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Samuel Colman

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Samuel Colman (1832 - 1920) was active/lived in New York, California, Maine.  Samuel Colman is known for Landscape, animal, genre and botanical painting.

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 A significant landscape painter of the second generation of Hudson River School painters, Samuel Colman traveled widely and eventually went far beyond the Hudson River for subject matter.  He created many large canvases of European, United States, Canadian, and Mexican subjects, especially scenes along the Hudson River and the White Mountains of New Hampshire.  He also traveled to North Africa in the 1870s, and one of his most impressive works, The Moorish Mosque of Sidi Halou, Tlemcen, Algeria (1875) is in the Edna Barnes Solomon collection of the New York Public Library.

He was a full member of the National Academy of Design and lived long enough to see attention to his work eclipsed by that given to modernism.  He was a key person in establishing watercolor as an independent medium that was good for more than just sketching.

Colman was born and raised in Portland, Maine, and early moved to New York City, where his father, a publisher   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7718 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Research resources

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Samuel Colman available:    Jasper Francis Cropsey,  John William Casilear,  James McDougal Hart,  Sanford Robinson Gifford,  William Hart,  Alfred Thompson Bricher,  John Frederick Kensett,  Worthington (Thomas) Whittredge,  Jervis McEntee,  David Johnson,  Edward Lamson Henry,  John George Brown,  William Mason Brown,  Levi Wells Prentice,  Thomas Doughty,  William Trost Richards,  William Louis Sonntag Sr,  Mauritz Frederik Hendrick De Haas,  Walter Launt Palmer,  Francis Augustus Silva,  Alexander Helwig Wyant,  William Bradford,  Martin Johnson Heade,  Albert Bierstadt



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Samuel Colman


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Moving Scenic Panorama Painting, 3-D Diorama
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt StyleArt SubjectGeography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Adirondack Mountains
  • Arizona Before 1945
  • California Before 1940
  • Catskill Mountains, New York
  • Colorado Before 1900
  • Colorado Rocky Mountains
  • Europe
  • Grand Canyon, Arizona
  • Hawaiian Islands and/or South Seas, Tahiti, Bali
  • Hudson River Valley, New York
  • Italy Before World War I
  • Lake George, New York
  • Long Island, New York
  • Mexico and/or Central America
  • Mount Rainier
  • New Mexico Before 1940
  • Northern California Before 1900
  • Pacific Northwest Before 1900
  • Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
  • Rocky Mountain School of Painting
  • Southern California Before 1900
  • Venice, Italy
  • West Virginia Before 1920
  • White Mountains, New Hampshire
  • Yosemite National Park
Art Association
  • American Society of Painters in Water Color
  • American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor
  • Boston Art Club
  • Brooklyn Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, Elected Member
  • New York Etching Club
  • Society of American Artists, New York
Art Teacher
  • Asher Durand
  • Charles Carolus-Duran Atelier
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
  • Anschutz Collection
  • Gerald Peters Collection
  • Picerne Arizona Landmark Collection
  • Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
  • Vandeveer Spratlen Collection
Added Description
  • Animal Specialty
  • Botany Specialty
  • Genre Specialty
  • Landscape Specialty
  • Watercolor Specialty
  • Yosemite Park Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • AskART Panama Pacific Expo
  • Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
  • Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
  • World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
  • American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor-
  • Boston Art Club-
  • Brooklyn Art Association-
  • Lotos Club
  • National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Boston Athenaeum

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