Medium: Oil On Board
Size: 20" x 27 1/2"
Frame Size: 23 1/2" x 31"
Condition: Great, No Blemishes
Signature: lower right

Charles Warren Eaton (1857 - 1937) was active/lived in New York, New Jersey / Netherlands. Charles Eaton is known for Tonalist landscape painting-trees.

Charles Eaton resided in Bloomfield, New Jersey for fifty years at 63 Monroe Place and maintained a studio at this residence. His New York studio was located at 9 West 17th Street. He never married and retired at the age of 70, and did not paint at all during the last 10 years of his life. He died in 1937 at Mountainside Hospital, Montclair, New Jersey (the adjoining town).

His physician, whom I knew personally, was Dr. Rudy Fager. He told me an interesting story about when he opened his practice in Montclair in 1933. Soon after Mr. Eaton chose him as his physician. At his introduction with Dr. Fager he shyly told him that his waiting room was too bare and had nothing hanging on the four walls. He said that he is a painter and would like to bring him four of this paintings to be hung on each wall and in a few months he would return to find out which one his liked best as a gift. On his return Dr. Fager told him that he liked all of them. Mr. Eaton graciously gifted him all four of the paintings.

Mr. Eaton was buried in Bloomfield Cemetery located on Belleville Avenue. A very simple small granite monument marks his resting place (which I visited).

I purchased in 1965 my first Eaton, The Belgian Farm, 1902, 20x30 for $200.00. During my perusal in the Montclair Art Museum library, I discovered an interesting letter addressed to the museum dated February 2, 1964 from Priscilla D. Polkinghorn. Her grandfather, Samuel Foster, and Mr. Eaton were life-long friends and when Mr. Eaton died, he left his entire estate to Priscilla, which included the home and several-hundred of his paintings. She was in the process of arranging a memorial exhibition at the museum. She also stated in this letter that she had a considerable number of his paintings for sale. Of course, I immediately contacted her and purchased two of them still unframed as Eaton had left them ($ 75.00 --- $ 150.00 respectively !!)

With the recent increasing rediscovery of Eaton's works, if I had known it at that time, my purchases would have been much more numerous.

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private collection from Long Island

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