Lot 110: Charles Linford, American, Pennsylvania/New Jersey (1846 - 1897), "Forest Landscape," oil on canvas

Charles Linford, American, Pennsylvania/New Jersey (1846 - 1897), "Forest Landscape," oil on canvas, signed lower left, bears a label on the verso from Wunderlich Bros. Gallery in Pittsburgh, measures 18 x 26 inches unframed, 30.50 x 39 inches framed in a massive, period Barbizon frame. CONDITION: Good, slightly dirty, would benefit from a cleaning, small knock to surface at upper right. Born in Pittsburgh, as a young painter he was a member of the "Gillespie Group," which was a loose collection of artists, including George Hetzel, Alfred S. Wall, Joseph R. Woodwell, David Gilmore Blythe and Jasper Lawman. Charles Linford concentrated mainly on landscapes and a majority of Linford's work shows the influence of the French Barbizon painters whom he admired and tended to follow in color and treatment. Specifically, his favorite subject was that of birch trees within a fall landscape. He exhibited every year from 1876 to 1891, with the exception of 1879, 1881 and 1886, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts' Annual Exhibition. After his time in Philadelphia, Linford divided his time between Pittsburgh, New York and Plainfield, New Jersey. In 1890, he lived in New York and exhibited at the National Academy of Design where he had also exhibited in 1878 and 1879. Linford's works were included in the private collections of Andrew L. Carnegie and C. H. Wolfe.

oil

Good, slightly dirty, would benefit from a cleaning, small knock to surface at upper right

Private Collection, West Virginia