Edmund Darch Lewis - 16" x 20" Luminist Oil Painting

Description: Edmund Darch Lewis (American, 1835 - 1910) This oil on panel of a mountain lake measures 16" x 20" or in the period gold gilt frame dimensions of 19-1/4" x 23-1/4" and is signed lower left, Edmond D. Lewis. This painting was purchased many years ago from an elderly gentleman in Pennsylvania who had the painting in his family since the late 1800s and said that his family were the original owners and purchasers of the painting. He also mentioned that he was the one who inscribed the artists name and date of 1890 on the label verso and asked me to excuse his shacky handwriting as he was well into his late eighties. The painting of sailboats on a mountain lake in early autumn is indicative of Lewis’ work later on in his career. A renowned Realist landscape and seascape painter considered one of the Luminist painters in the Hudson River School, his paintings exhibited a lively luminescence of light, color and atmosphere making this atmospheric Luminist painting a quintessential example of his work. Kenneth Dean Fine Art Galleryhttps://www.facebook.com/kennethdeanfineart Biography: Edmund Darch Lewis was born in Philadelphia, the son of a prominent businessman. According to family tradition, he was educated at a private school and studied painting with the German-born landscapist Paul Weber (1823–1916). He first exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1854, where he was elected an associate in 1859 and a full academician in 1862. He also exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum from 1858 to 1869 and the National Academy of Design in New York in 1860. Lewis never married and lived a comfortable existence with his parents up to the age of fifty. This freedom from bed and board allowed him to travel and paint extensively throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, where he found an abondance of landscape, river, and lake scenes. He often visited the White Mountains, where he was inspired by the hills, woodlands, rivers, and lakes. He eventually turned away from landscapes in the late 1870’s/early 1880’s, traveling extensively throughout New England to concentrate on painting marine and coastal scenes. Lewis’ paintings were easily distinguishable due to their luminous quality and his lively use of light and color. His paintings became avidly collected by Philadelphia art patrons, and by the early 1880s, he had amassed a fortune. With this financial success, Lewis was able to devote the last thirty years of his life to amassing a huge collection of fine and decorative arts. It was during this time when Lewis lost interest in oil painting and the quality of his work in that medium declined noticeably. Lewis’ late work consists primarily of watercolors that he painted for his own pleasure. Although not as technically outstanding, his watercolors were also admired for their luminosity (Luminism), and Lewis continued to generate canvases in mass production style. Edmund Darch Lewis died in Philadelphia on August 12, 1910. A little about the Frost & Adams Academy Board: Frost & Adams was an artists' supply firm in Boston, Massachusetts, located in Cornhill, on the current site of Boston City Hall and City Hall Plaza. The business was established in 1869 when artist Francis Seth Frost and retailer E.H. Adams bought the business of Matthew J. Whipple. By the 1880s Frost & Adams were the chief dealers in artists' materials in the New England area… stocking all the materials needed by painters, engravers, etchers, repousse-workers, china-painters, crayon artists, water colorists, tapestry-painters, architects, engineers, and draftsmen. During the late 19th century and into the early 20th century, Frost & Adams was the supplier of choice for many of the most famous New England artists of the time. Sometime after 1921, Frost & Adams was bought by the H.H. Sullivan Company, which itself was acquired by B.L. Makepeace Inc. in 1931. As of 2010, Makepeace operates from headquarters in Brighton, Massachusetts, and specializes in reprographics and survey equipment. In 2019, the Frost & Adams brand was revived, updated, and once again commercially available to whole new generations of artists.

Price: 6250 USD

Location: Dubuque, Iowa

End Time: 2025-01-31T22:29:43.000Z

Shipping Cost: 85 USD