Description: 7TH ANNUAL SUMMER SALE NOW *Price Shown is the Sale Price ORIGINAL AND VINTAGE .............JOSEPH RUSLING MEEKER.............'CUBA 1872', OIL ON CANVAS, 21" x 36"............ This is a 21" x 36" Original and Vintage oil on canvas by the important Louisiana painter Joseph Rusling Meeker, 1827-1887. The image is of a tropical marshland with the sun setting and a boat with figures sailing. Signed at lower left and dated 1872. Titled on the back 'Cuba 1872'. In the original frame. The Biography Follows: A painter of southern landscapes, Joseph Meeker was born in Newark, New Jersey and grew up in Auburn, New York. He received a scholarship to the National Academy of Design in New York City, where he studied with the Hudson River School painter Asher B. Durand and with portraitist Charles Loring Elliott. After studying in New York City, he established a studio in Buffalo, 1849-52. He then moved to Louisville, Kentucky 1852-59, before settling permanently in St. Louis, Missouri, where he painted the Louisiana Bayou. During the Civil War he fulfilled his military duties as a Union Navy paymaster on a gunboat that traveled the Mississippi River. While traveling along the Mississippi River he sketched the bayous and swamps of Louisiana. When Meeker returned to St. Louis, Missouri, he became quite successful as a painter of southern landscapes based on the drawings he did in the military. During the 1870s and 1880s, Meeker worked in the manner of Luminism. "Meeker used light and color to heighten emotional impact and captured the hazy atmosphere light in the swampy environment. Meeker's paintings were influenced by the nineteenth century's waning romanticism and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem about eighteenth-century Acadian exiles, Evangeline." Meeker is best known for his bayou swamp scenes, but he also created landscapes of the New England coast, the Wyoming territories, Minnesota, along the Merrimac River (NH), and also created portraits and did some writing. As ever this is guaranteed 100% money back, to be as represented.
Price: 5500 USD
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
End Time: 2024-10-31T06:03:50.000Z
Shipping Cost: 65 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Artist: Joseph R Meeker
Unit of Sale: Single-Piece Work
Signed By: Artist
Size: Large
Item Length: 36"
Region of Origin: US
Framing: Framed
Personalize: No
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Year of Production: 1872
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Item Height: 21"
Style: Realism
Painting Surface: Canvas
Features: Signed
Unit Quantity: one
Culture: American
Handmade: Yes
Time Period Produced: 1850-1899
Signed: Yes
Period: Historicism (1850-1900)
Title: Cuba 1872
Material: Oil
Certificate of Authenticity (COA): No
Subject: Famous Places
Type: Oil Painting
Signed?: Signed
Production Technique: Oil Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
