OTTO SOMMER* (active mid-nineteenth century)

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OTTO SOMMER* (active mid-nineteenth century)

View of Conway, New Hampshire

signed Otto Sommer, l.r.--oil on canvas
31¼ x 46 1/8in. (79 x 117.2cm.)

Provenance

Estate of Catherine H. Campbell, the author of New Hampshire Scenery
By descent in the family

Literature

University Art Gallery Catalogue, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, 1980, no. 122
C.H. Campbell & M.S. Blaine, New Hampshire Scenery: A Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Artists of New Hampshire Mountain Landscapes, Canaan, New Hampshire, 1985, p. 154
K. Avery et al, eds., American Paradise: The World of The Hudson River School, New York, 1987, p. 151

Lot Essay

Sommer used John F. Kensett's The White Mountains--Mt. Washington, in the collection of The Wellesley College Museum, as his inspiration for this canvas. Painted circa 1860-61, this work is the only known view of the White Mountains depicted by Sommer. Although little is known about the artist, he exhibited at the National Academy of Design from 1862-1866 and one of his most famous works, Westward Ho, now hangs in the Capitol in Washington, D.C.