Description: Beautiful! Very early Hudson River School landscape featuring a mill pond and a man canoeing to his home. Dynamically composed, the contrast of light areas to the Northeast casting shadows behind the trees and the right hand side of the home is extraordinary. The confident handling of the paint along the shoreline with the rocks and sand and also of the water cascading over the edge of the dam reflects an accomplished hand. Touchingly, on the right hand side, you can see the homeowner's laundry drying on a line. This is quite typical of this artist's paintings depicting normal American life. Early hints of what's to come with George Caleb Bingham and other painters can clearly be seen, particularly in the way the man in the canoe is composed. He often used figures, including the ones way in the distance to give a sense of scale to the landscape. William Wall was based in New York. However, he did exhibit in Pennsylvania, so it is possible this painting depicts a scene from either New York, New Jersey or Pennsylvania. While he mainly did watercolors, he did several well-known oil paintings, one of which hangs in the Honolulu museum and others scattered around the tri-state area in different museums. He is considered one of the forerunners of the Hudson River School and was a contemporary of Thomas Cole and Thomas Doughty. Signed lower left WG Wall, 1840 ( in pink/salmon) Canvas is marked William (W) E. Rogers 16 arcade Philadelphia. This maker also supplied canvases for Thomas Doughty. Canvas measures 23.5 by 16.5 Overall size 32.75x 25.75 in. Frame is 2.25 in deep Professionally conserved with CUSTOM deep cove Hudson River School style gilt bole & gesso frame. The framing and conservation was done by the Pennsylvania conservatory which is still in business. Condition is good. Unfortunately, there are a couple of small tears and some minor paint loss towards the center of the painting. These could be addressed by a conservator but it will look great even with without taking these into account. Will be professionally packed and shipped with tracking insurance within three (3) business days. Following payment. Signature will be required upon delivery. (Local pickup is also available for free from our Hackettstown New Jersey location which is one in one half hours west of New York City and one and half hours Northeast of Philadelphia.)
Price: 5435.25 USD
Location: Hackettstown, New Jersey
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Type: Painting
Year of Production: 1840
Framing: Framed
Subject: Landscape
