19th and early 20th Century American Impressionist Works of Art.
Clarence Edgar Baldwin (American 1862-1939) - The Artist's Wife in an Interior, 1910. Oil on canvas, unlined. 36 x 22 inches. Signed and dated lower left: C.E. Baldwin, 1910. Excellent condition, Whistler style gold-leaf frame. A very rare work by the artist who had a Des Moines, Iowa connection and studied in New York with Wiliiam Merritt Chase.
Dwight William Blaney (American 1865-1944) - Winter, Eastham, Massachusetts, 1907. Oil on canvas, 22 x 26 inches. Signed lower right: Dwight Blaney, 07. Excellent condition, framed. Painted for Dr. Fordyce Coburn of Lowell, Mass. who Blaney and Frank Weston Benson hunted with in Eastham, where Coburn had property. Titled "Eastham, Winter" on the stretcher and inscribed: For Dr. Fordyce Coburn, Lowell, Mass., in Blaney's hand, in pencil.
George Pearse Ennis (American 1884-1936) - Seminole Indian Maiden, Florida, 1932. Oil on canvas, 25 x 30 inches. Signed lower right: Ennis. Titled: A Seminole Maiden, 1932, on the stretcher in the artist's hand. Cronyn Gallieries Exhibition label, verso with a price of $400.00 when it was exhibited in 1932. Excellent condition, period moulding.
CHARLES EDWIN LEWIS GREEN (1844-1915)
Boston Common, Looking Toward Beacon Street, n.d.
Oil on canvas
14 x 18 inches
Signed at lower right: C. E. L. Green
Titled on the stretcher bar verso: Boston Common looking toward Beacon Street
A native of Lynn, Massachusetts, Charles (C.E.L.) Green became an artist committed to painting American subject matter, especially the marine and landscape scenes of his native area. He often signed his paintings C.E.L. and was part of the seven “Lynn Beach Painters” that included his close friend, Charles Woodbury.
He began working in the local shoe and leather industry and used the money to take art classes. He and several others had adjoining studios in Lee Hall in the City Square of Lynn.
From the 1880s through 1910, he was a regular exhibitor at the Boston Art Club and also took lessons there. He was a plein-air painter, he completing his landscape and marine scenes outdoors with minimal over painting of colors.
In 1885, he moved to Boston where he and Charles Woodbury had adjoining studios on Green Street and committed themselves to making their living exclusively with their painting. They succeeded, and for several years, they were linked together as being non-European trained, stay-at-home artists with very similar impressionist styles and American subject matter. They prided themselves on avoiding European influence, but in the 1890s, their styles became increasingly impressionist from seeing European works in Boston exhibitions.
Green had his first one-man show in 1886 at the J Eastman Chase Gallery, one of Boston’s most prestigious exhibition venues at that time. In 1906, Green moved from Boston to his hometown of Lynn where in 1909, he became one of the founders of the Lynn Art Club. He died on January 18, 1915, having been a major influence on succeeding generations of painters inspired to paint local marine scenes of the Boston area.
Addison T. Millar (American 1860-1913) - On the Harlem River, circa 1890's. Oil on canvas, mtd. on board, 5.25 x 3 1/8 inches. Signed lower left: A.T. Millar. Excellent condition, framed. Titled verso. The scene depicts boats on the Harlem River with the newly constructed Macombs Dam Bridge visible in the background. Construction on the bridge began in 1890 and finished in 1895. It was the third bridge over the Harlem River.
Harry Herman Roseland (American 1868-1950) - Old Mammy's Prediction, 1906. Oil on canvas, relined. 20 x 30 inches. Signed lower left: Harry Roseland/Copyright 1906. Excellent condition, framed. An outstanding example of Roseland's genre paintings, having descended in a private Upstate New York collection.
Henry Joseph Thouron (American 1851-1915) - Up Hill, Study of Roman Street Vender (sic), 1889. Oil on canvas, unlined. 8.50 x 6.25 inches. Signed and inscribed verso, "Up Hill" Study of Roman Street Vender/H. Thouron, Rome, 1889. First sold for the benefit of the Philad. Society of Artists. Price: $30.00.
Carl Wuermer (American 1900-1981) - The Edge of the Forest (Behind my studio, Woodstock, New York), n.d. Oil on canvas, 33.25 x 36.25 inches. Signed lower left: Carl Wuermer. Inscribed, verso in the artist's hand: No. 63/At the Edge of the Forest/By Carl Wuermer. Excellent condition, Period Italian Cassetta frame. An early, major work by the artist.
Frederick Hatfield Clark (American 1861-1945) - Winter Dawn at Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, Looking towards Lagoon Heights from South Williams Street, 1918. Oil on canvas, unlined. 6 x 12 inches. Signed lower right. Signed, dated and titled in the artist's hand in pencil on the stretcher. Original condition, framed.