SOLD Landscape, 1871

by Samuel Colman (1832–1920)

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Watercolor and pencil on paper
7⅜ x 13½ inches
Signed and dated lower right: Samuel. Colman. / ’71

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Provenance

Private collection, Virginia

Sale, Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, June 21, 2015, lot 63591, from above

Private collection, Worcester, Massachusetts

Artist Biography

This gifted second-generation member of the Hudson River School was instrumental in pioneering the American watercolor and etching movements during the nineteenth-century.

By Chelsea DeLay

I. Biography
II. Chronology
III. Collections
IV. Exhibitions
V. Memberships
VI. Notes
VII. Suggested Resources

I. Biography

Samuel Colman was born in Portland, Maine, in 1832, and moved to New York with his family when he was a young child. His father, a well-known bookseller and an established dealer of fine engravings, had a clientele of artists and authors that provided an