Wild Tree with Waterfall

Joshua Shaw (1776 - 1860)
Oil on canvas
Circa: 1825
Size: 16" x 20" (sight) | 21" x 24 3/4" (frame)
Wonderful landscape with a large signature Shaw tree occupying the left margin and extending into the bottom center—full of active and animated branches and roots. Large waterfall in the middleground and an overcast sky and low mountains in the back.

Shaw emigrated to the United States in 1817 and by 1819 settled in Philadelphia, where he established himself as an artist. In 1820 he collaborated with John Hill, an aquatint engraver, on a collection of large folio prints titled “Picturesque Views of American Scenery.” Shaw provided the paintings, which Hill reproduced as prints.

He helped promote the Artists’ Fund Society of Philadelphia, established in 1834, and was instrumental in founding the Artists’ and Amateurs’ Association of Philadelphia in 1839. He also exhibited actively at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Shaw's work can be found in most major American museums, including; Metropolitan Museum of Art New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey.

Condition: Very-good to excellent with original stretchers, a strip lining to the perimeter (original canvas exposed on the back), scattered, minor inpainting and inpainting along the vertical left edge.

Price: SOLD

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