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1836 New York City - 1899 Alameda County, California. Known for: Idealized landscape, Indian life, and marine painting.
Born in New York City in 1836, Ransome Holdredge came to California via the Isthmus of Panama in 1858 and worked as a draftsman at the Mare Island Naval Yard. His paintings of the 1860s and early... Read full biography
Born in New York City in 1836, Ransome Holdredge came to California via the Isthmus of Panama in 1858 and worked as a draftsman at the Mare Island Naval Yard. His paintings of the 1860s and early 1870s were signed "Holdridge" and were done in the realistic style of the Hudson River School. During... Read full biography
Born in New York City in 1836, Ransome Holdredge came to California via the Isthmus of Panama in 1858 and worked as a draftsman at the Mare Island Naval Yard. His paintings of the 1860s and early 1870s were signed "Holdridge" and were done in the realistic style of the Hudson River School. During this period he maintained a studio in San Francisco's Donahoe-Kelly Bank Bldg and exhibited locally. In 1874 he and Hiram Bloomer held a joint sale of their paintings to finance European studies. He... Read full biography
Born in New York City in 1836, Ransome Holdredge came to California via the Isthmus of Panama in 1858 and worked as a draftsman at the Mare Island Naval Yard. His paintings of the 1860s and early 1870s were signed "Holdridge" and were done in the realistic style of the Hudson River School. During this period he maintained a studio in San Francisco's Donahoe-Kelly Bank Bldg and exhibited locally. In 1874 he and Hiram Bloomer held a joint sale of their paintings to finance European studies. He left in that year and spent about two years studying in France. His obituary states that he was a field artist for Scribner's publications and was with Major Reno's troops at the time of the Custer massacre in 1876. After his studies in France, he... Read full biography
Born in New York City in 1836, Ransome Holdredge came to California via the Isthmus of Panama in 1858 and worked as a draftsman at the Mare Island Naval Yard. His paintings of the 1860s and early 1870s were signed "Holdridge" and were done in the realistic style of the Hudson River School. During this period he maintained a studio in San Francisco's Donahoe-Kelly Bank Bldg and exhibited locally. In 1874 he and Hiram Bloomer held a joint sale of their paintings to finance European studies. He left in that year and spent about two years studying in France. His obituary states that he was a field artist for Scribner's publications and was with Major Reno's troops at the time of the Custer massacre in 1876. After his studies in France, he returned to San Francisco with a distinctly different style. Paintings done after th. Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940". California... Read full biography
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Keywords (51)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Itinerant Artist
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
- •Barbizon School of Painting
- •Hudson River School
- •Impressionism Before 1940
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Barnyard Fowl, Chickens, Poultry, Roosters
- •Birds, Ornithology, Avian Art
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Indians, Native American Specialty
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape
- •Landscape with Cattle, Sheep or Other Farm Animals
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Romanticism, Idealism, Nostalgia
- •Street Scenes, Street Genre
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
- •Wildlife, Wild Animal
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Barbizon, France
- •California Before 1940
- •Colorado Before 1900
- •Colorado Rocky Mountains
- •Europe
- •Hudson River Valley, New York
- •Lake Tahoe, California
- •Minnesota, Upper Mississippi Before 1900
- •Missouri River Valley Before 1900
- •Mount Hood
- •Northern California Before 1900
- •Pacific Northwest Before 1900
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •Rocky Mountain School of Painting
Art Association
- •Bohemian Club
- •San Francisco Art Association-
Chronology
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •C. R. Smith Collection-Western
- •Carl S. Dentzel Collection
Added Description
- •Marine Before 1900
- •SCRIBNER'S Magazine Illustrator and/or Photographer
- •Self Taught, Autodidact
- •Western Subject Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
- •San Francisco Art Association