Linton Park (1826 - 1906)

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

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Description

Linton Park
Children Harvesting Christmas Trees
oil on canvas mounted on masonite
17 3/4 in. by 24 in.

Painted circa 1870.

Provenance

Nathan Liverant and Son Antiques, Colchester, Connecticut, January 26, 1982.

Exhibited

Springfield, Massachusetts, The Holyoke Museum, A Folk Art Pilgrimage, November 3 – December 23, 1998.

Literature

For further information about Parks, see The Magazine Antiques, Feb. 1939, pp. 84–86, and The Magazine Antiques, Nov. 1981, pp. 1203–1209.

Catalogue Note

Linton (or Lindon) Park was an artist, also thought to be a lumberjack or wood-cutter, chiefly because of the frequency with which these scenes appear in his artwork. He was born in Marion Center, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, at a time when the area was frontier wilderness.