Super Tonalist Oil Painting by New York painter Edward Loyal Field (1856-1914)!

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A very attractive tonalist landscape by noted New York painter, Edward Loyal Field (1856-1914). Painting is oil on board,oil itself measures approximately 8 x 10 inches and is signed partially lower left. Painting is estate stamped on the verso. It is sold unframed. Condition looks very good, appears stable, with no chips or crackelure that I can see. Buyer topay for shipping, Etcher, watercolorist, and painter in oils, Edward Loyal Field was an artist of considerable versatility. He was born in Galesburg, Illinois in 1856 and, as a young man, went to Paris, where he studied in the popular atelier of Carolus-Duran. He returned to the U.S. in 1882, taking up residence in Manhatten, where he remained throughout his life. Field exhibited extensively in cities throughout America and was a member of both the Salmagundi Club and the Boston Art Club. Though apparently successful in his lifetime, little is known about the artist today. Of particular interest is his association in the ’90’s with the Pakatakan art colony near Arkville, New York, in the heart of the Catskills. The presence of Field, John Francis Murphy, Ada Clifford Murphy, and Alexander Wyant make the Pakatakan colony significant in the history of American Tonalism. Field died in New York City only months before the outbreak of World War I. The modern neglect of Field and read more