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Norton Bush

Norton Bush (1834 - 1894) was active/lived in California.  Norton Bush is known for Tropical landscape, mountains, portrait.

Known primarily for his tropical views of South and Central America, Norton Bush was also one of the West Coast's earliest landscape painters, especially of Sierra Nevada mountain scenes. He arrived in 1853 and established a studio in San Francisco, and remained there excepting for a few years in Sacramento and several trips to Latin America.

His tropical landscapes were highly exotic subject in those days and first resulted from his trip around Cape Horn, sailing from New York to California. His South American subjects brought him patronage from wealthy Californians William Ralston and Henry Meiggs, and their financial support for projects promoting their businesses allowed him to make additional trips to South America in 1868 and 1875.

Norton Bush was born in Rochester, New York and took his first art instruction from James Harris, a local artist. He also studied with Jasper Cropsey in New York City and associated with Frederic Church, both Hudson River School painters   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2600 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 159 auction lots for Norton Bush (of which 120 auction records sold and 5 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 1 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers (including new art for sale). There are 3 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Norton Bush as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Norton Bush in 1 of its research Essays. Norton Bush has 17 artist signature examples available in our database.

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