Newly Acquired Paintings by 18th and 19th Century American Artists including Gilbert Stuart and Alfred Bryan Wall


New Acquisitions - Fall 2011
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	Joseph Harry Wheater American, 1855-1929 (click painting for larger image) Born in Bradford, England, Joe Wheater came to America with his parents at a young age, initially settling in Cambridge, MA. then in City Point section of South Boston, MA near the water and yacht clubs. In May, 1904, at age 19, he sailed alone to England from Boston on the S.S. Saxonia staying in Bradford, England with aunts, uncles and cousins for about 3 months. During his extended visit, he painted and drew scenes of Bradford and neighboring towns. He returned in September with over 120 sketches and watercolors as well as many snapshots. As a young man, he worked designing steam boat whistles. In his early 20's, Joe Wheater enrolled at The Fenway School of Illustration. He later studied under Henry W. Rice, who was a well known Boston water colorist with a studio in the Fenway area of Boston. Around 1915-1916, Joe Wheater became a reference artist for a motion picture company in New Jersey. He stayed at an artist colony in Leonia, N.J., with artists who became quite famous, notably Dean Cornell, Charles Defeo Harry Ballinger and many others. While working in NJ, he took courses at the Art Students League in New York City. Joe Wheater returned to South Boston when his father died and lived with his mother. He never married. His mother passed away about 1935 or 1936. Wheater lived at that address near the Yacht Clubs until he died in 1959. Wheater never cared to have an exhibition, painting only for his own pleasure and satisfaction. He traveled the New England states, Quebec and Nova Scotia to get subjects to paint. Wheater was a long time member of the South Boston Yacht Club. Joe Wheater worked in watercolor, oil and pencil, doing landscape and seascape scenes. A small size oil of a schooner at anchor is in the possession of the Peabody Museum. Wheater lived alone and at age 74 died of a massive heart attack. He is buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Dorchester, MA. Source: askart.com
	Thomas Bigelow Craig American, 1849 - 1924 (click painting for larger image) Known for his bucolic landscapes with grazing cows, Thomas Craig was born in Philadelphia where he remained until 1889 and then moved to New York City until 1899. He finally settled in Rutherford, New Jersey, but maintained a summer studio in Woodland Valle, near Phoenicia, New York. It is believed that Craig was largely self taught, but his activity in the Philadelphia Sketch Club, 1873 to 1876, suggests he was a student of Thomas Eakins. He frequently painted in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and in the countryside of both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Mr. Craig's works are included in the Butler Institute of American Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, The Washington County Museum of Fine Art, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, the Mobile Museum of Art and the Newark Museum. He was a Member of the National Academy, Salmagundi Club and Artists Fund Society and exhibited at these venues as well as at the Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia Art Club (1876), Philadelphia Exposition, Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Art Club, Brooklyn Art Association and Society for Independent Artists. He exhibited for forty-five years at the National Academy of Design. Sources include: Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art William Patterson & David Zellin, Thomas Eakins and His Fellow Artists at the Philadelphia Sketch Club
	Austin Wooster American, 1864-1913 click painting for larger image SOLD
	Austin C. Wooster, son of Dr. Henry Wooster and Rebecca Thornburg, was a southwestern Pennsylvania painter of portraits, landscapes, and still lifes from 1860 to 1916. His great-grandfather, Thomas Thornburg, was a member of the Pennsylvania Militia during the Revolutionary War. He was born on the Thornburg farm in Chartiers Valley, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. This is now part of a town called Thornburg. Austin's grandparents, Jacob and Jane Lorain Thornburg, who raised him after the early death of his parents, discouraged his art, looking on it as an insane fancy or crime, rather than as a gift. Wooster lived in Green Tree (then called Union Township), Allegheny County, Pennsylvania where he earned his living as an artist and did occasional work at house painting. Wooster had a studio in Pittsburgh at Fourth Avenue and Wood Street. He exhibited his work in various ways, including the 1890 Western Pennsylvania Exposition Society, and Pittsburgh department stores, where he sold his work. Wooster also did work for hire; painting houses, farms, and vineyards in neighboring communities. According to two of Wooster's neighbors he did portraits, and he gave lessons in watercolor to at least one young girl, also a neighbor
	Alfred Bryan Wall American, 1861-1935 click painting for larger image SOLD As a second generation "Scalp Level School" artist, Mr. Wall frequented that artist's retreat outside of Pittsburgh with his father and uncle, Pittsburgh artists Alfred S. Wall and William Coventry Wall. This experience and the tutoring by his father was his only art training. His work includes portraits of Andrew Carnegie and Mrs. Henry Clay Frick along with his pastoral landscapes which featured sheep and occasionally cows. His brushwork was often loose but confident and exhibited a freedom of spirit. His work is often described as being casual and calm but without sentimentality. His first exhibition was in 1879 at the National Academy of Design and he was a trustee of the Carnegie Institute where he served on the Fine Arts Committee to help select the permanent collect. back to top
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