Snowy Landscape at Dusk

Provenance

Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, New York, New York, May 6, 2004, lot 17
Private collection, Santa Barbara, California
Spanierman Gallery, LLC, New York, New York

Related Works

Snow Scene, watercolor and gouache on blue-gray wove paper, 10⅞ x 18¹¹⁄₁₆ inches, signed lower left: BRUCE CRANE; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

New England (Winter), 1926, oil on canvas, 40 x 42 inches, signed lower left: BRUCE CRANE; The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Note

An original member of the Old Lyme artist colony and a leading figure in Tonalism, Bruce Crane sought to infuse the simpler, more intimate aspects of the landscape with deeper meaning, rendering them within an “atmospheric envelope that tended to soften the visual reality to the fineness of an impression.”[1] He was a member of the National Academy of Design and the Society of American Artists. His paintings won many awards, among them a medal at the International Exposition in St. Louis in 1904. His work is included in many museum collections including The Brooklyn Museum, The Fort Worth Art Museum, and the National Gallery of Art

[1] Mary Muir, Bruce Crane: American Tonalist (Lyme Historical Society, Florence Griswold Museum:1984), 25.