1922 James Everett Stuart Oil on Board of Landscape Near Camp Taylor

Item Details

A 1922 oil painting on academy board by listed artist James Everett Stuart (American, 1852-1941). Painted near Camp Taylor, California, this dramatic landscape depicts a cluster of houses on a green hill below a vast sky. The sun is hidden behind a cloud, casting a hazy glow in the center of the composition. It is signed, dated, and numbered 2971 in the bottom left corner. This work is presented unframed with location information inscribed on verso.

Prolific plein air landscape painter James E. Stuart started painting at eight, when his family moved to a ranch near Rio Vista, California. He went on to train with David H. Woods before studying under Raymond Dabb Yelland and Virgil Williams at the San Francisco School of Design. His often moody and dramatic Western landscapes are seen by many as artistic descendants of the French Barbizon school. He is represented in the permanent collections of the Oakland Museum, the Witt Art Library at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, the De Young Museum and the White House.

Condition

- some wear to the exposed edges; areas of paint loss, notably at the top center edge; minor residue to the surface on the left side; yellowing to the varnish.

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Item #

17NYC045-082