Once Great but now Forgotten: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painters: With Actual and Current Equivalent Auction Prices, 1946-2015 - Paperback

by Robert L. Lewis (Author)

Brief biographies of selected 19th century American landscape painters with discussions of their artistic stylyes. Auction price histories of their work from 1946 to 2015 with prices also shown in current 2015 dollar prices to give collectors some idea of changes in price in current dollars. Each article has footnotes and a bibliography to enhance further independent research. Artists included are - Thomas Doughty, Worthington Whittredge, Jervis McEntee, Henry Ward Ranger, John Francis Murphy, Bruce Crane and Eliot Candee Clark. There are also images of each artists paintings to enhance understanding of the artist. It is the author's hope that this book will bring these artists to the attention of the collecting public and provide some guidance as to pricing and value.

Author Biography

The author is a retired attorney who went back to undergraduate and graduate school in art history. This was done to gain additional insight and understanding in furthering his knowledge of 19th century American landscape paintings. The author's first book, Art as Investment: An Anthology of Academic Research Papers from the past 100 Years, brings into historical context the current discussion as to art as a suitable alternative asset. His second book, Three Wounded Champions of American Tonalism is within the same context of this book and highlights the life and work of Ralph Albert Blakelock, Alexander Helwig Wyant and Homer Dodge Martin. It contains the auction prices from 1946 - 2015 with adjusted current prices. As an accidental art dealer in 19th century American paintings, the author has been surprises, on numerous occasions, with the lack of basic knowledge which the average collector and enthusiast has on the subject.