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Henry Ward Ranger
Connecticut Landscape
oil/panel 12 x 16 image size 21 3/8 x 25 3/8 x 2 3/4 framed
A wonderful example of Rangers painting style of glazes and areas of impasto textures throughout housed in an original frame that shows some wear but shows well. No signs of repair or restoration.
With Rangers style of using glazes, etc., it is very difficult to get exact colors in the photos as digital cameras read thru time but the photos re close and representative of this painting.
The back has cardboard with hand written notes as seen in the photos which I kept even though the actual board underneath, also pictured, has a typed version of the notes on a label.
All of the original hardware is still attached but I added securing clips and new hanger and wires to help with the weight as pictured. Fairly heavy for its size.
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Henry Ward Ranger (January 29, 1858 – November 7, 1916) was an American artist. Born in western New York State, he was a prominent landscape and marine painter, an important Tonalist, and the leader of the Old Lyme Art Colony. Ranger became a National Academician (1906), and a member of the American Water Color Society. Among his paintings are, Top of the Hill, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and East River Idyll, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[1]
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Henry Ward Ranger
American, 1858–1916
By 1914, Henry Ward Ranger was known as the leader of the “Tonal School” in American art circles. A habitué of the artist colony at Old Lyme, Connecticut, he later moved up the coast to the remote fishing town of Noank where he was inspired by abandoned farms and ancient oaks: the “civilized landscape”, as George Inness described it. Of all the major Tonalists, Ranger maintained a lingering allegiance to Barbizon models of paint handling and the Dutch tradition of landscape painting. But after 1900, he developed a freer and more vigorous personal style that allowed him to explore the American landscape with a new intimacy, employing James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s design principles of cropping and emphasis on subtle patterns. Ranger’s paint surfaces have a mosaic-like quality, glittering darkly—especially when the ground of the canvas or panel is allowed to show through the pigment, a nod to the veils of glazing the artist so admired in Venetian painting.
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Referred to as “the dean of the American landscape” by the New York Times in 1916, Henry Ward Ranger was one of the country’s most important Tonalists. Born in Syracuse, New York, Ranger developed his soft, atmospheric style after studying art in France and Holland. The young artist was deeply influenced by the moody, tonal landscape paintings of the Barbizon and Dutch Schools and began painting forest interiors in the Tonalist manner. He exhibited extensively at prestigious venues including the National Academy of Design, the Brooklyn Art Association, the Boston Art Club, and the Paris Salon, and won medals at the Paris Exposition of 1900, the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1902, and the American Artist Society’s 1907 show. Yet Ranger was most famous as one of the founders of the Old Lyme art colony in Connecticut, where he began painting in the late 1890s. The colony became “an American version of Barbizon” during the height of the Tonalist movement and maintained a vital artistic presence throughout the twentieth century. Ranger’s paintings are now featured in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The Florence Griswold Museum held a Ranger retrospective in 1999, which generated renewed interest in his work.
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I have been in the art business as an artist and dealer since the early 80's. Almost 40 years now. I primarily concentrate on my own art. My art is derived in a variety of ways. I'm a responder. I respond to light, color, design, etc. and I love painting both outdoors on location and in the studio under a controlled environment. I try to convey an idea, mood or just simply a beautiful setting. I'm inspired by a wide variety of subject matter and styles of painting and do not adhere to just one way.
My paintings have won numerous awards over the years and have been collected both nationally and internationally. They can be found in three museum collections, the White House Collection and many private collections.
- Creator:Henry Ward Ranger (1858 - 1916, American)
- Creation Year:circa 1900
- Dimensions:Height: 21.38 in (54.31 cm)Width: 25.38 in (64.47 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Chesterfield, NJ
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1254113614002
Henry Ward Ranger
A key person in the establishment of the Old Lyme, Connecticut art colony in 1899, Henry Ward Ranger is regarded as the leader of the Tonalist movement in America and was a leading painter in this country in the late 19th and early 20th-centuries. He was born in Geneseo and raised in Syracuse, New York, and in 1873, enrolled in the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University, where his father was a professor of photography and drawing. Two years later, he became a re-toucher of paintings in his father's studio and did not earn a college degree. He also spent much time in New York City, where he was a writer of music criticism and visited galleries, where he had his first exposure to French Barbizon painting. During much of the 1880s, he painted watercolors of marine subjects, and exhibited those in New York City, Boston, and Paris. As a student in France, he became greatly interested in the Barbizon School of painters, and then a trip to The Hague, Holland, was even more influential when he met a large colony of Dutch painters called "The Hague School", whose emphasis was on Realism and Tonalism. Their soft, Atmospheric and Tonalist style of sombre colors seemed to suit him. However, his soft colors later became a special problem for anyone trying to restore his paintings as it was difficult to distinguish original color from soil on canvases. He did his sketches "en plein air" but finished his paintings in his studio. In 1885, Ranger moved to New York City and took up easel painting increasingly favoring oils over watercolors. In 1892, he had a one-man exhibition at the Knoedler Galleries in New York City. Many of his works in that show were forest interiors and tree studies. Gradually his palette lightened with color and luminosity suggesting the influence of George Inness. In the summer of 1899, Ranger discovered Florence Griswold's boardinghouse in Old Lyme, Connecticut, and he returned in the summer of 1900. With his influence and the friendship of Florence Griswold, he became the leader of the artists' colony of Old Lyme, "an American version of Barbizon" for three years. However, the prevalent style changed to Impressionism with the 1903 arrival of Childe Hassam. He became disenchanted with painting at Old Lyme with the arrival of Childe Hassam in 1903 and the subsequent influence of his Impressionist style. In protest of the plein-air, fast painting, and lightened palette and abstraction of these Impressionists, Ranger, in 1905, moved farther down the coast to Noank, Connecticut near the Mystic River. Like many of his associates, he also maintained a studio in New York City where he was very prominent and often lectured and wrote about art and took an active part in the art community. He was a member of the National Academy of Design and the National Arts Club, and he wrote articles about art that were published.
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