"Bonfire"
Type:Painting
Year:Circa 1920
Size:19.00" x 20.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
William Langson Lathrop ART FOR SALE
1859 Warren, Illinois - 1938 Montauk Point, New York. Known for: Impressionist and tonalist landscape and coastal view painting, graphics.
The founder of the New Hope Pennsylvania Impressionist Colony, he was known as one of America's premier landscape painters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His style was Tonalist, which... Read full biography
The founder of the New Hope Pennsylvania Impressionist Colony, he was known as one of America's premier landscape painters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His style was Tonalist, which coincided with Impressionism but was not plein air nor focused on light, sunny colors. He was not... Read full biography
The founder of the New Hope Pennsylvania Impressionist Colony, he was known as one of America's premier landscape painters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His style was Tonalist, which coincided with Impressionism but was not plein air nor focused on light, sunny colors. He was not innovative in style, but much admired for the strength and skillfully conveyed mood of his canvases. He avoided formula painting because he wanted to keep his work alive and spontaneous. He was born in... Read full biography
The founder of the New Hope Pennsylvania Impressionist Colony, he was known as one of America's premier landscape painters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His style was Tonalist, which coincided with Impressionism but was not plein air nor focused on light, sunny colors. He was not innovative in style, but much admired for the strength and skillfully conveyed mood of his canvases. He avoided formula painting because he wanted to keep his work alive and spontaneous. He was born in Warren, Illinois, and raised on a farm in Painesville, Ohio near Cleveland His father was a doctor and his mother was Irish and a lover of the arts. As a boy, he did much carving from the local clay and bought his first paint at age twelve. He sent... Read full biography
The founder of the New Hope Pennsylvania Impressionist Colony, he was known as one of America's premier landscape painters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His style was Tonalist, which coincided with Impressionism but was not plein air nor focused on light, sunny colors. He was not innovative in style, but much admired for the strength and skillfully conveyed mood of his canvases. He avoided formula painting because he wanted to keep his work alive and spontaneous. He was born in Warren, Illinois, and raised on a farm in Painesville, Ohio near Cleveland His father was a doctor and his mother was Irish and a lover of the arts. As a boy, he did much carving from the local clay and bought his first paint at age twelve. He sent drawings and sketches to New York City editors, and received an art department job offer from Charles Parsons, edi... Read full biography
William Langson Lathrop - Art for Sale (3 available)
"Bright Afternoon, Keyport"
Type:Painting
Size:16.00" x 20.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Unsigned
Notes:
William Langson Lathrop (1859 - 1938)
"Sand Harbor"
Type:Painting
Size:25.00" x 30.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
A calming coastal view depiction by the "father of the New Hope artist colony", William Langston Lathrop (1859-1938). It is signed lower right and titled on verso.