John White Allen Scott (1815- March 4, 1907) was an American painter and lithographer associated with the Hudson River School and White Mountain art.
John White Allen Scott | |
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| Born | 1815 Roxbury, Massachusetts |
| Died | March 4, 1907 (aged 91–92) |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | painting, lithography |
Biography
editJohn White Allen Scott or John W.A. Scott was born in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1815.[1][2] Scott began as an apprentice at Pendleton's Lithography in 1830 at the same time as fellow Roxbury native Nathaniel Currier of Currier and Ives.[3] In 1844 Scott started a lithography firm in partnership with Fitz Hugh Lane ("Lane & Scott's Lithography"), which lasted until 1847.[4][5] The firm successfully produced lithographs dominated by ships, landscapes and architectural forms. Scott continued to produce "exceptional" lithographs into the 1850s and would remain friends with Lane.[6] Around 1852 he kept a studio in Boston's Tremont Temple.[7] Scott's work sold well during his time; for instance, in 1855 he "sold more than 50 landscapes at auction."[8] Among his favorite subjects was Southern New Hampshire's Mount Monadnock.[9] He belonged to the New England Art Union[10] and the Boston Art Club (1863-1907), of which he was the oldest member at the time of his death.[11] Scott also frequently exhibited at the Boston Athenæum.[12]
Scott's paintings are now held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,[13] the Currier Museum of Art,[14] the Farnsworth Art Museum,[15] the New Hampshire Historical Society,[16] and The Butler Institute of American Art, among other museums and galleries.
References
edit- ^ Boston Directory. 1851, 1857
- ^ Boston Almanac. 1870
- ^ "Old-Time New England". Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1972. 1972.
- ^ John William Reps. Views and viewmakers of urban America: lithographs of towns and cities in the United States and Canada, notes on the artists and publishers, and a union catalog of their work, 1825-1925. University of Missouri Press, 1984
- ^ Barbara Novak. American painting of the nineteenth century: realism, idealism, and the American experience. Oxford University Press US, 2007
- ^ Craig, James (August 2006). Fitz H. Lane: An Artist's Voyage through Nineteenth-Century America. The History Press, 2006. ISBN 9781625844422.
- ^ Destructive Fire. Boston Daily Atlas; Date: 04-01-1852
- ^ Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine, July 1855
- ^ Gerdts, William (1971). "19th Century American Painting from the Collection of Henry Melville Fuller". Currier Gallery of Art, 1971.
- ^ Bulletin of the New England Art Union, No. 1 (1852)
- ^ New York Times, March 5, 1907
- ^ "Vose Galleries - John White Allen Scott".
- ^ "Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Collection, "View of Roxbury, 1854"".
- ^ "Currier Museum of Art Collections".
- ^ "Farnsworth Museum of Art Collections".
- ^ "New Hampshire Historical Society Collections, "In the Notch"".
Image gallery
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Lithograph by Lane & Scott of Bowdoin College, 1845 -
Lithograph by Lane & Scott of Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1846 -
Boston Harbor, by John W.A. Scott, 1853 (Old State House Museum, Boston) -
View of Roxbury by John W.A. Scott, 1854 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
External links
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- NYPL. View of Newburyport, (from Salisbury), 1846. By Lane & Scott
- Post Road Gallery, NY. Work by Scott
- White Mtn. Art & Artists
- Skinner auctioneers, Massachusetts. Work by Scott