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The Trout Pool
By Worthington Whittredge
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
Collection of Mrs. Victor R. Bieber, Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
Born in Ohio, Worthington Thomas Whittredge began his career as a sign and portrait painter in Cincinnati, wher...
Category
1870s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pittsburgh Steel Mills at Night
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
Spanierman Gallery, New York;
Private collection, Pennsylvania
Pioneer industrial landscapist Aaron Harry Gorson, born in 1872, came to the United States in 1890 from his...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lull in Summer Rain
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
Kennedy Galleries, New York;
DC Moore Gallery, New York;
Private collection, Ireland, until 2012
Exhibitions
New York, DC Moore Gallery, Charles Burchfield Paintings, 19...
Category
1910s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Winter Birches
By Jonas Lie
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
Private collection;
Christie's, Fine American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, New York, March 9, 2007, lot 120
A fine example of Jonas Lie's mature artistic style, Wi...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Seated Nude
By Irving Ramsey Wiles
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
Private collection, St. Petersburg, Florida;
Arthur and Holly Magill, Greenville, South Carolina, acquired from the above;
Sotheby’s, New York, 30 November 2000, lot 11, s...
Category
Late 19th Century Aesthetic Movement Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Low Tide
By William Edward Norton
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
The artist;
Florence Norton, the artist's daughter;
By descent in the family
Born in 1843 to a family of Bostonian shipbuilders, William Edward Norton's early childhood i...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New England Farmhouse
By Robert Swain Gifford
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
The artist;
By descent in the family to the artist's great-grandaughter, until 2023
Born on a small island near Martha's Vineyard, R. Swain Gifford and his family moved t...
Category
Late 19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Maples in Autumn Foliage
By John Marin
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
John Marin’s long and prolific career is best marked by his fervent love of painting and abiding belief that art must relate to lived experiences. His best work strikes a delicate ba...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Figure with Guitar II
By Henry Fitch Taylor
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York;
Collection of Jeptha H. Wade and Emily Vanderbilt Wade, Boston, until 2025
Exhibitions
Cleveland Museum of Art, Art for Collectors, 1971...
Category
1910s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
T-Wharf in Winter
By Arthur Clifton Goodwin
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
Bonhams Skinner - Malborough, March 8, 1991, lot 226;
Private collection, Pennsylvania, until 2022
A painter especially known for street and waterfront scenes of Boston, ...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Nude
By Arthur Beecher Carles
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
The artist;
Collection of Walter Stuempfig, Philadelphia;
Private collection, Massachusetts until 2022
The Philadelphia modernist Arthur B. Carles was a brilliant coloris...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bubbles
By John Koch
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
Private collection, New Jersey;
Thomas Colville Fine Art, Guilford, Connecticut;
Private collection, Connecticut, until present
John Koch’s portraits of New York high soc...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Silhouette of a Young Girl
By John White Alexander
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
Grand Central Art Galleries, New York;
Samuel B. and Marion W. Lawrence Collection;
Christie's, Important American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, November 29, 2007, l...
Category
Late 19th Century Aesthetic Movement Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Italy Goes to War
By Arthur Dove
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
An American Place, New York;
World House Galleries, New York, 1953;
Private collection, New York;
Betty Krulik Fine Art, 2007;
Avery Galleries until present
Exhibitions
An American Place, New York, Exhibition of New Arthur G. Dove Paintings...
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Elsa
By Daniel Garber
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Elsa, 1915
Charcoal on paper, 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: Daniel Garber / 1915
Provenance
The artist;
Estate of the artist, 1958;
Tanis Garber Page,...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Irises
By John Henry Twachtman
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
Milch Galleries, New York;
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Biggs, Middleton, Delaware (by 1983);
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York;
Ira and Nancy Koger (acquired from the above, 1984);
Pri...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor
Parisian Fountain, 1899
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Albert Jean Adolphe was known as a decorator, a portrait painter, and a landscape artist. He worked in oil and watercolor. Born in Philadelphia in 1865, he attended the Pennsylvania ...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Sunflowers 1
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Peter Rudolph was born in New York in 1946. He received a BFA from the Tyler School of Art and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Peter taught at the Germantown Friends Scho...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Poppies
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Peter was born in New York in 1946. He received a BFA from the Tyler School of Art and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Peter taught at the Germantown Friends School in Ph...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flowers in a Greenhouse
By Theodore Wendel
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Wendel was born in Midway, Ohio, and trained at the McMicken School of Design where he met and befriended Joseph DeCamp. Together, the two artists traveled to Munich in 1878 to study...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunflowers, 2, 2024
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Peter Rudolph was born in New York in 1946. He received a BFA from the Tyler School of Art and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Peter taught a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
View of the City Investing Building and Singer Tower from Cortlandt Street, NY
By George Herbert Macrum
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Specializing in New York City's vibrant urban landscapes and surrounding harbors, George Herbert Macrum (1878–1970) captured the essence of the city’s architectural grandeur and dyna...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Study St. Malo
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
The Artist;
Charles Prendergast (acquired from the above in 1924);
Mrs. Charles Prendergast (thence by descent from theabove in 1948);
Kraushaar Galleries, New York;
Mr...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Rocks and Sea
By Robert Swain Gifford
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Born on a small island near Martha's Vineyard, R. Swain Gifford and his family moved to the New Bedford, Massachusetts, area when he was two years old. The Dutch marine painter Alber...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Daniel Ricketson House, New Bedford
By Robert Swain Gifford
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Born on a small island near Martha's Vineyard, R. Swain Gifford and his family moved to the New Bedford, Massachusetts, area when he was two years old. The Dutch marine painter Alber...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Yosemite Valley No. 1 (sketch)
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
One of the high points in James David Smillie’s career came when he was commissioned to travel to California to both write and illustrate a chapter on the Yosemite Valley for William...
Category
1870s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Provincetown Seaside Landscape
By John Whorf
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
John Whorf was born in Boston in 1903. His father, Harry Whorf, was an artist and graphic designer. When John decided at a young age to become an artist himself, his father provided ...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sailors and Mermaids
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Ralph Cahoon Jr.'s whimsical paintings are not only lighthearted and charming, they are also the hallmark of his creativity and imagination. His playful approach to painting and info...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Boats at Dock
By Hugh Henry Breckenridge
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Hugh Henry Breckenridge was a colorist, a seminal figure in Philadelphia’s Modernist circles, and an influential and beloved teacher. Like many artists of his generation, he experime...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life
By John White Alexander
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
John White Alexander's graceful depictions of beautiful women earned him critical acclaim both in Europe and America. However, his career did not get off to an easy start—Alexander b...
Category
1880s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bars of Light
By Walter Launt Palmer
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Walter Launt Palmer is best known as “the painter of the American Winter.” In Bars of Light, the cool areas of shade haphazardly crisscross and then blanket the warm sunlight on the ...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Early View of Stockton, New Jersey
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Kenneth Nunamaker never took a formal art lesson. His “training” began during his travels out West as a young man, where he painted in his spare time. It continued informally through...
Category
1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Spring Hillside
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Spring Hillside exemplifies Nunamaker's ability to capture seasonal nuances of light and atmosphere. His simple composition of two buildings on a hillside is elevated by the delicate...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Waiting
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Excerpted from The Painter's Journey: The Art of William S. Robinson, The Cooley Gallery
Born in East Gloucester, Massachusetts, William S. Robinson became a talented and successful...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Window Sill
By Stephen Scott Young
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This still life by Stephen Scott Young stands out in the artist’s oeuvre in that Young is most known for his luminous portraits of African Americans or native Bahamians. Nonetheless,...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sketch for Post Office Mural in Short Hills, New Jersey
By Ernest Lawson
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Ernest Lawson is an artist who defies easy categorization. His work exhibits characteristics of both Impressionism and realism. In fact, he studied with the American Impressionists, ...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Glade, 2009
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Oil on canvas
52 x 36 inches (132.1 x 91.4 cm)
Framed dimensions: 53 1/4 x 37 1/4 in
Dated and inscribed on verso: 2009/42
Provenance
Morrison Gallery, Kent, CT;
Private collection,...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Evening Landscape
By Robert Swain Gifford
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Born on a small island near Martha's Vineyard, R. Swain Gifford and his family moved to the New Bedford, Massachusetts, area when he was two years old. The Dutch marine painter Alber...
Category
1880s Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Beach Scene (Coney Island)
By Martha Walter
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Beach Scene (Coney Island) is a fine example of Martha Walter’s light-hearted, colorful harbor and beach scenes, for which she became best known. Her ability to capture the animation...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
French Scene at Voulangis
By Arthur Beecher Carles
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
The Philadelphia modernist Arthur B. Carles was a brilliant colorist and an extraordinarily innovative painter. Though Carles trained initially at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fin...
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Floral Still Life
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Alfred Maurer was born in 1868 in New York City, the son of Louis Maurer, a commercial artist for Currier and Ives. He worked in the family lithographic business as a young man and a...
Category
20th Century American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache
New York Scene, Chatham Square
By Colin Campbell Cooper
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Colin Campbell Cooper is perhaps best known for his marvelous urban depictions of New York and Philadelphia, which encapsulate the vibrant modernity of these street scenes and skyscr...
Category
1910s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Still Life
By Earl Horter
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Best known as an impassioned supporter and avid collector of modern art, Earl Horter was also an artist himself. Largely self-taught, Horter was a highly skilled draftsman and engrav...
Category
1930s American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Woman with Red Sash
By Philip Leslie Hale
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
An influential critic, writer and teacher, Philip Leslie Hale was an American Impressionist with an experimental, avant-garde approach to painting. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of author Edward Everett Hale and the younger brother of artist Ellen Day Hale, Philip was raised in a lively intellectual atmosphere. He probably received his first artistic training from his paternal aunt Susan Hale, after which he entered the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School under Edmund Tarbell, an American Impressionist painter who greatly influenced Hale’s style. A year later in 1884, the young artist moved to New York City, where he enrolled at the Art Students League and studied under Kenyon Cox and J. Alden Weir. There, his fellow students included Theodore Butler and William Howard “Peggy” Hart.
In 1887, Hale traveled to Paris with Theodore Butler and Susan Hale, where he furthered his artistic training at Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian. During this first year, he studied with Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, Gustave Boulanger and Henri Lucien Doucet...
Category
1890s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Village Path, Italy
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Anna Richards Brewster is the daughter of the great marine painter William Trost Richards. Her father's reputation always precedes her own; however, Anna was an accomplished artist i...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Before the Regatta
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Antonio Martino's work is a prominent example of the long tradition of realistic painting and instruction in Philadelphia. Painted towards the end of his long career, Before the Rega...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Along the Path
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Stanley Reckless's formal art training began at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1913. He studied with Daniel Garber and was greatly influenced by his teacher's lyrical a...
Category
Early 20th Century Other Art Style Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
House in New Hope
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Stanley Reckless's formal art training began at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1913. He studied with Daniel Garber and was greatly influenced by his teacher's lyrical a...
Category
Early 20th Century Other Art Style Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Landscape Sketch
By Hugh Henry Breckenridge
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Hugh Breckenridge’s artistic training began at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1887. The academic precision and attention to detail that mark his portraits and still lif...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Still Life with Robert Laurent Sculpture
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Born in New York City, modernist painter Adelaide Lawson Gaylor studied at the Art Students League and with Kenneth Hayes Miller. She was a member of the Society of Independent Artists, the Salons of America, and the New York Society of Women Artists. She was married to artist Wood Gaylor...
Category
1920s American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Star Island, Isles of Shoals
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Star Island, Isles of Shoals is a fine example of Warren Sheppard’s great love and respect for the sea. As an expert navigator and yachtsman, Sheppard had a deep reverence for the oc...
Category
1880s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Grez-sur-Loing
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
The dark and smokey palette of Grez-sur-Loing reflects the influence of the French Barbizon School on Winkworth Allan Gay's painting style. It seems reasonable to assume that he pain...
Category
Late 19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Stillness
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
A native of Philadelphia, John Pierce Barnes began his artistic training at the Philadelphia School of Industrial Design. He then attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Troubled Water
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
A native of Philadelphia, John Pierce Barnes began his artistic training at the Philadelphia School of Industrial Design. He then attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Dream of Jacob
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Diego H. Rodriguez Carrion (Diego Hiromi) was born on July 26, 1995 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Diego studied at the Atelier San Juan under the guidance of artists Luis Borrero and Amb...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Roses and Chrysanthemums in a Vase
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
An expatriate painter, noted for figurative paintings of peasants as well as classical works, Biblical scenes, mythological subjects, and still lifes, William Babcock was born in Bos...
Category
1870s Victorian Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Diario, 3 de agosto de 2016
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Frank Mujica was born on December the 20th, 1985 in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. He studied at the San Alejandro Academy of fine Arts from 2000 to 2004 and at the Superior Institute of Art I...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Venetian Terrace
By Luther E. Van Gorder
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Born in Warren, Ohio, Luther Emerson Van Gorder was one of the most distinguished painters of the Toledo area during the late nineteenth and ...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tim's Birthday Bouquet, April 10
By Susan Headley van Campen
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Susan Van Campen’s plein-air oil paintings are painted with the confident brushwork of a watercolorist, achieving bold impressions of Maine’s landscapes. Her small impressions captur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
In Venice
By Charles Webster Hawthorne
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Like his mentor the great American Impressionist William Merritt Chase, Charles Webster Hawthorne was equally admired in his own day as both a talented painter and a highly influential instructor. Hawthorne first studied with Chase at his Shinnecock Summer School of Art, which was specifically dedicated to open-air landscape painting. Not only did Hawthorne quickly absorb all the principles of Chase’s instruction, but he also became determined to found his own school based on the same model. In 1899 Hawthorne discovered the small fishing village of Provincetown on the furthermost tip of Cape Cod, and after purchasing a large house on Miller Hill, he opened the Cape Cod School of Art, which proved to be an immediate success.
While Hawthorne’s own approach as a teacher owed much to Chase, he developed a distinctly unique painting style and teaching method that defies easy categorization. He was greatly impressed with the work of Franz Hals, which he was exposed to during his trip to Holland in the summer of 1898. Hawthorne was particularly struck by Hals’ Regentesses of the Old Men’s Almhouse, and from this work he absorbed a deep appreciation for the power of human expression and an economy of technique. Hawthorne applied these lessons to his own realistic portraits of Provincetown fishermen and their families; these works have a somber, almost melancholy quality to them, and they reveal a sense of the vulnerability of the human condition.
Stylistically, Hawthorne maintained a life-long commitment to the importance of color. “Beauty in art,” he said, “is the delicious notes of color one against the other.” Of equal importance to him was capturing the effects of light. He told his students: “Everything in painting is a matter of silhouettes. Hold light against shadow, not light against light.” He developed a particular technique of layering glazes and texturing the surface of his paintings, which heightens the relationship between the colors and creates a light effect that seems to emanate from within the painting. These stylistic techniques in combination with his straightforward compositions of one or more figures shown at close range create the hallmarks of Hawthorne’s best paintings.
Hawthorne and his wife Ethel’s 1905-1907 trip to Italy did not result in a drastic impact on his artistic style. Nonetheless, it proved to be a transformative and enlightening voyage. The extensive trip was financed by collectors who paid in advance for a painting to be produced abroad. On the trip, Hawthorne explored the work of old masters and was struck particularly by the paintings of Titian, which to Hawthorne, demonstrated the master’s true adoration for the act of painting itself through his handling of paint and color. Where Titian’s paintings...
Category
Early 1900s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
