New Release "Frankfort Landmarks" Print, Paul Sawyier Galleries, #32/395

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New Release of "Frankfort Landmarks" Print by Paul Sawyier Galleries of 1800's Kentucky Artist "Paul Sawyier". This is Numbered #32 of 395. Brand New Condition! Will will be Shipped Flat! Returns will be accepted within 14 days of receiving and buyer will be responsible for the return shipping costs and refund will be issued once item is received back in same condition as when I shipped it with no damages. Please allow 1 to 5 days to package and ship this item. Also welcome Local Pickup! Size: 12 1/2" x 8 1/2" History of Paul Sawyier Sawyier was born in 1865 near London, Ohio and lived on a farm for his first five years. (The Good Earth) In 1870, the family moved to Frankfort, Kentucky to live with his maternal grandmother Wingate. His father also had his medical practice in their home on Broadway and Elk's Alley, near the entrance to the new Kentucky Historical Center, 100 West Broadway. The children attended the new Second Street School and Paul and his sister Natalie were tutored at home in art. Paul Sawyier had three sisters, Lillian (Hill), Natalie (Bentz), Mary Campbell (Neiss-Waner) and one brother, Henry Wingate, who attended the new Second Street School. Sawyier's painting career began about 1890. He was trained mainly in portraiture by Thomas Noble and Frank Duveneck in the Cincinnati, Ohio area, and by William Merritt Chase in New York. Initially, Sawyier made his living by painting portraits of local individuals, including Governor Charles Scott (Portrait), Charles Harper, President of the Frankfort & Cincinnati Railroad,(Portrait) and of his grandfather Henry Wingate, Kentucky's first Grand Mason, and Henry Waters, a local stone mason. (The Rockbreaker) It is estimated that he did about fifty portraits, mainly in pastel. By 1900, Sawyier was painting landscapes in the "impressionist" style. He did multiple versions of scenes of the road leading up Louisville Hill, (Blacksmith's Shop) near Second Street School and of the streets of downtown Frankfort.Sawyier's favorite landmarks were of the old covered bridge (Covered Bridge in Autumn) and of the singing bridge that replaced it, which can be seen from the Frankfort City Cemetery (Boone's Bluff), and the fountain in front of the old Post Office and Court House.(A Rainy Day on Wapping Street) He also frequently painted views of the front of Old Capitol. (Old Capital Fountain). When painting scenes of the Kentucky River, the focal point was often from the Frankfort City Cemetery (Blanton's Landing) and usually included the steeples (The Steeples) of the County Courthouse, Good Shepherd Church, and the old Federal Courthouse, currently the Paul Sawyier Public Library. Scenes on the river normally included a houseboat as part of the activity on the river. (Romance On The River). Paul Sawyier returned to Frankfort in October, 1914, for the burial of Mayme Bull. It is generally felt that Paul and Mayme did not marry so that they could care for their elderly parents. Details of their relationship were lost when their love letters were destroyed after Paul's death, by his sisters.Paul Sawyier died in Highmount, New York on November 5, 1917, at the age of 52, of a heart attack. Initially, he was buried in the nearby Covesville Cemetery. Five years later, his cousin, Judge Russel McReary, returned Sawyier's body to be reinterred on June 9, 1923 in the Frankfort City Cemetery. read more

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