Robert Crannell Minor (1839-1904) Gorgeous woodland view painting.

Here is a beautiful woodland landscape by New York City artist, Robert Crannell Minor (1839-1904.)  He is an amazing artist with a large following, and his pieces are highly sought after by collectors.  This one is a beautiful and whimsical forest landscape, and is indistinctly signed (as shown) "Minor" to the lower right.
Visible art surface of this oil on canvas (backed with, but not mounted to, board) measures app. 22 3/8" x 16 1/4".
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Bio courtesy of Wiki: Robert Crannell Minor
(1839–1904), American artist, was born in
on April 30, 1839. His father, Israel Minor, was a merchant who made a large fortune in the pharmaceutical business. As a young man, Robert Minor worked as a bookkeeper in New York City but decided to study art in his early thirties. After studying in New York with painter
, Minor went abroad in 1871 to continue his artistic education. He visited various galleries in England before traveling to
, France, where he studied under
. He later studied in
under
and
. In 1874, he was vice president of the Société artistique et littéraire of Antwerp.
On his return to the United States in 1874, he opened a studio in New York. He painted for many years out of his studio in the Old University Building of
. Painting in the
and later in
, Minor soon became known for his landscapes resembling the
. Under the influence of
and
, he also began to paint in a Tonalist style. His painting Great Silas at Night
(1897) displays his adoption of the Tonalist style while his lingering Barbizon style can be seen in A Hillside Pasture
. From the 1890s until his death, Minor exhibited frequently with the Tonalists in New York. In 1897, he was elected a member of the
, New York. In 1900, Minor achieved the height of his success at the historic William T. Evans sale in 1900, where his painting The Close of Day
(private collection) fetched $3,050, the highest price for a landscape by a living American painter at that auction.
Over the course of his lifetime, Minor was a member of the
and the
. He exhibited in New York, Brooklyn, Chicago, and elsewhere in the United States, as well as in the Royal Academy of London and the salons of Paris and Antwerp. Minor was plagued with bad health during the last decade of his life. Despite later speculation, it did not materially impact the quantity of his output, and the suggestion that it impacted the quality of his work is a misreading of the increasing abstraction in certain of his later Tonalist paintings. He died at his home in
, on August 4, 1904. His paintings are owned by the
, the
, the
, the
, the
, the
, the
, the
, the
, the
, the
, and the
.
His paintings are characteristic of the
and
, and he was particularly happy in his sunset and twilight effects; but it was only within a few years of his death that he began to have a vogue among collectors. Among his works are: =========================
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