$13,035
George Loftus Noyes (American, 1864-1954) Spring Landscape Signed "G. L. Noyes" l.l. Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in. (61.0 x 76.2 cm), framed. Condition: Good. Provenance: From the collection of the Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts. N.B. A Boston school artist best known for his landscapes, George Loftus Noyes¹ plein air paintings adopted the loose brushstrokes of the French Impressionists. Born in Ontario, Noyes moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a child. He started taking painting lessons when he was fifteen from English artist George Bartlett at the Massachusetts Normal School, and had an apprenticeship at the New England Glass Company painting floral designs on glass. He continued his studies in France at the Académie Colarossi with Gustave Courtois, Joseph-Paul Blanc, and Paul-Louis Delance. Noyes returned to the U.S. and set up a studio in Boston, where he painted landscapes of the New England countryside, exhibiting at the Boston Art Club and Boston Society of Water Color Painters. Noyes traveled extensively within the U.S. and to Mexico, often with fellow artist and friend Frederic Edwin Church, and spent time in California (where he taught at Stanford University) and Florida before ultimately returning to New England. Inscribed "Bed Room/off kitchen" in pencil on the reverse, craquelure, overall pigment fluorescence, no apparent issues under UV.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2008-11-14
