Lot 24
Charlotte Buell Coman
(American; 1833 - 1924)
Still Life of Wildflowers
Oil on canvas
Signed LL: C.B. Coman.
Born in Waterville, Iowa, Charlotte Buell Coman was a prominent late 19th, early 20th-century landscape artist known for her Tonalist paintings. She was a key painter in bringing the Barbizon tradition from France to America.
At age forty, after the death of her husband and loss of her hearing, she committed herself to a career in art. Her first teacher was James Brevoort, a landscape painter of New York City. She continued for another ten years abroad, first in Paris where she exhibited at the Paris Salon and studied with Harry Thompson and Emile Vernier, and then six years in Holland. A studio fire destroyed the output of these years.
In France, she was greatly influenced by the Barbizon painters and their attention to contrasting light and atmosphere as well as working in a broad-sweeping manner without attention to detail.
In the early 1880s, she returned permanently to New York City where she had already been exhibiting at the National Academy of Design. In 1876, her painting A French Village, had earned her much praise at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. Critics compared her work to Corot.
However, she later turned away from European subjects and devoted herself to the American landscape, using a Tonalist approach and suggesting spirituality with misty effects achieved with dominance of subdued blues and greens.
Coman received much positive attention including election in 1910 as an Associate to the National Academy of Design, but because of discrimination against women artists by male jurors, she always signed her work C.B. Coman. She continued painting almost to her death at age 89. Her reputation lapsed into obscurity until the mid 1970s when a renewed interest in feminine artists brought new appreciation to her work.
17 1/4" x 26 1/8"
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