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THBGeorge H. Smillie O/C Sunet River Landscape
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4310 Papermill Dr. NW
Knoxville, TN 37909
United States
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LiveJan 25, 2025
Live Auction at our Knoxville Gallery featuring 1,200+ lots from fine Southern estates and private and museum collections. Sale begins Sat. Jan. 25 at 9 AM with lots #1-783 and continues Sun. Jan. 26 at 1 PM with lots #784-1261 (separate catalog). Estates represented include Gertrude S. Caldwell, Nashville; John Z. C. Thomas, Knoxville; Dr. Larry Wolfe, Nashville; Norman Luboff; plus the collection of Jon E. Jones, Cookeville, and deaccessioned art from the Hunter Museum, Vanderbilt University Museum, the Memphis-Brooks Museum, and more. Case Auctions bid@caseantiques.com
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- Lot Description
George Henry Smillie (New York, 1840-1921) Hudson River style river landscape painting with several small boats moored in a calm river beside a farm or homestead and under a pink and yellow sky, 1904. A crescent moon hangs in the sky and on the distant, opposite shore stands a small house. Signed and inscribed "Copyright 1904 by / Geo. H. Smillie N.A.," lower left. Housed in an ornate giltwood frame. Sight: 15 1/2" H x 23 1/4" W. Framed: 27 1/2" H x 35 1/2" W. Biographical note: "At the age of twenty Smillie received his first art lessons from his father, James Smillie, an eminent steel engraver. Shortly thereafter, he studied landscape painting briefly with James MacDougal Hart. In 1862 he opened a studio in New York City and exhibited for the first time at the National Academy of Design, where he was elected an associate in 1864. Smillie spent most of his professional life in New York, but sketched for several summers in the White Mountains and in the Adirondacks. In 1871, he sketched in the Rockies and Yosemite Valley, and in 1874 in Florida. In 1881 he married Nellie Sheldon Jacobs, formerly a pupil of his older brother, James D. Smillie, with whom the couple subsequently shared a studio in New York. In 1885 George Smillie and his wife made an extended tour of Europe. He was elected an academician of the National Academy of Design in 1882 and served as recording secretary from 1892 to 1902. He was also an early member, and later an officer, of the American Water Color Society. A member of one of the most active and influential families in the art circles of New York City, George Smillie was acquainted at an early age with his father's many engraved translations from such American landscapists as Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, and Jasper Cropsey. Quite naturally then, he was able to embrace a wide range of landscape subjects, from quiet New England meadows to bold mountain passages and rocky coastlines. His most popular subject matter, however, was to be found in the interior and along the shores of Long Island." (Source: Peter Bermingham, AMERICAN ART IN THE BARBIZON MOOD [Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1975])
Condition
Repaired tear with retouching to upper right quadrant in sky encompassing 8 1/4" x 3" area. See U/V photograph. Canvas has been wax lined. Craquelure to thicker areas of pigment in sky near horizon. Otherwise very good condition.
- Provenance
The collection of Jon E. Jones, Cookeville, TN.
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