A Foggy Day on the Hudson, 1913

Provenance

The Artist
Estate of the above
Private collection, Florida, by descent from above
Private collection, Atlanta, Georgia
Private collection, New York
Sale, Christie’s, New York, New York, December 2, 1998, lot 72, from above
Private collection, New York, acquired from above
Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, New York, acquired from above, 2002
Private collection, acquired from above, 2002
Sale, Christie’s, New York, New York, October 18, 2024, lot 27, from above

Literature

Recent Acquisitions, Spring-Summer 2002 (New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2002), 13.

Related Works

Hudson River by Twilight, 1913, oil on canvas, 26 ⅛ x 36 ⅛ inches, signed lower right: Edmund Greacen / 1913; Newark Museum, New Jersey

The Garden, 1913, oil on board, 15 ½ x 11 ½ inches, signed lower right: Edmund Greacen; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware

Note

Edmund William Greacen is best known for his luminous depictions of New York City, rendered with an Impressionist sensibility. After studying with William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) and spending his formative years in Giverny, France, near the home of Claude Monet, Greacen returned to the United States. In New York, he found a subject as evocative as the sunlit pastoral scenes of Giverny—the city’s shifting atmosphere and nuanced moods.[1] His work from this period captures the vitality and dynamism of early 20th-century urban life, securing his place within the broader narrative of American Impressionism.

[1] Edmund W. Greacen, N.A.: American Impressionist 1876-1949 (Florida: The Cummer Gallery of Art, 1972), 9-10.