Antique Charles Xavier Harris Signed Tree Sailboat Coastal Seascape Etching 18"

Description

Late 19th century black and white etching by Charles Xavier Harris. Panoramic landscape of boats in harbor by a small town, with a tree centered in the foreground. Copyrighted by Radtke, Lauckner & Co, New York. Remarke of a sail boat, lower edge. Pencil signed, lower right. Heavy paper; unframed.

"Charles Xavier Harris (1856 - 1936) was active/lived in New York, Virginia. Painter, craftsperson and art restorer, Charles Xavier Harris was born 1856 in Foxcroft, Maine. He spent his childhood in Minneapolis from where he did a lot of traveling in the United States with his father. Harris studied in Paris in 1875 at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts and with Alexandre Cabanel. He also traveled in Spain, Sicily, Italy and North Africa; by 1882, he was returned to the United States, settling in New York City. There he acquired a modest reputation for Italian immigrant genre scenes and paintings of historical Colonial Dutch subjects, an interest that likely led him to the profession of his later years, which was restoration, copying and conservation of historical paintings. In this capacity as restorer, he worked closely with the Art House Gallery in New York and the collection of Thomas B. Clarke, an art dealer and patron of artists contemporary with his lifetime. As a craftsperson, he worked in stained glass. From 1885 to 1897, Charles Harris exhibited yearly in the Academy of Design exhibitions Like his father, he was peripatetic and often living in people's homes, spent much time in the Northeast, Connecticut, Delaware and New Jersey. In 1929, he located permanently in Richmond, Virginia where he was a consultant for exhibitions. He also did writing including a series of articles in the 1920s for the New York Historical Society Quarterly about New Netherland portrait painters. His oil paintings include The Moulders, depicting two sculptors at work, and the goodbyes involved in a Colonial Wedding. His work can be viewed at the Memorial Hall, Philadelphia; Manor Hall, Yonkers; Mercantile Library; Lambs' Club, New York; University Virginia; Virginia Historical Society; Perce, Quebec; and a stained glass window in Doylestown, Pennsylvania." (askART)

Condition

Wear and distressing from age, foxing, discoloration, spotting.

Dimensions

17.75" x 8.75" (Width x Height)