Near Staffords Island, Gulf Coast

Provenance

Private collection
Sale, Christie’s, New York, New York, December 2, 2009, lot 51
Questroyal Fine Art, New York, New York, from above
Private collection, Micanopy, Florida, from above

Exhibited

Auslew Gallery, Norfolk, Virginia, Herman Herzog, 1832-1932: American Landscape Painter

Literature

Auslew Gallery, Herman Herzog, 1832-1932, American Landscape Painter, exh. cat. (Auslew Gallery, 197-), 18, no. 471.

Related Works

Sunset Near Low Creek, Florida, c. 1900, oil on canvas, 29½ x 24½ inches, signed lower right: H Herzog; Harn Museum of Art, The Florida Art Collection

Note

American art historian and Herzog scholar Donald S. Lewis Jr. describes Herzog’s Florida paintings as evidence of the artist’s “remarkable powers of observation,” noting that Herzog “invented a visual description that compares with the atmospheric conditions, the light, and the special coloration of the area’s unique natural environment.” According to Lewis, these works most fully demonstrate Herzog’s mastery in capturing the distinctive qualities of light.[1]

[1] Donald S. Lewis Jr., American Paintings of Herman Herzog (Brandywine River Museum, 1992), 8.