American Masterpieces from Dryads Green Gallery (Please Scroll Down--Catalogue is Alphabetical by Artist Last Name)

Artist Name:       William Edward Norton Artist Dates:        1843 - 1916       Painting Title:      The Blue Dory     Painting Date:      Undated     Medium:             Oil on Canvas            Signature:            Signed lower left          Provenance:         Private Collection Condition:            Excellent           Size Unframed:     12 x 16 Frame Condition:  Excellent Gallery Style Artist Best Price:   $30,625  Offered At:             CALL

Curator's Comments: Another of our painters who is well represented in the Smithsonian, with four canvases, Boston-born William Edward Norton studied with George Inness, and went to Paris in the early 1870s. He studied with Chevreuse and Vollon, and then settled in London where he exhibited throughout the last quarter of the 19th century. In 1901, he returned to the U.S. and settled in New York City, where the Rockaways became his subject. Norton also painted major seascapes at Monhegan Island, Maine. “The Blue Dory” is one of the most emotionally powerful paintings in our collection, photographic in its realism and at the same time journeying far into the realm of symbolism. Poised for rebirth or death as it awaits the tide, the dory is a deep archetype that arrests our vision—a brilliant painting, in excellent condition. Clearly, over time, one recognizes the mastery of a masterpiece. In the signature, the "E"is characteristic.

Off Monhegan (12 x 20) Sets New Record We were watching at Barridorf's annual auction this August, when this incredible Norton masterpiece crossed the block at a new record high for this under-valued American artist whose sky work alone is unequaled in tonality--Sold for $30,625!

Artist Name:       William Edward Norton Artist Dates:        1843 - 1916       Painting Title:      Honfleur     Painting Date:      Undated     Medium:             Oil on Canvas            Signature:            Signed lower left          Provenance:         Private Estate Condition:            Excellent           Size Unframed:     16 1/8 x 12 1/8   Frame Condition:  Antique Excellent Artist Best Price:   $30,625  Offered At:             CALL

Curator's Comments: Here is Norton painting in 1873, with a beautiful perspective of Honfleur at the mouth of the Seine on the Normandy coast and across from Le Havre. We are again attracted to the perspective with it perfectly detailed flowers in the foreground, and then to Norton's focal object--here the young poplars--and finally to the distant horizon where  grey sea merges into sky. A look at the Blue Dory is enough to make Norton's artistry clear--and this work is both signed and titled by the artist. The view is probably from La Ferme Saint-Simeon, where Courbet painted and after him Monet, whose Honfleur canvases date to 1864-65.  Honfleur's old harbor is visible, but Norton has chosen not to focus on the picturesque fishing village and instead gives the contrast of the town's warehouses and factories with the natural hillside setting. We are reminded that the human element has come to lodge against the hillside like a transient vessel moored within the breakwater. Canvases from Norton's French period are highly valued and quite rare and not featured in the Smithsonian collection. His masterpiece from this time, Dream Days, hangs in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.

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