An antique Hudson River School oil painting from the 19th century by American artist Norton Bush, featuring a distant boat sailing underneath a brilliant tropical sunrise. Oil on canvas, housed in a period frame. Signed. Image size, 10L x 14H. Known primarily for his tropical views of South and Central America, Norton Bush was also one of the West Coast\'s earliest landscape painters, especially of Sierra Nevada mountain scenes. He arrived in 1853 and established a studio in San Francisco, and remained there excepting for a few years in Sacramento and several trips to Latin America.Norton Bush was born in Rochester, New York and took his first art instruction from James Harris, a local artist. He also studied with Jasper Cropsey in New York City and associated with Frederic Church, both Hudson River School painters whose style continued to influence Bush. Many of his paintings were done with the goal of inspiring the viewer with the overwhelming aspects of nature and the diminished relative position of human beings.

Painting has been lined. Some touch up. Heavy craquelure as photographed.

21 x 17 x 3 in