Fine 19th C American Landscape Oil Painting Artist: Roswell Morse Shurtleff (1838-1915) Size: 30'' X 40'' In Excellent Condition Contemporary Gilt Wood Frame. The artist: Roswell Morse Shurtleff was born in Rindge, New Hampshire and he died in NYC Addresses Were: Buffalo, N.Y. 1858-1859, Boston, 1860, NYC 1860-61, Hartford, Conn. 1869-75, then again NYC 1875-1915. Profession: Landscape And Animal Painter, Illustrator, Lithographer. He studied at Dartmouth College prior to 1857, Lowell Inst., Boston, 1858-59 Nad, 1860. Exhibited: NAD, 1872-190; Brooklyn AA, 1874-1886, Boston AC, 1877-1908, Pafa ann., 1881, 1888; Aic, 1888-1914; Pan-am Expo, Buffalo, 1902 (Medal); St. Louis Expo, 1904 (Medal); Awcs, 1910 (Prize); Corcoran Galleries Biennials, 1907-1912 (4 times) Member: Ana, 1880; NA 1890; Awcs; Sc, 18888; AQrtists Fund Soc.; Lotos Club. Work Adirondack Museum; CGA; NGa; MMA. Shurtleff Was An Architect''s Assistant in Manchester, N.H. in 1857; worked for lithographer in Buffalo, N.Y. in 1858-1859 and next moved to Boston where he drew for the engraver John Andrew. In 1860-1861 he worked in NYC as a magazine illustrator. He volunteered for service in 1861, was wounded in July and spent eight months in a southern prison. He returned to NYC and his work as a magazine illustrator. Married in 1867 and settled in Hartford, Conn. but began spending his summers in the adirondacks, at Keene Valley, N.Y. It was here that Shurtleff devoted himself to oil painting and took up the subject for which he became best known for forest interiors. He and John Lee Fitch were responsible for drawing a large group of other artist to the Keene Valley Region, including Winslow Homer, Alexander Wyant, James David Smillie, And Julian Alden Weir ( who built a studio on the lot next to Shurtleff)). contributed two western illustrations for beyond the mississippi. This biography is drawn from the ''Who was who in American Art'', the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.

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