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Boys Dancing
By Edmund Ward
Located in New York, NY
Purchased from Ward Estate after his passing in 1990. Part of a private collection since mid 1990's till now and custom framed in handmade unique frames. Ward had a unique vision on ...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil
Muhammed Ali
By Edmund Ward
Located in New York, NY
Purchased from Ward Estate after his passing in 1990. Part of a private collection since mid 1990's till now and custom framed in handmade unique frames. Ward had a unique vision on ...
Category
1970s Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil
Detente
By Edmund Ward
Located in New York, NY
Purchased from Ward Estate after his passing in 1990. Part of a private collection since mid 1990's till now and custom framed in handmade unique frames. Ward had a unique vision on ...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil
"Summer Evening in the Swedish Archipelago", original oil on canvas, Tonalist
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
This is an original unique oil painting by the artist. Sigfrid Andreas "Sigge" Jernmark (July 9, 1887 – July 12, 1982) was a Swedish painter, cartoonist and decorator. Jernmark recei...
Category
20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
On the Mountain Side
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Chauncey F Ryder
Category
19th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil
“Boston Windmills”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful tonalist oil on canvas painting by the well known American artist, Royal Hill Milleson. Signed lower right. Milleson moved to Boston in 1...
Category
1890s Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Small Tonalist Landscape by Robertson Mygatt
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Robertson K. Mygatt
(American, 1862-1919)
Trees by a Small Pond
Oil on panel, 5 1/8 x 6 3/4 inches
Framed: 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (approx.)
The landscape painter and etcher Robertson...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Poppit Sands #19, Wales
Located in London, GB
"I went there one evening and just by chance there was a low tide. I took a batch of photos and once I developed them at home I saw a certain light and a certain type of picture that...
Category
2010s Tonalist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
New York City Hazy Day , Central Park West Towers Cradle Orange Red Sun
Located in Miami, FL
Dense smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed New York City with a thick, warm grey haze, giving the sky a surreal quality. Sunset enhanced the hazy effect. Photographer Mitchell Fun...
Category
2010s Tonalist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Antique American Impressionist Winter Landscape Signed Framed Oil Painting
By Bruce Crane
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nice example from important American tonalist artist Bruce (Robert Bruce) Crane (1857 - 1937). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
1890s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Allan Ramsay II, Evening Glow Near Glamis Forfarshire, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century oil painting by Scottish artist Allan Ramsay II (1852-1912) depicts a gentle river view near Glamis in Angus, Scotland. As the sun...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Edmund Ward
Located in New York, NY
Purchased from Ward Estate after his passing in 1990. Part of a private collection since mid 1990's till now and custom framed in handmade unique frames. Ward had a unique vision on ...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil
“”Sunset over the Marsh”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of a brilliant sunset over a marsh. Signed lower right “A.L. Groll”. Condition is fair. Unlined canvas. Circa 1895. Presently unframed.
Albert Gr...
Category
1890s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cetaldo (Italy) In The Rain
By Anna Hornby
Located in Brecon, Powys
Oil on canvas of a Italian Rural scene by this well known and much exhibited artist.
Cetaldo In The Rain catches the atmosphere of a gentle rain on a hot summers day.
Anna Hornby (1914 - 1996) studied art in Florence with landscape and flower painter Aubrey Waterfield in 1934, and later that year enrolled at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London where she studied under Francis Ernest Jackson...
Category
1960s Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Henry Ward Ranger Connecticut Landscape Oil Painting 1858–1916 American Tonalist
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Henry Ward Ranger
Connecticut Landscape
oil/panel 12 x 16 image size 21 3/8 x 25 3/8 x 2 3/4 framed
A wonderful example of Rangers painting style of glazes and areas of impasto text...
Category
20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil
Emil Carlsen American Impressionist Seascape oil Painting Salmagundi Club
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Emil (Soren Emil) Carlsen (1848 or 53 - 1932)
Seascape with Boats
Oil on Board, Signed, Measures ( 6 x 8.5 inches unframed )
w/frame ( 12.75 x 14.25 inches )
The painting is in goo...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil
Bertel Hansen-Svaneke, Interior, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Bertel Hansen-Svaneke (1883-1937) depicts an interior with chest of drawers, chair and gilt-framed artworks.
Hansen-Svaneke tre...
Category
1930s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chauncey Foster Ryder Landscape with Figures Oil Painting 1868-1949 Tonalist
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
CHAUNCEY FOSTER RYDER (American, 1868-1949),
Pasture Lands
oil/canvas signed LR 31.5 x 39.5 image, 40.5 x 48.5 framed
A wonderfully subtle tonalist painting by Ryder incorprating a farmer/farmhand probably moving cows about the pastures mid right in the scene. Ryder uses a subtle S design from lower left that zig zags upto the figure and cows. The painting shows Ryder's masterful use of abstract design and technique utilizing textures in his application of paint giving the painting life and interest.
Original frame, some craquelure in sky, old surface. Bears Newhouse Galleries, possibly NYC, label verso.
The painting hangs in my collection currently and would benefit from a cleaning and new varnish. It is a large museum quality oil painting. Will need white glove shipping as it is too large and the 15% discount for anyone whos saves this painting in their favorites more than covers the cost of shipping. The handling time is listed as 10 days but is dependant on who 1stdibs hires and their schedule to pick up and deliver. 3 -7 weeks is listed in the shipping section.
Bio-
Chauncey Foster Ryder (29 February 1868 – 18 May 1949)[1] was an early 20th century American Postimpressionist Tonalist landscape painter known for a green-gray palette termed 'Ryder green'.
Education and personal life
Ryder was born in 1868 in Danbury, Connecticut, but grew up mainly in New Haven.[2][3] He began studying painting as a boy. In his early twenties, he moved to Chicago to attend the Art Institute,[4] then Smith's Academy.[5] After only a year at the latter, he was hired as an instructor.[5]
In 1891, he married Mary Dole Keith.[5] In 1901, they moved to Paris, France, where Ryder continued his art education, studying with Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian. Ryder stayed in France for several years, living in an art colony at Étaples and exhibiting his work at the Paris Salon (1903–1909).[3] He took on occasional students, including American painter William Posey Silva...
Category
20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil
The Battle
Located in Chicago, IL
It is only after we emerged from the horrible Pandemic, that we realized what a battle it was for simple daily living. Tom created The Battle a few years into the Pandemic.
The pict...
Category
2010s Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil, Rag Paper, Pigment
Navajos at Rest
By Edgar Payne
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Navajos at Rest" is an oil on canvas painting by Edgar Alwin Payne. The painting is signed at the lower right, "Edgar Payne". The framed piece measures 25 1/4...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Leon Dolice Chrysler Building at Night
By Leon Dolice
Located in San Francisco, CA
Leon Dolice: 1892-1960. Well listed American artist with Auction results as high as $6000 for a pastel of the Chrysler building. This is exactly what you want in a Dolice. A tonalist...
Category
1940s Tonalist Art
Materials
Pastel
Venetian Boats at Sotto Marino
By Edgar Payne
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Venetian Boats at Sotto Marino" is a painting by Edgar Alwin Payne. The painting is signed lower left, "Edgar Payne". The framed piece measures 31 1/2 x 34 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.
Payne wa...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil
Sunset, 1910 by Hudson Mindell Kitchell (American, 1864-1944)
Located in New York, NY
An early 20th century nocturne by Hudson Mindell Kitchell (1864-1944), Sunset, 1910 features a figure sitting beneath a tree beside a body of w...
Category
20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The starting Line
By Edmund Ward
Located in New York, NY
Purchased from Ward Estate after his passing in 1990. Part of a private collection since mid 1990's till now and custom framed in handmade unique frames. Ward had a unique vision on ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil
"Summer Landscape" Charles Harry Eaton, Tonalist Barbizon Landscape
By Charles Harry Eaton
Located in New York, NY
Charles Harry Eaton
Summer Landscape
Signed lower right
Watercolor on paper
9 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches
Inspired by the Barbizon style of painting and devoted to the Detroit landscape...
Category
Late 19th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Emil Carlsen American Impressionist landscape oil Painting Salmagundi Club
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Yellow Landscape/Wood Interior/Birch Forest
3 different titles on 3 labels
DESCRIPTION
Yellow Landscape oil /panel
bears Florence G. Carlsen Estate stamp on Brett Mitchell Collecti...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil
Charles Rollo Peters Monterey Sunset or Moonrise
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charles Rollo Peters: 1862-1928. Well listed California painter with auction results over $57,000. He was born in San Francisco but spent much of his adult life in Monterey. He is be...
Category
Late 19th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil
Early Tonalist Landscape -- California Coastal Live Oaks William Schneider 1915
Located in Soquel, CA
Early Tonalist Landscape -- California Coastal Live Oaks William Schneider 1915
Beautiful early 20th Century tonalist landscape of California by New York artist William G. Schneider ...
Category
1910s Tonalist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Green Field and Barn - A Tonalist Landscape by Robertson Mygatt
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Robertson K. Mygatt
(American, 1862-1919)
Green Field and Barn
Oil on panel, 6 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches
Framed: 10 x 15 inches
The landscape painter and etcher Robertson K. Mygatt was born in New York City and studied at the Art Students’ League with John Twachtman...
Category
1910s Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
TREES WITH SUNLIT and SHADOWED PATH
Located in Santa Monica, CA
PEDRO J. LEMOS (American, 1882-1954)
TREES WITH SUNLIT and SHADOWED PATH, c. 1915-25
Pastel drawing on colored paper 12 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches. Full signature in pastel, Pedro J Lemos. In good condition. A few bits of old tape at the corners, verso
Pedro de Lemos was an important proponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. He produced some of the finest color woodcuts of the period as well as fine pastels, paintings and architecture.
He was also an instructor and director of the Stanford University Art Department,
From Wikipedia:
Pedro Joseph de Lemos (25 May 1882 – 5 December 1954) was an American painter, printmaker, architect, illustrator, writer, lecturer, museum director and art educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to about 1930 he used the simpler name Pedro Lemos or Pedro J. Lemos; between 1931 and 1933 he changed the family name to de Lemos, believing that he was related to the Count de Lemos (1576–1622), patron of Miguel de Cervantes. Much of his work was influenced by traditional Japanese woodblock printing and the Arts and Crafts Movement. He became prominent in the field of art education, and he designed several unusual buildings in Palo Alto and Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.....
In 1911 he began teaching decorative design at the San Francisco Institute of Art.[8] In late 1912 he was one of the founders the California Society of Etchers, and the following year he started offering the Institute's first classes in printmaking. Some of his students, such as William S. Rice and John W. Winkler (1894-1979), went on to achieve significant fame as printmakers. He helped organize the California print...
Category
1910s Tonalist Art
Materials
Pastel
Dennis Sheehan, "Winter's Warmth", Tonalist Landscape Mountain Tree Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Winter's Warmth", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 12x12 oil painting on canvas featuring a traditional snowy landscape just before dusk. Warm afternoon light surrounds fol...
Category
2010s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dennis Sheehan, "Changing Seasons" 12x12 Autumn Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Changing Seasons", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 12x12 oil painting on canvas featuring a marshy green landscape in hazy autumn light. Changing foliage highlights the trees in colors of rusted reds and ochres, reflecting in the water below.
About the artist:
Dennis Sheehan's work is often described as reminiscent of the great masters of the Barbizon School, in France in the 19th century, and the American Tonalist. Born in Boston in 1950, he has works in major public and private collections, including the White House. His work has been featured in many publications including the featured cover of American Artist.
Dennis Sheehan received his training in the best traditions of the Boston School, studying at the Vesper George School of Art and the Montserrat School of Visual Art. He also studied with two of R.H. Gammell's former students, Robert Cormier...
Category
2010s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Frank Charles Peyraud River Landscape With Boatmen, Drawing
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century charcoal drawing by Swiss artist Frank Charles Peyraud (1858-1948) depicts a river landscape with boatmen.
As a young ma...
Category
19th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Charcoal, Board, Paper
IPSWICH SHANTIES
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ARTHUR WESLEY DOW (American 1857-1922)
IPSWICH SHANTIES ca. 1892
ink wash on paper, 13 7/8 x 11 inches (sheet). Signed lower left “Arthur W Dow”. Ex. co...
Category
1890s Tonalist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Dennis Sheehan, "Across the Marsh", 18x24 Tonalist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Across the Marsh", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 18x24 oil painting on canvas featuring a marshy green landscape at dusk. This moody painting shows tree line at the hori...
Category
2010s Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Tonalist Hills and River
Located in Hillsborough, NC
The technique of American Tonalism is evident in this oil painting on canvas from the early 20th century/late 19th century. Hues of muted greys cre...
Category
20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dennis Sheehan, "Evening Prelude", Moody Sunset Tonalist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Evening Prelude", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 14x18 oil painting on canvas featuring a marshy green landscape at dusk. This moody painting shows tree line at the horiz...
Category
2010s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Indian Encampment
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower left in arrowhead: R.A. Blakelock
(NBI-1611-II)
Category
Late 19th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Nymphs at Dusk', Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, Tonalist Oil, Three Graces, AIC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Emerson' for William C. Emerson (American, 1865-1937) and dated 1910.
Original card board, verso, was additionally signed 'W. C. Emerson' and titled, 'The Dance' (images included were taken prior to lay down).
Displayed in a period, carved and giltwood frame; framed dimensions: 27.75 x 33.75 x 1.5 inches.
Born in London, England, William Emerson...
Category
1910s Tonalist Art
Materials
Cardboard, Oil, Masonite
"Field at Dusk, " Bruce Crane, Tonalist Landscape View in Late Autumn at Dusk
By Bruce Crane
Located in New York, NY
Bruce Crane
Field at Dusk
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
22 x 30 inches
Category
1890s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dennis Sheehan, "August Afternoon", Tonalist Landscape Tree Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "August Afternoon", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 12x12 oil painting on canvas featuring a traditional marshy green landscape just before dusk. Cool afternoon light surro...
Category
2010s Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Stramonia (oil painting monochrome vintage art woman hat portrait earth tones)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...
Category
2010s Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Dennis Sheehan, "Glowing Hedgerow", Moody Tonalist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Glowing Hedgerow", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 18x24 oil painting on canvas featuring a marshy green landscape at dusk. This moody painting shows tree line at the hori...
Category
2010s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumn, 1923
By Bruce Crane
Located in Milford, NH
A splendid Autumn tonalist landscape by American artist Bruce (Robert Bruce) Crane (1857-1937). Crane was born in New York City, and as an artist, was influenced by the French Barbizon school of...
Category
1920s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Last Light, Landscape at Sunset, " William Keith, California Tonalist, Forest
Located in New York, NY
William Keith (1838 - 1911)
Last Light, Landscape at Sunset
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches
Signed lower right
A native of Scotland, William Keith became in the late 19th and early 20th centuries a leading Northern-California landscape artist. In fact, he was so well known that he is referred to as the "Dean of California painters." His romanticized views of nature found much favor among the culturally aspiring citizens of San Francisco and hung in many foyers and dining rooms in their elegant homes. He completed thousands of paintings and drawings, and many of them were lost in his studio in the fire of 1906.
His early works are dramatic mountainscapes in a realistic style adopted from the Dusseldorf School of Germany. The paintings of the last two decades of his life are looser and obviously influenced by his exposure in France to the Barbizon School of landscape painters, who were the first colony of painters to complete paintings "en plein air," or directly from nature rather than in studios. A forerunner of Impressionism, this style also included Tonalism espoused by Barbizon painter Camille Corot [1796-1875] and also apparent in Keith's later works, which are darker, smaller, and much more intimate with emphasis on mood.
Born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Keith came to New York with his family and, apprenticed to a wood engraver. In 1859, he moved to San Francisco where he worked for an engraver and later set up his own engraving business. Studying with Samuel Marsden Brookes in 1863, he determined to become a painter.
He married artist Elizabeth Emerson and did watercolor painting with her guidance. In 1868, he became a full-time painter, and that same year was commissioned to paint scenes along the Columbia River including Mount Hood. By August 1869 he had sold enough paintings to finance an extended journey to the East Coast and Europe including Dusseldorf, Germany throughout most of 1870, studying with Albert Flamm. After a visit to Paris, he expressed great admiration for "the modern school of French landscape painting including the Barbizon School.
During the winter of 1871-1872, the Keiths lived in Boston where they shared a studio with William Hahn. Keith's work received critical acclaim there and in New York at the National Academy of Design.
In 1872, he returned to San Francisco. A friendship with naturalist John Muir exposed Keith to many remote places and in-depth knowledge of nature. During the 1870s, he painted several "epic" eight by ten-foot High Sierra views. He also visited Alaska, and his paintings of Alaska were exhibited upon his return to San Francisco in a show at the Bohemian Club, titled 'Dreams of Alaska'. Keith's Alaska works are significant because they are not close transcriptions of actual scenery, but rather are fantasies inspired by Alaska. They are important as they represent a major break from the documentary tradition in landscape painting of Alaska, as they show an interest in capturing its spirit versus just the topography.
The first wife of William Keith died in 1882, and in 1883, he married Mary McHenry, the first woman graduate of Hastings Law School. They soon went to Europe, and Keith studied portrait painting in Munich with consultations from J. Frank Currier and Carl Marr for two years. Keith then settled for the remainder of his life in Berkeley, California, at 2207 Atherton Street. His studio was in San Francisco where he commuted daily, painted prolifically, and taught many classes, mostly for aspiring female artists .
In 1891, he shared his studio for several weeks with East Coast Tonalist George Inness, Sr. [1825-1894]. Both men painted in a similar style and were followers of the mystical teachings of Swedenborg. Among the locations where Inness and Keith painted together were Monterey and Yosemite, and it was reported they discussed art from every possible angle. Under Inness' influence, Keith painted more than ever in a Barbizon-influenced vein with many sunset and twilight scenes.
By the early 1900s, Keith was likely one of the wealthiest artists in the United States and certainly earned the most money of any California-based artist. People from all over the world sought out his studio where it was said that he would specially select a painting for a client from behind a black velvet curtain...
Category
Late 19th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Dennis Sheehan, "Mid Fall" 12x12 Tonalist Tree Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Mid Fall", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 12x12 oil painting on canvas featuring a daytime landscape setting during autumn. Tree leaves are deep reds, purple, oranges an...
Category
2010s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Verdant Summer Landscape, " Olive Parker Black, Tonalism, Female Artist Stream
Located in New York, NY
Olive Parker Black (1868 - 1948)
Verdant Summer Landscape
Oil on canvas
20 x 30 inches
Signed lower left
An accomplished landscape painter, Olive Black ...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tonalist Painting Sunset Figures Wheat Barbizon Framed 19th Century Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
An antique oil painting in its original ornate gold leaf frame.
This tonalist painting depicts figures against a dramatic sunset.
The work is signed illegibly lower left. It ap...
Category
1860s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Mount Rockwell, Glacier National Park, Montana, " Mountain Lake Landscape View
Located in New York, NY
Charles Warren Eaton (1857 – 1937)
The Shadow of Mount Rockwell, Glacier National Park, Montana, 1921
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches
Signed lower right: CHAS WARREN EATON.
Provenance:
The artist
The Macbeth Gallery, New York
Private Collection
Sotheby's New York, American Art, April 14, 1989
ConocoPhillips, Houston
Simpson Galleries, Houston, Fine Art & Antiques, May 18, 2019, Lot 447
Exhibited:
New York, The Macbeth Gallery, Paintings of Glacier National Park by Charles Warren Eaton, December 13, 1921 - January 2, 1922, no. 2.
Literature:
"Two Exhibitions at Macbeth's," American Art News, New York, Vol. XX, No. 10, December 17, 1921.
A contemporary critic wrote that the paintings of Charles Warren Eaton appeal to “the dreamers who find in them the undiscovered scenes in which their fancy long has dwelt.” Eaton’s contemplative landscapes exude a spiritual quality that moves the observer into a similar frame of mind. He loved to depict the ethereal light of dawn and dusk in late autumn or winter, usually without any reference to human or animal figures or buildings. These Tonalist paintings, with their subdued palette and relatively intimate scale, marked a definite break with the fading popularity of the panoramic and romantic views of the Hudson River School painters.
Charles Warren Eaton was born in Albany, New York to a family of limited means. He began painting while working in a dry-goods store. At age 22, he enrolled at the National Academy of Design in New York City and then studied figure painting at the Art Students League. By 1886, he was successful enough to quit his day job and make a living as a landscape painter. That year, he traveled to Europe with fellow Tonalist painters Leonard Ochtman and Ben Foster. In France, Eaton visited popular artist’s spots such as Paris, Fontainebleau and Grez-sur-Loing, and fell in love with the loose brushwork and moody style of French Barbizon painting.
Returning to the United States, Eaton fell under the spell of George Inness, the foremost exponent of Barbizon style in the United States. In 1888, Eaton settled near Inness in Bloomfield, New Jersey, where Eaton lived until his death in 1937. In this period, he painted shadowy and ambiguous landscapes inspired by rural scenery in the northeastern United States. His signature theme was a cropped view of the branches, trunks, and foliage of a pine grove silhouetted against a delicately illuminated sunset or moonlit sky. He painted this vision so often between 1900 and 1910 that he picked up the sobriquet ‘‘The Pine Tree Painter.”
After 1910, Eaton responded to the popularity of Impressionism by using brighter colors and painting sunlit daytime scenes. In 1921, he was hired to paint Glacier Lake, in Glacier National Park by the Great Northern Railroad Company as part of their ‘See America First’ campaign. He produced more than 20 paintings, among the artist's last works, that now poignantly remind viewers of the vast disappearing glaciers. Eaton tended to approach this mountain scenery from an oblique vantage point; he liked to capture small episodes, showing mountaintops nearly obscured by dramatically attenuated screens of fir trees.
Eaton, like many Tonalist artists of his generation such as Henry Ward Ranger, John Francis Murphy, and Charles Melville Dewey...
Category
1920s Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
River Landscape, Autumn
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower left: W MERRITT POST
Category
20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil
New York City Street Scene at Night
By Frederick (Frank) Usher De Voll
Located in Milford, NH
A wonderful tonalist cityscape of New York City at night by American impressionist artist Frederick (Frank) Usher De Voll (1873-1941). De Voll was born i...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Seashore, Dawn
By Leon Dabo
Located in Lawrence, NY
Leon Dabo (1865-1960) enjoyed widespread acclaim in a career that stretched nearly a century. He was one of the primary students of Whistler and his work was a “virtual international style by 1910." He was an artist "who created works of decorative and spiritual abstraction that became icons of their age.” (David Cleveland, A History of American Tonalism...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil
Le Vesle
By Leon Dabo
Located in Lawrence, NY
Oil on canvas. Estate of the artist.
Leon Dabo (1865-1960) enjoyed widespread acclaim in a career that stretched nearly a century. He was one of the primary students of Whistler and his work was a “virtual international style by 1910." He was an artist "who created works of decorative and spiritual abstraction that became icons of their age.” (David Cleveland, A History of American Tonalism...
Category
1930s Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil
Slagheaps, Silesia - Graphic Black and White Landscape, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
SLAGHEAPS I, CZERWIONKA, 1978
Unframed Silver Gelatin Print, framing options available
44 x 29 cm/ 17.3 x 11.5 inches approx.
From an Edition of 15 + 2 APs, Printed 2005, Hand printed in the traditional darkroom by the Artist (Michał Cała).
Series: Silesia
Signed and dated 2005 in pencil on verso
Shipping: The print would be shipped flat in the print box.
‘I've been photographing workers’ housing, mines and ironworks but the giant slagheaps and the surrounding landscape were always the most surreal subjects for me. The geometric forms of the slagheaps and the contours of the drying sediments created an amazing array of abstract forms. This particular image - Slagheaps I, Czerwionka - won the grand prix at the Polish Landscape...
Category
1970s Tonalist Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Woodstock After the Rain
By Leon Dabo
Located in Lawrence, NY
This is an early work showing the mist still in the air after the rain has fallen. It is nearly abstract in its affect and describes what Dabo was, arguably, best known for: evanes...
Category
1910s Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil
The Mirror of the Woods-Painting by Charles Melville Dewey-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Mirror of the woods is an original painting realized by Charles Melville Dewey, in the early 20th Century.
Mixed colored oil painting on ca...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil
Late 19th Century Tonalist Landscape -- Afternoon by the Pond
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous tonalist oil painting woman walking in field by pond with home in background by Willis Seaver Adams (American, 1844-1921), circa 1880. Trees and an amazing sky in the background add depth and interest to this beautiful piece. Signed "W. S. Adams" lower right corner. Condition: Previous restoration includes relining of canvas. Frame is vintage gilt molded and wood frame and shows previous repair of molding losses. Image size: 20"H x 24"W.
Willis Seaver Adams was known for his landscapes of the Connecticut River Valley. A relative recluse for much of his artistic life, his loneliness can be seen in much of his works. Oil miniatures were the focus for almost all of his later works. He is credited with over 425 oils, watercolors, and drawings.
Willis Seaver was born in 1844 on a farm in Suffield, near the Connecticut River. He intermittently attended the Suffield Academy, and always wanted to be a painter. A wealthy doctor became his patron, and financed his studies in 1868 at the Royal Academy in Antwerp. When the doctor passed away, Adams returned home and struggled to make a living painting. After working for a photographer for three years, he opened his own studio.
Adams helped organize Clevelands first watercolor exhibit in 1876. Soon thereafter, he completed a portrait of Rutherford B. Hayes, then governor of Ohio, prior to his becoming President of the United States. This portrait enhanced Adams notoriety.
In 1878, Adams traveled to Italy where he opened a studio in Venice, and became friendly with neighbor James Whistler. Prior to returning to Springfield, Adams lived in Florence, Italy for three years. He returned to became an instructor for the Springfield Art Association, and began to exhibit his works at the galleries of James D. Gill. His first one-man exhibit was held there in 1894. Other successful exhibitions took place in Chicago, New York, and Boston. Although his works garnered respectable prices and reflected his success, Adams felt he was due more recognition.
In 1906, he moved to Greenfield, Massachusetts and converted a barn into a studio. There, he fell into relative obscurity, accompanied mainly by his dog, Collie. In 1921, Adams passed away.
Examples of Willis Adams works can be seen at the Kent Memorial Library, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and the Suffield Academy. Several Suffield residents are thought to own Adams paintings.
Category
1880s Tonalist Art
Materials
Oil, Linen
"Spring Landscape Along the Stream, " Hugh Bolton Jones, Antique Tonalist Scene
By Hugh Bolton Jones
Located in New York, NY
Hugh Bolton Jones (1848 - 1927)
Spring Landscape Along the Stream
Oil on canvas
22 x 30 inches
Signed lower right
A Baltimore, Maryland native, Hugh...
Category
Late 19th Century Tonalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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