Art of the White Mountains
with Mount Washington
Eight Paintings Gallery
Mount Washington
George L. Noyes (1864-1954), American-Canadian
Oil on panel, 14" x 12" (w x h)
Auction sold: $7,500
George Loftus Noyes was a Canadian born artist who gained fame in the early 20th century as an American Impressionist. He was born in Bothwell, Ontario and died in Peterborough, New Hampshire. His parents were both American citizens.
He was a prominent member of the Boston School of American Impressionism. In 1901, George Loftus Noyes taught during the summer in Annisquam, Massachusetts, and became an early teacher to Newell Convers Wyeth, father of Andrew. N.C Wyeth also studied with Noyes in 1921, saying "His color knowledge is superb and I think he will give me much help at this juncture." Noyes primarily worked and painted at the Fenway Studios on 30 Ipswich Street in Boston.
New Hampshire Mountains
Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), American
Oil on Masonite, 36" x 30" (w x h), 1930
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Marsden Hartley, born in Lewiston, Maine, had a miserable childhood. His mother died when he was eight. At fifteen, after working in a shoe factory for a year, he left Maine for Cleveland, Ohio, where he joined his sisters. His birth name was Edmund Hartley but, in his twenties, he assumed Marsden as his first name after his step-mother, Martha Marsden, when he was in his early twenties.
He returned to Maine from 1900 to 1910, Hartley spent his summers in Lewiston and the region of Western Maine near and the village of Lovell. He considered the paintings he produced there--of Kezar Lake, the hillsides, and mountains--his first mature works. These paintings so impressed New York photographer and art promoter Alfred Stieglitz that he agreed on the spot to give Hartley had his first solo exhibition at Stieglitz's art gallery 291 in 1909. Hartley then traveled and painted in Europe, connecting with some of the influential artists of the day, spending the next years between the US and Europe.
In 1930 Marsden Hartley spent the summer and fall painting mountains in New Hampshire.
Sketch, New Hampshire
Lawren Stewart Harris, (1885-1970), Canadian
Oil on board, 46" x 38" (w x h), 1935
Heffel fine art auction, Canada, Sold
Lawren Stewart Harris was a Canadian painter, born in Brantford, Ontario. He is best known as a member of the Group of Seven who asserted a distinct national identity combined with a common heritage stemming from early modernism in Europe in the early twentieth century. A. Y. Jackson has been quoted as saying that Harris provided the stimulus for the Group of Seven. During the 1920s, Harris' works became more abstract and simplified, especially his stark landscapes of the Canadian north and Arctic. In the 1930s, He stopped signing, titling and dating his works so that people would judge his works on their own merit and not by the artist or when they were painted.
The White Mountains, Randolph, N. H.
William Zorach (1889-1966), American
Watercolor and pencil on paper, 14" x 11" (w x h), 1915
Smithsonian American Art Museum
William Zorach was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and writer. He won the Logan Medal of the arts. He's notable for being at the forefront of American artists embracing cubism, as well as for his sculpture. He is the husband of Marguerite Thompson Zorach and father of Dahlov Ipcar, both artists in their own right.
Freedom Has No Speed
Rebecca Klementovich (1969- ), American
2014
The artist's website is HERE.
Rebecca Klementovich lived in New York City for twenty years before moving to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. In 1992, she earned a Bachelor in Fine Arts at the Fashion Institute of Technology with additional studies at Cooper Union and the Arts Student League in New York City. She's exhibited throughout New York, Maine and New Hampshire. She lived in northern New Hampshire near the Mount Washington area for many years and now lives near Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
View from Glen House, NH
Joseph Meierhans (1890-1981), Swiss-American
Watercolor on paper, 21" x 15" (w x h), 1931
Snyder Fine Art, New York
Auction estimate: $700-900
Joseph Meierhans divided his time between Bucks County, Pennsylvania and New York City. He exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Society of Independent Artists, the Salons of America, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Provincetown Art Association, American Federation of Artists Traveling Exchange, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Tokyo (1956), and the Crest Gallery, New Hope (solo 1958).
Mount Washington (6,286ft)
John Marin (1870-1953), American
Watercolor and graphite on paper, 19" x14" (w x h), 1924
Skinner 2012 auction, Boston, MA, sold: $36,750 USD
John Marin started his career in art later in life, graduating from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1901 at the age of 30. In 1905, he traveled to Europe, lived in Paris (1905-1909) where he developed his signature watercolor technique and met the artist, Edward Steichen, who introduced his work to the photographer Alfred Stieglitz. It was Alfred Stieglitz who mounted Marin's first solo show in 1909, and financially supported the artist over the remainder of his career.
First Snow Mount Washington
Charles H. Woodbury (1864-1940), American
Watercolor on paper, 22" x 18" (w x h), 1936
Private collection
Charles Woodbury was one of the most sought-after teachers of his generation, having begun teaching on a regular basis while a freshman at M.I.T. Ironically, he had little formal training himself other than a few months of classes at the Academy Julian in Paris. Nevertheless, Woodbury maintained a close friendship with John Singer Sargent and a pleasant acquaintance with many of his contemporaries including J. Alden Weir and Childe Hassam. He was president of the Boston Watercolor Society, and became associate of the National Academy of Design, New York in 1906 and a full member in 1907. His wife, Marcia Oakes Woodbury, born in 1865 at South Berwick, Maine, also was as a painter. She died at the age of 49 in 1913. In 1928 he founded (along with Gertrude Fiske and other Ogunquit, Maine area artists) the Ogunquit Art Association.
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