Beautiful Henry Ward Ranger oil canvas. 38 x 32 inches. Provenance: private owner.
Biography: 1858 - 1915. Henry Ward Ranger, a leading artist of the Tonalist movement, was responsible for the establishment of the art colony at Old Lyme, Connecticut. Ranger was raised in Geneseo and Syracuse, New York, where his father was a professor of photography and drawing at Syracuse University. Ranger enrolled at the school but left to work in his father's studio.He studied art in France, where he was influenced by the Barbizon School and a group of Dutch painters called "The Hague." Ranger exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Paris Exposition, and had a one-man show at Knoedler's in New York in 1892. He became a successful lecturer and painter, exhibiting at the Brooklyn Art Association, the National Academy, the Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery, and several expositions.In the 1890s he met Florence Griswold and began painting in Old Lyme. Captivated by the area's beauty, he established the American Barbizon School there, which attracted many artists. However, after Childe Hassam joined the colony it became more closely aligned to an American style of Impressionism. Ranger disliked the Impressionists' method of rapid outdoor painting in a light palette; while he sketched out-of-doors, Ranger finished his works in the studio in the traditional academic manner.Soon after Hassam's arrival, Ranger left Old Lyme to start a new colony at Noank, near Mystic on the Connecticut coast. Ranger died in 1916 without family and bequeathed his estate to the National Academy of Design to establish a fund for the acquisition of works by American artists. His own works are represented in many American museums.

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