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Signed Leonard Ochtman (American, 1854-1935), ‘Autumn Landscape’. Oil Paianting on Canvas
Signed Leonard Ochtman (American, 1854 – 1935). ‘Autumn Landscape’. Oil Paintingon canvas. Signed lower left and inscribed ‘to my friend chester….’, lower right.
Born in the netherlands, the family moved to albany, new york in 1866. He attended the art students league in new york city during the winter of 1879, and then established a studio in albany, new york. In 1880, he began exhibiting at the national academy of design, and in 1883 with the american watercolor society. In 1886, he first went to europe, and spent much time in holland where he studied atmospheric painting of hague school painters including Jacob Maris and Anton Mauve. He returned to new york in 1887. For several years his studio in new york city was located in the same building as that of George Inness. He was a member of the salmagundi club in new york. He became a national academician with the national academy of design in 1904.
Ochtman and his wife, the accomplished american impressionist painter Mina Fonda Ochtman, moved to mianus, ct in 1891, where they became founding members of the cos cob art colony. Other members of the colony include John Henry Twachtman, Childe Hassam, Julian Alden Weir, Elmer Livingston MacRae, and Theodore Robinson and Ochtmans daughter, Dorothy Ochtman. From grayledge, the house that he built overlooking the mianus river, he instructed younger artists boarding at the nearby bush-holley house. In 1910 and 1911, he held classes for the new york summer school at grayledge. His students included Clark Voorhees and Harriet Randall Lumis.
In a publication, ‘Palette and Bench’, August 1909, he stated that he painted "all my pictures in the studio from memory or notes. They are arranged, composed; they represent no particular place, but give to the best of my ability the character, color, and atmospheric conditions of the country in which I live . . . after all, we want the effect of the day, hour or moment, the mood and not a transcript of the place." (Carol Lowrey)
In 1912, Ochtman and his friend, the sculptor Edward Clark Potter, formed the greenwich society of artists and the bruce museum. Ochtman served as the first vice president of the society in 1912, and as president from 1916–1932; also serving as the first art curator of the bruce museum in greenwich, ct. His work can be found in the smithsonian american art museum, the bruce museum, and the dallas museum of art.
Canvas – 12" high x 16" wide. Frame – 19 1/4" high x 23 1/4" wide.
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Condition: Restoration notes to verso. Craquelure throughout. Some frame rubbing.
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