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JAMES D. SMILLIE
Two oil on canvas studies.
Study from Nature, No. 2 (Catskill Clove)
,
1864. Signed with the artist’s monogram,
and dated “July ’64” in oil, lower left recto
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Study from Nature, No. 4 (Catskill Clove)
,
1864. Signed with the artist’s monogram,
and dated “July 1864” in oil, lower left
recto, and signed, titled and dated in oil
verso. Both approximately 250x175 mm;
9
7
/
8
x6
7
/
8
inches.Both ex-collection the artist,
thence by descent to the current owners.
The Kaaterskill (or Catskill) Clove in the
Catskill Mountains northwest of New
York,was a popular destination for Hudson
River School artists (bothAsher B.Durand
and John Frederick Kensett painted there
in the 1850s). By the late 1860s this
picturesque rock outcropping had also
become a tourist destination for nature-
seekers from NewYork City.
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