Description: Original oil on canvas by American Impressionist painter Walter Emerson Baum (1884-1956) . This oil depicts a snowy winter scene of a creek through a hilly forested landscape. The stretcher has a pencil notation "Saucon Creek" which is in Bethlehem/Allentown area of Pennsylvania. Good sized piece, it measures 25 1/2 x 31 inches, with frame it is approx. 30 x 36 inches, signature is on the reverse. It is an oil on canvas mounted on stretchers with tacks and is in a ca.1950 hardwood frame. The frame shows typical scuffing, but looks good overall. Painting has expected cracquelure and age toning and is in excellent condition. Walter Emerson Baum (1884-1956) was born in Sellersville, Pennsylvania and is the only artist identified with the New Hope Impressionists that was actually born in Bucks County. Widely celebrated for his Impressionist snow scenes in the tradition of Edward Redfield and Walter Schofield, his style was bold and painterly. Many of his canvases were painted using the plein-air style. Baum captured the now largely developed Pennsylvania countryside and farmland. Baum attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1905 to 1906 under Daniel Garber, William Trego and Thomas Anshutz. He was awarded over thirty prizes and awards from 1918 to 1957, including the Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal at the PAFA in 1925. Not only revered as a fine painter, Baum was a writer for the Sellersville Herald and the art editor for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and wrote hundreds of newspaper articles over the course of his career. He was a major force in the Lehigh Valley art world, as a teacher and a founder of the Allentown Art Museum and the Baum School of Art. Today his paintings hang in many major museums, including the Michener Art Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, National Academy of Design, the Allentown Art Museum and the Woodmere Art Museum. (source: James A. Michener Art Museum)
Price: 1850 USD
Location: Spring Hill, Florida
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Unit of Sale: Single-Piece Work
Artist: Walter Emerson Baum
Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
Signed: Yes
Color: Multi-Color
Material: Canvas
Region of Origin: Pennsylvania, USA
Framing: Framed
Subject: Landscape
Type: Painting
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Style: Impressionism, Realism
Theme: Winter Snow
Features: Signed, One of a Kind (OOAK)
Production Technique: Oil Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Culture: American
Time Period Produced: 1925-1949
