Lot 129
Thomas Worth-ing-ton Whittredge (American, 1820-1910), "Landscape Near Newport", oil on artists board, Alexander Galleries, New York, label en verso, 13 1/8 in. x 18 3/4 in., in a period frame. E5000- 7000 Note: Though uninscribed, this important painting clearly relates to a series of domestic landscapes with distant ocean views and similar diagonal motifs of fences, walls, or bushes, painted ( mainly in the years 1877-1881) in the environs of Newport and Cape Ann where Whittredge - whose ancestors came from Rhode Island - had purchased a summer home, after his return from ten years in Europe ( 1849-1859), and three journeys of exploration in the American West ( 1866, 1870, 1871). His large Continental painting of "The Roman Campagna" (c. 1856-1859, 26 in. x 40 in.) already adumbrated this compositional structure; but his Rhode Island paintings of this same size and type ("Freshwater Pond in Summer", "Fields at Tiverton," and "Fields Near Newport", all approximately 14 in. x 22 in., and mostly of early 1880s) are still more closely related to this painting. The scene may possibly be the same, from the other side of the fence, as that depicted in Whittredge's masterly "Farm by the Shore" (11 « in. x 22 in.), sold at Sotheby's, New York, March 17, 1994 (lot 9).
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