Belle Hoffman Oil Painting on Board "Stormy Skies"

Item Details

An oil painting on board titled Stormy Skies by listed Ohio artist Belle Hoffman (American; 1889-1961). This landscape painting depicts a valley at the foothills for a mountain range. The sky is rendered with dark rolling storm clouds. This piece is signed to the lower left corner and it is stated to be from the artist estate. To the verso, is a descriptive gallery label and a plaque with the artist name and life dates is present to the frame. Presented without glass in a gilt frame with cove molding.

Hoffman, was born in 1889 in Garretsville, Ohio, schooled by painter and founding member of the Pennsylvania Impressionists, Henry Snell (1858 – 1943), in Gloucester, Massachusetts and trained by notable portrait Impressionist painter Charles W. Hawthorne (1872 – 1930) at Provincetown Cape School Of Art. After spending her summer in Gloucester and being deeply influenced by mentor Henry Snell, she presented her first exhibition of post-impressionist paintings at The Gage Gallery located in Cleveland, Ohio where she situated her studio and created outstanding plein air landscapes, coastal scenes, carnival genre and still lifes, constructed in a vibrant palette. In the late course of her life, she lived in Chautauqua County, New York, where she created superb still lifes and farmscapes.

Condition

- minor scuffs to the frame.

Dimensions

- measures in the frame; board size approximately: 14" W x 10" H.

Item #

17DCC044-321