Birge (Lovell Birge) Harrison ART FOR SALE

Artwork by Birge (Lovell Birge) Harrison

1854 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1929 Woodstock, New York. Known for: Tonalist landscape, snowscene and Indian pueblo painting.

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Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Birge Harrison has been described as one of America's leading tonalist painters. His specialties became moonlit landscapes, pueblos, and Indian genre, but unlike many of his Impressionist contemporaries, who liked to paint "en plein air," he painted from memory and preferred a muted palette. He was one of the first generation of painters and teachers in the Woodstock, New York art colony, which under his influence became a center of Tonalist-style painting. He also became a part of the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, affiliated with the Arts and Crafts Movement. In the 1880s, he did illustrations for Scribner's, magazine, which sent him on travels around the world. He first enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy... Read full biography

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Moonrise in Charleston Harbor

Type:Painting

Size:25.25" x 30.25"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Lower Left

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Provenance Private collection; Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., New York; Sterling Regal Collection, New York; Sotheby's, New York, May 25, 1988, lot 28; Private collection; Christie's, New York, January 23, 2026, Collector/Connoisseur: The Max N. Berry Collections; American Art Day Sale, lot 316

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