europe and met other European artists in Paris and London, such as Mary Cassatt, Daniel Ridgway Knight and Whistler.
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La Tarantelle devant le Vésuve
William K. Fellows
(1870-1948)
Oil on canvas
Signed on reverse
39 ⅜ x 29 ½ inches
46 ¾ x 36 ⅞ inches, framed
Two Sisters
Dewey Bates
(1851-1899)
Oil on canvas
Signed, ‘Dewey Bates 1884,’ lower right
30 ¼ x 25 inches
44 x 39 inches, framed
