Albert Babb Insley - Near Nanuet New York

Near Nanuet, New York

Albert Babb Insley's original oil painting on canvas, "Near Nanuet, New York" was created by the artist around 1910. It is painted upon fine unstretched canvas and signed by the artist along the lower corner. "Near Nanuet, New York" is a fine, original example of the landscape art created by the 19th and early 20th century painter, Albert Babb Insley.

Original Oil Painting on Canvas by the American artist, Albert Babb Insley 'Albert Insley'.

Near Nanuet, New York

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Title:	Near Nanuet, New York
Artist:	Insley, Albert Babb 'Albert Insley' (Orange-Now Bloomfield, New Jersey, 1842 - Nanuet, New York, 1937)
Date:	c. 1910
Medium:	Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Note:	Albert Babb Insley 'Albert Insley': Today, Albert Insley has taken his place as one of America's greatest landscape painters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His somewhat shy and retiring nature led him to reject self-promotion. Twice (in 1869 and 1875) fellow artists put his name forward for nomination into the prestigious National Academy of Design, but on both occasions, he withdrew his name without comment. In 1870, Insley became a charter member of New York's influential Salmagundi Club, but resigned a year later. Yet his art was too fine to ignore and, from 1862, his paintings were frequently exhibited with both the New York Art Association and with the National Academy of Design, Washington.
	At age twelve, Albert Babb Insley was making drawings for his uncle, an architect. He quit school at age fourteen and apprenticed in photography. Mainly self-taught, Insley's first paintings dated from 1860 and by 1862, he exhibited his first of many works at the National Academy of Design. He had been invited to do so by the influential painter and inventor, Samuel Morse. This was a major accomplishment for an artist of just twenty-two.
	In the summers of 1864 and 1865, Albert Babb Insley took painting lessons from Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823 - 1900). Insley had long admired this master of the Hudson River School of painting. He was also invited to open a studio on 10th Street, in New York, and there became a close friend of such distinguished artists as James Craig Nicoll and J. Alden Weir.
	In 1881, Albert Babb Insley joined an art class on pigment analysis taught by George Inness (1825-1894), one of the most revered of all Hudson River school painters. Like his association with Cropsey, however, Insley did not merely copy this great master. R. Blankenship writes, "A new style developed in Insley's work as a result of his study with George Inness. Insley's style became looser and freer and his palette lighter, yet his paintings did not become slavish imitations in the Inness manner. Insley began to arrange the components of his landscapes to make more effective use of contrasts in sunlight and shadow, and distance in near and far elements." (p32)*
	During the 1880's and 1890's, Albert Insley's art reached its mature phase. His palette was dominated by subdued greens and browns, but within these colours and entire lyrical range was developed. Moreover, by 1890, he began spending more time at his family farm near Nanuet, New York. Most of his later art portrays the countryside around this locality.
	Throughout his long life, Albert Insley's art was constantly changing. From 1905 to 1915, he was producing impressionistic works of much accomplishment. Even in his later years, he was always a master of poetic feeling in landscape. His genius was in his ability to make all his landscapes both intensely evocative and personal.
	In Conclusion, Jay Cantor writes, "Insley's mature paintings are suffused with joy in observing the quiet moments of nature as they appeared in countless rambles throughout his neighbourhood around Nanuet, New York. Characteristically, he produced dozens of small-scale paintings rather than more formalized and ambitious canvases. These gems are rich with qualities of the momentary. He devotes his artistic life to a constant dialogue between a personal vision and a shared vocabulary of painterly ideas" (p. 10)*.
	Registered at the American Archives Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC. The official registrations sticker and the catalogue are provided with the documentation.
Reference:	Roy Blankenship, The Delicate Palette of Albert Insley*, Centennial Graphics Inc., Ephrata, Pa., 1982.
Size:	13 3/4 X 10 1/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials
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Condition:	Near Nanuet, New York is painted upon fine unstretched canvas. In superb condition throughout. Signed by the artist along the lower corner. This original oil painting represents a prime example of the famous landscape art of Albert Babb Insley, one of America's truly great masters.
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