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Henry Chapman Ford at Santa Barbara browse these categories for related items... Directory: Archives:Fine Art:Paintings:Oil:Pre 1900: item # 193998 Please refer to our stock # 0056 when inquiring. ROBERT'S ANTIQUES AND FINE ART 417 TROUT GULCH ROAD APTOS,CA. 95003 831-684-2942 Th-Su Guest Book SOLD-$35,000. |
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One of the first paintings by Henry Chapman Ford at Glen Annie Canyon. Titled "Scene on Col. Hollister's Ranch", HCF '75. 17" X 29 1/2" plus original frame. Significant historical painting of Santa Barbara pioneer era. Professional conservation. One of a kind image of Santa Barbara in the last quarter of the 19th century.
Exquisite brush work and tonal mastery makes this the painting of the last century in California Art. Henry Chapman Ford arrived in Santa Barbara in 1875 and immediately began documenting California landscapes.
Best known for his 1883 series of etchings on the Franciscan missions of California, Henry Chapman Ford was raised in Livonia, New York, and began painting as a youth without the benefit of instruction. After working in a counting house for several years, he moved to the West and settled in Moline, Illinois, a growing community on the banks of the Mississippi. During this residence he sketched views along the river, which were lithographed and sold to subscribers. By 1858 Ford had saved enough money for formal study in Europe, but after a month in the Paris studio of C. P. Cranch, he took off on his own, copying pictures in the museums and sketching in the countryside.
On his return to the United States in 1861, Ford enlisted in the Union Army and served in Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky, furnishing the illustrated press with sketches of army life until 1862, when he was forced by ill health to seek a medical discharge. Recuperating in Chicago, Ford opened a studio and became the city's first landscape painter. One of the founder's of the Chicago Academy of Design (the predecessor of the Art Institute), he served as its president for several years. In 1871 his studio burned and he lost most of his work. In failing health, he moved to California in 1875 and settled in Santa Barbara.
Normann Neuerburg. Henry Chapman Ford/ Painter of early California, an illustrated history of this early California artist.
Ventura, California: Ventura County Historical Society. For a copy of this book go to: http://www.vcmha.org/historybooks.htm
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