Since then New England has
provoked the American Revolution, seen virgin forests yield
to the plow, helped ignite the Industrial revolution, and
all of this has been captured on canvas by artists of the
Hudson River School, the American Impressionists and in a
more intimate form by the Boston School, as well as by other
more recent artists of quality. We hope you enjoy these
selections as they are but the tip of the proverbial
Iceberg!
This exhibition includes works by:
Carolyn M.
Bell, “Smith Cove, Gloucester, MA,”
E. C.
Coates,“View of Mount Tom and the Connecticut River,”
Jesse
Talbot, “Vermont Scenery,”
J.W. Bell, “Echo Lake, NH,”
Leon
Foster Jones, “Summertime, NH, 1909,”
George
Mitchell, “Low Tide, Long Point Lighthouse, Provincetown, MA,”
William Chadwick, “Old Lyme,”
Wilson
Irvine, “Old Lyme in Winter,”
Arthur Cohen, “Pilgrims Monument, Provincetown, MA,”
Albert
P. Buttons, “A Cape Cod Windmill,”
Wilton
Lockwood, “Interior Scene,”
Walter Clark, “Connecticut Landscape,” George L. Noyes, “Mount
Monadnock, NH,”
Horace Brown, “Scene near Springfield, Vermont,”
Hal
Robinson, “Farmington River, CT,” and many more.
Highlights include the Leon Foster Jones, a divisionist type of
broken brushwork canvas depicting a bridge in New Hampshire with a
stream below glittering in the sunlight. In theme and composition it
closely relates to a painting in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
by the same artist, also from 1909, titled, “Suncook River, New
Hampshire.”
Another
painting of note is a large oil/canvas by E. C. Coates, “View of
Mount Tom on the Connecticut River.” Coates was a member of the
Hudson River School and is well thought of enough to be included in
the following museums: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; the New
York Historical society, NY; Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, Meade Art
Museum, Amherst, MA; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT and
the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT.
A last
note is the painting by Thomas Hill, “Old Man of the Mountain,
Franconia Notch, NH.” This image shows the iconographic New
Hampshire state landmark that vanished in a landslide in the spring
of 2003. Hill is best known for his landscapes of Yosemite,
California, which populate many museums out west, but his earlier
works of New Hampshire, painted in a manner reminiscent of Thomas
Cole, have a certain primeval charm to them as well. Full
color high resolution photos of most of these works can be seen
on-line at the website:
http://woodburyantiquesfineart.com
The exhibition runs
from January 11, 2008 through February 24, 2008, with the Opening
Reception on January 12, 2008, from 12pm to 5pm. Woodbury Antiques
and Fine Art is located at 473 Main Street South, Woodbury, CT
06798. The telephone number is (203)266.4753. All inquiries are
welcome.
