Hudson River Art Auction Ending 2/25

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Framed "New York Bay" View C&I hand-colored litho. Artist was "F. F. Palmer." Fannie Palmer was the famous female artist/lithographer for Currier & Ives. The early reverse painted glass mat is cracked see multiple images for details. 14.5" x 18.25" overall

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19thC framed, matted and under glass colored French lithograph titled "Haverstraw or Warren Landing." A wonderful, rare View at Haverstraw Bay on the Hudson River. Note This is the same engraved View as Lot 43. However the coloring is different because of the hand coloring done at the time. Which one do you like better? Please see multiple images for details. 15.25" x 18.5" overall

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AskArt Bio: Frances (''Fanny'') Flora Bond Palmer (l812-1876) was one of the premier artists for Currier & Ives, the most famous publishers of lithographic prints in mid-nineteenth century America. She is generally regarded as the leading American woman lithographer of her time. Born in Leicester, England, the daughter of an attorney, she received an excellent education at a school for girls in Leicester, run by Mary Linwood (herself a well-known stitchery artist). After marrying Edmund Seymour Palmer in l832 and bearing a daughter and son, she and her husband opened a lithography business in Leicester around l842 under the company name ''F. & S. Palmer''. Fanny was the principal artist and lithographer, and Edmund was primarily the printer, although he may have done some lithography as well. The Palmers immigrated to the United States late in l843, settling in New York City, where they continued to produce a great variety of lithographs for other publishers, as well as in their own name. Around l849, after they moved to Brooklyn, Nathaniel Currier hired Mrs. Palmer as a staff artist and Mr. Palmer dropped out of the business. He died in l857 from a fall downstairs, attributed by colleagues and friends to alcoholism. From that time forward Fanny remained the principal support of her children, granddaughter and sister Maria Bond. ''F. F. Palmer'' became one of the most prolific artists at Currier & Ives, producing more than two-hundred prints portraying a wide range of subjects, including farm and suburban scenes, sporting and marine prints, still life, literary subjects, panoramic views of steamboats, railroad trains, the Civil War, and the westward movement. A large body of work bearing her name was entirely original; drawn or painted and lithographed by her as well. In some cases they were signed ''from nature and on stone'', indicating that they were taken directly from on-site sketches. However, lithography was a commercial operation and the versatile artist, adept at every aspect of her trade, was assigned a varying role. Sometimes she originated the drawing or painting and other lithographers transferred it onto stone. At other times she lithographed or adapted the work of other artists and printmakers. In those cases the original artist's name was usually indicated on the print, and she was listed as ''F. F. Palmer, lith.''. As in film, television and advertising today, lithography was often a collaborative effort, and Palmer provided backgrounds and landscapes to which other artists at the company added the figures. Currier's partner, James Ives, seems to have played a role in the conception or lithographing of some of her later prints; his name appears on them along with hers. Fanny Palmer's prints were, and still remain, among the most popular images issued by Currier & Ives. In her day they hung on the walls of thousands of homes and businesses, and have been reproduced on calendars, cards and prints ever since. Some have become national icons, embodying the dreams and aspirations of the expanding young United States.

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19thC Framed, matted under glass hand colored William H. Bartlett (1800-1854) engraving by artist "R. Wallis" titled "Peekskill Landing (Hudson River)." Small folio. Note: the craft of hand coloring was done by trained women in the 19thC. They were compensated one penny for each engraving, which was considered good work at the time. There are no two hand colored engravings that are identical. sometimes the artists used different colors on figures. Example: Check out Lot 47, the same Peekskill View, compare the colors of the clothing of the figures in the lower right corner of the prints. They have totally different colored clothing. Please see multiple images for details. 11.25" x 12.75" overall

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19thC Framed, matted under glass hand colored William H. Bartlett (1800-1854) engraving by artist "R. Wallis" titled "View From Fort Putnam (Hudson River)." Small folio. Note: the craft of hand coloring was done by trained women in the 19thC. They were compensated one penny for each engraving, which was considered good work at the time. There are no two hand colored engravings that are identical. sometimes the artists used different colors on figures. Please see multiple images for details. 11" x 12.75" overall

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19thC Framed, matted under glass hand colored William H. Bartlett (1800-1854) engraving by artist "R. Wallis" titled "The Palisades-Hudson River." Small folio. Note: the craft of hand coloring was done by trained women in the 19thC. They were compensated one penny for each engraving, which was considered good work at the time. There are no two hand colored engravings that are identical. sometimes the artists used different colors on figures. Please see multiple images for details. 11" x 12.75" overall

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19thC Framed, matted under glass colored engraving. Please see multiple images for details. 13.25" x 16" overall

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19thC Framed, matted under glass colored engraving. Please see multiple images for details.13.25" x 16" overall

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Books and catalogs pertaining to the Hudson River School of Art and local Hudson Valley history. Please review the twenty images, and, or, stop by to Preview these books and any of the art by appointment at the Absolute Auction Center 45 South Ave. Pleasant Valley, NY 12569. Call 845-635-3169 to make an appointment to visit between 9am-4pm, Monday-Friday. Have fun and enjoy art!

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Framed Horace Wolcott Robbins (1842-1904) oil on canvas with original embossed frame. This Autumnal View appears to be of Constitution Island on the narrowest point of the Hudson River at West Point. This is where the chain stretched across the Hudson during the Revolutionary War to prevent the British from going up the Hudson River. Painting measures 7.5" x 11.5", and overall is 14.5" x 18.5". AskArt Bio: Landscape painter, Horace Wolcott Robbins Jr., depicted mountain and lake scenery of the Adirondacks in New York and also in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.  His favorite medium was watercolor, although he also painted in oils. Close painting associates were William Hart, Frederick Church, and Worthington Whittredge. Robbins was born in Mobile, Alabama, went to Baltimore with his family at the age of six, and later studied at Newton University in Baltimore.  He moved to New York City after college, studied under James M. Hart in 1859, and then opened his own studio in 1860.  In 1864, he accompanied Frederick E. Church to the West Indies, Jamaica, and Europe.  He studied in England, Paris, and Switzerland for three years, after which he returned to New York in 1867.  Robbins had a studio in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York State near the studio of William M. Hart.  He spent many summers in Connecticut at Simsbury and Farmington.  Titles of his paintings reflect his wide travels:  Blue Hills of Jamaica (1874); Passing Shower, Jamaica (1875); Harbor Islands, Lake George (1878); Lake Katahdin, Maine (1882); and Early Autumn, Adirondacks (1883).  He was elected an Associate of the Academy of Design in 1864, Academician in 1878, and in 1882, he became recording secretary.  He was also a member of the American Watercolor Society; the New York Etching Club; the Artists' Fund Society, which he served as president during 1885-1887; the Century Association in 1863.  He was a trustee of the New York School of Applied Design for Women, a fellow with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a member of the Century and Lambs Clubs. Exhibition venues included National Academy of Design (1863-1894), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1862-1864), Boston Art Association, and the Brooklyn Art Association (1862-1883).   In 1890 he studied law at Columbia and was admitted to the bar in 1902.  His last known address was New York City. ( Highest recorded auction price$51,750.)