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Bik W. + 1 " : ‘ ? » a pyr i Z a Ave a a i mi shel sey ‘ j ( , ‘ [ lk, ey ar ear st el a goign he? a - ’ M44 ol . 5 Oe; > 4 ‘ oe ¥ eek eh al ila nek Sak - ik ge s - illo . 7"? z rn 5 " ” ‘ ee ; iy cyade Laawdy “ , pee, kis on oe ly Breath Lal ae B44 ee Perr be CG weer TBE PLON From Saturday - November 20 - To Time of Sale Weekdays 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. 7 Sunday 2 to 5 p.m. Wowie os PRE REID PUBLIC SALE Friday, November 26 at 2:15 and 8:15 p.m. Pea tbi ON AND SALE AT THE American Art Galleries Madison Avenue 56th to 57th Street New York City e Sets CONDUCTED BY Mr. O. Bernet and Mr. H. H. Parke American Art Association 7 Inc MANAGERS 1926 — Paintings and Drawings By J. FRANCIS MURPHY The Only Large Collection of Murphys Works Paintings Presented by the Artist to His Wife oyketches &° Drawings Never Offered ‘for Sale before NEW YORK AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION-INC 1920 Priced (a talogues Priced copies of the catalogue, or any session thereof, will be furnished by the Association at charges commensurate with the duties involved in copying the necessary information from the records of the Association. The AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION : Inc Designs its (atalogues and Directs All Details of Illustration Text and Typography I. = Conditions of Sale CKTAI™,_» REJECTION OF Bips. Any bid which is not commensurate with the value of the article offered, or which is merely a nominal or fractional advance, may be rejected by the auctioneer if in his judgment such bid would be likely to affect the sale injuriously. 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These conditions of sale cannot be altered except by the auctioneer or by an officer of the Association OTTO BERNET “= HERA MshaeP A Racor ae Auctioneers AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION - ING Managers eA Foreword HE American Art Association, Inc., takes a genuine pleasure in pre- senting this collection of Mr. Murphy’s work to the public, antici- pating that it will be gladly and generously received. ‘This is the first and the last—the only collection of Mr. Murphy’s paintings. ‘There are no more to come upon the market. ‘The same is true as to the drawings, none of which Mr. Murphy would offer for sale while he lived, much to the irritation of his friends. Mrs. Murphy in assembling and assorting them has sought to make the exhibition a suitable memorial to her husband, one of the fine American painters of his generation and one of the best beloved as a man. ‘The majority of the paintings are recent work, and work of the days of the artist’s best maturity. The collection, howeve1, spans fifty years of artistic labor, from 1873, and the different phases of his interest clearly appear. From an admirer of rich greens in the landscape he became a devotee of the quieter yet richer tones of the declining season of the year—an Apostle of the Autumn. And he found the autumn of infinite variety. His range was all of outdoors. In titles of his pictures may be read a book of nature: “October Woods,” “November Indian Summer,” ‘““The Sprout Lot,” “Lowlands,” “The Hill,” “The Farm,” “Gray Weather,” “Frosty Morning,” “Woods Clearing,” “The Pumpkin Field,” “The Willows,” “Outskirts of a Village,” “The Barn,” “Summer,” “Fall Mist,” to mention only a few of them. And what finer representation of nature can be wanted than that in “The Vista,” a paint- ing of 1914? Among the paintings of the early days are notes of neighboring Jersey, and there is a Chicago River record, as well as pictures of France. Dana H. Carroii New YorRK 1926 : : An eA ppreciation of Mr. Murphy and Fis Work T is a privilege and a pleasure to write a word for the catalogue of the drawings and paintings of the late J. Francis Murphy, which from time to time the artist presented to his wife. It comprises the only considerable number of Mr. Murphy’s works in the hands of any one person. The public has never before had an opportunity to purchase any of Mr. Murphy’s drawings and pencil sketches. During a friendship which lasted for many years I learned much of the early life of J. Francis Murphy. Success in art was not passed to him on a golden platter. He climbed the ladder step by step and each step meant hard persistent work. He not only won for himself recogni- tion—that elusive thing which thousands of artists fight for and never obtain—but he reached the first rank of American landscape painters. When Mr. Murphy was a young art student and the fumes of the Chicago fire were still in his nostrils, American art was an infant struggling to keep itself alive. It existed in name only. Few wanted it or believed in it. Portrait painting had made some progress during and after the Revolution, but landscapes were primi- tive. A group of artists known as the “Hudson River School” were painting landscapes which today are thought to be old-fashioned but were considered good at the time they were painted. Mr. Murphy broke away from this style of painting. His inborn love of the beautiful in nature led him as early as 1878 to paint pictures far in advance of the times and suggestive of that fine quality which he developed in later years. Under the leadership of Inness, Wyant, Homer Martin, Winslow Homer, Alden Weir, John Sargent and J. Francis Murphy, American art pushed its way to the front and took a position from which it has never retraced a step. These great artists have all passed away but their immortal works live. Mr. Murphy was a modest man. Honors came to him thick and fast during the last twenty years of his life but he remained the same big-hearted genial companion and friend. He was a good mixer. Friday evenings usually found him at the Old Salmagundi Club where the artists gathered for dinner and for a happy evening afterwards. Success never turned Mr. Murphy’s head nor caused him to change in the slightest his simple mode of living. He loved his home and enjoyed having his friends with him. He had excellent business ability. His sound judgment, fine integrity, and that rarest of all qualities, good common sense, would have made him a success in any business or profession which he might have chosen. He was born with a love for art. When a child playing on the floor he used to draw pictures on the wainscoting. His mother would never allow anyone to erase them. Nothing could ever divert him from the purpose he had in mind to become an artist. Mr. Murphy was self-taught and he taught himself well. His paintings are his monument. Those beautiful poetic landscapes which he created and which bear his name will adorn the homes of American art lovers for generations to come. ALEXANDER M. Hupnut FIRST SESSION marday November 26, 1926 at 2:15 p.m. Catalogue Numbers I to 167 Inclusive OMPRISING one hundred and sixty-seven drawings by the late C J. Francis Murphy, the majority in pencil, a few in pen and ink or heightened with water-color. ‘The sketches cover the period be- tween the years 1871 and 1886 and are made mainly in the fertile grasslands of New York and New Jersey in the summer months. In New York State the villages of Palenville, Bellona, Lakeville and Geneseo recur constantly; in Jersey the artist wandered on either bank of the Raritan River and sketched also the outskirts of the growing towns of Springfield and Elizabeth. Among old French villages are Montigny, La Genevraye, Sorgue. In addition to rapid notes of the play of light and shade on buildings, fences, trees and meadows, Murphy spent exquisite labor and thought on his smallest drawings of trees and flowers, each painstakingly labeled with the conscientiousness of a botanist and stored away in his portfolio for future use; but the arresting quality of the whole is the rapidity with which the mind of the man seized the essential and disregarded the superfluous in the picture before him, while he would return again and again to satisfy himself on a difficult point of draughtsmanship. The measurements on the following one hundred and sixty-seven drawings have not been given individually, as they are all small examples. r. LONGWOOD or hae , jhe | — Oak tree on the bank of a river, with meadows behind. Pencil. Dated Is. October 20, 1877. — — Tree in the left foreground arching over a downward slope with a low rise Ee, behind. Pencil. Dated October 10, 1877. pepe ACH) GLEN Pe nhonY LANDSCAPE 3 Wi sis Edge of a grass meadow with tall slender trees rising out of a mass of / Bomage. Pen. Dateds june 28, 1877. } MILTON, NEW JERSEY 14 2te, Pleo = f¥ Cluster of gabled cottage buildings on a country road at the top of a hill, | eA meeeervitietreess ) LATE AUGU A piece of water in the foreground with low-lying banks and a group of naked trees at the left. Hilly background indicated. Pencil and water- color. Signed, J. F. Murpuy, and dated August 24, 1884. ' PALENVILLE “WX, Chodw0— A tall wooden mill building with trees standing beside it; across the front a Pencil. Dated September 24, 1898. pipe carries water down to a barrel. A STREAM, MON tof The water flows down into the right foreground; a group of three birches in the left foreground, a ruined shelter at the right. Pencil. Signed, J. Francis Murpuy gfid dated October 2, 1886. , “3 \ / LANDSCAPE WILL we Flat pasture country, a stream in the foreground flowing by the foot of four pollard willows. Pencil. Dated July 21, 1870. A WATER-WHEEL: i Hie Smooth water in the foreground in front of an old undershot wheel half- concealed by trees at the right. Signed, J. Francis Murpuy, and dated October 20, 1881. MN 2 7 bi 7ZABE EH A huge triangular mass of leafage at the bottom of a grassy slope, overshadow- ing a brook in the foreground. Pencil. Dated June 27, 1870. (hac ie . EWO' skE TCHES; LAKEVILLE One a landscape of trees and scattered houses; the other a view of a church steeple pointing up above the trees, wild grasses in the foreground. Pencil. Dated August 23, 1881. 2 GENESEO whee s er A meadow in autumn sunshine; at the right the broad generous trunks and spreading branches of two trees. Pencil. Signed, J. F. Murpny, and dated October 11, 1881. £ CLic SEO ‘The upper one a landscape of grass and trees, the lower a distant view of the houses and spires of a village in the sunshine. Dated October 11, 1881. Pencil. 40 139. LANDSCAPE, Lbho ack Grass country rising to the right, with a group of trees in sunshine; in the foreground, boulders. Pencil. Signed, J. F. Murpny, and dated September a 7, 1881. [Lllustrated above] 41 140. V0. 145. yO ig as ¥! pat 146 148. pe LEWC Vere V\a . AUTUMNAL LANDSCAPE, “NO WALNUTS,”: DRESDEN A river in the left foreground with a bank of lush grass at the right; behind, a tall triangular bank of foliage. Carefully drawn light values. Pencil. Dated September 14, 1881. EARLE’S LANDING woh 1 Af In the right foreground a corner of the lake and overhanging trees, from behind which appears a low shed. Pencil. Dated September 7, 1881. OF CONESUS LAKE The first of a row of old piles jutting out into the water; the second showing a crude landing stage of boards with boats tied up. Pencil. Dated October ee a HARVEST, DRESDEN A stubble field with rows of small sheaves and a mass of trees in the rear. Pencil. Dated September 17, 1881. . TWO SKETCHES, LAKEVILLE - Each of a few yards of shore at the corner of a lake with trees and an old Pencil. Dated October 22, 1881. y CRANFORD A of ide-w A field in the right encircled by a ring of trees starting from the left fore- Dated July 6, 1879. wattle fence. ground, Pencil, he | SPRINGFIELD In the foreground a copse of trees with tall smooth trunks, in the sunshine; on the horizon at the left a cottage. Pencil. October 10, 1882. ce TWO DRAWINGS © Oi, Ate The first of a thicket of trees, the second of open country with a collection of farm buildings surrounded by trees. Pencil. Dated September, 1884, and October 10, 1884. aN OLD PRESS erat The remains of a large wooden press fallen and buried in tangled grass, by the side of a ruined barn. Pencil. Dated October 24, 1882. 42 mice RT A RE Rn 149: a OLD BRIDGE, MONTIGNY A stream is crossed by the single low arch of an o of thick grass with willows and slender birches ld brick bridge, the banks on either side. Pencil. Signed, J. FRANCIS Murpny, and dated October 2, 1886. [ Illustrated above \ 43 £50; it a landscape with trees and cottages. ¢ a EEE DS Ak wots r, Tr, We hav L?>ECLUSE, MONTIGNY , Foreground of long grass, with an avenue of tall poplars running away at the right ; on the horizon at the left a mansion. Pencil. Signed, J. Francis Murpuy, and dated August 11, 1886. 9 : y LANDSCAPE W EEE WILLOWS, MONTIGNY In the left foreground a stream, by a meadow with scattered pollard willows, tall poplars and birches; behind can be discerned the towers of a mansion. Pencil. Signed, J. Francis Murpuy, and dated October 2, 1886. — aX y SN . LWO SLEUDIES, MONTIGNY, The first of a corner of the village seen behind trees; the second of half-bare pollard willows and a wooden fence. Pencil. Signed, J. F. Murpuy, and dated October 3, 1886. ue SUMMER LANDSCAPE In the right foreground a pollard tree on the grass by a river at the lertouin the rear rough hills, Pencil:” Dated® [uly 217 u 4 2 . AUGUST ‘LANDSCAPE, LAKEVIDEE Foreground of meadow with a dead tree at the left, the roof of a house visible in the distance; behind it the foliage of a line of lindens. Pencil. Dated August 29, 1881. < Vv 4 AT THE WATER’S EDGE, LAKEVILLE Corner of a lake, the rounded bank at the left crowned with naked trees, behind which runs a sheep fence. Pencil. Dated October 22, 1881. SENECA LAKE, DRESDEN From right and left grassy banks descending to a stream in the centre; behind Pencil, Dated September 8, 1881. Rolling grassland rising swiftly at the right. In the middle distance farm buildings amid trees, a poplar and a maple in the left foreground. Pencil. Dated September 10, 1881. 44 | | : | aantin js Farina Riordan we weveveeiieenebemonaiiadtinotmnbeoettteEseeesee Denice ONIN mete CARED CHEN COLNE CECE LPAI AI IE SIEIA SAREE et ett tte etttabtttnasibalaniaiteibshstahieietbbet titi tiibsi sii iatioteoeCt ¥ NEW JERSEY MEADOWS In the foreground, by a sheep fence, a tree spreading into a trumpet-shaped mass of branches; prospect of fields and woodland. Pencil. Dated Septem- Beer2o, 1576. [Illustrated above | 45 4 Boe RIVER LANDSCAPE A tall pyramid of foliage rises from the grass on the farther bank of a_ river curving from the right into the foreground, Pencil. Signed, J. F. Murpuy, and datedyAugust, 1879. y \ oa eee GENESEO MEA Tangled grass in the foreground with low scattered sheaves; behind, a con- Pencil. Signed, J. Francrs Murpuy, and dated ‘PREES oA) 2G EINE | The top of a low grassy ridge across which stretches a procession of sturdy oaks and ” ae po oi 1881. : ONA is | LANDSCAPE Broad fields with the solitary form of a tree in full leafage in the central foreground. Pencil. Dated September 9, 1881. 1A RA, x FARMHOUSE, LA GENEVRAYE Low white barns with long tiled roofs behind a wall; at the left a tall elm. Pencil. Signed, J. F. Murpuy, and datedfuly 26, 1886. A FARM, MON TIGNY~ Ke A long white building at the right behind fencing, at the left tall foliage of elms and poplars. Pencil. Signed, J. Francis Murpuy, and dated August Ove a Reneley fused mass of forest. October 11, 1881. Ly LAKEVILLE sTUDY yee A depression in a rolling grass meadow backed by a mass of trees in carefully graduated lghts and darks. Pencil. Signed, J. F. Murpny, and dated August ’25, 1851. \ fe V : Da AMA tKQ) V- . OLD BUILDINGS, LA GENEVRAYE Group of picturesque white cottage buildings with tiled roofs, low walls and trees in the sunshine. Pencil. Signed, J. Francis Murpny, and dated August 3, 1886. MONTIGNY 7 : Looking down fr ise, a group of ol@ cottages with high-colored roofs, Pencil. Dated and a vista of meadow with trees breaking the horizon. August 17, 1886. 46 168. 170. SECOND AND LAST SESSION Friday Evening, November 26, at 8:15 O’clock Catalogue Numbers 108 to 302 Inclusvie “NORTH BRAWCH,” CHICAGO RIVER Painted July 18, 1873, as noted on the stretcher. An agreeable bit of sylvan landscape, depicting trees of full green foliage on the left, with other trees and bushes farther away on the right, and in the foreground green fields through which winds a small and placid river. Signed at the lower right, duets MLURPHY,, 73. Height, 5% inches; length, 8 inches 4 7, y Ps THE EDGE OF THE WOODS Trees of a forest are a rich dark green, under a green-blue sky enlivened by strata of white cloud. “The narrow foreground clearing before the woods is reddened by autumn growths in the grass. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 6 inches; length, 8 inches - TREES IN AUTUMN On a field of gently rolling surface and mixed autumnal coloring a group of trees stands at the left, some green, the outermost ones wrapped in a rich coating of red leafage which warms the still air. he sky is gray with mixed and mingling clouds almost obscuring the distant blue. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy, 1921. Height, 6 inches; length, 12 inches ¥ 0 RUSSET AND Gon 77 Kh. (Lebo A landscape in which color attraction is only a part @f the charm, rich though it be. At left is an isolated tree, standing in rough land partly green, partly gray and brown, under a breezy sky of grayish clouds. On the right, among other trees of massed foliage, are three outstanding silver birches, whose white and leaning trunks are crowned by foliage orange-russet and light golden-yellow. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny, 1921. Height, 7 inches; length, 12 inches 47 12s Dwr. KW. he Lead RIVER BANK A stream of placid flow crosses the picture, its surface darkened by reflections from a high bank on the farther side, interspersed with streaks of silvery gray from the light sky. The bank is clad in deep green of grass and trees, in subdued sunshine, and amid the trees appear buildings of gray and red. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 8 inches; length, 10 inches | Illustrated above | 48 Bef. £0L, GRAY TREES : 4 A cleared spot bounded by trees, some green, the mass a reddish-yellow in the — sunshine, is the setting in which appear, toward the left, some gray trees 3, — standing in a receding line, their light and scraggly trunks leafless and con- spicuous in the light. Signed at the lower left, J. FRancis Murpuy. } On Board: Height, 8% inches; length, 10% inches [Illustrated above | F 49 Ved Sie OEE ete 7G Vie A vague hillside in soft autumn hues and green forms the background, in front of it a level field of green grass. At the foot of the hill and bounding the field is a group of cottages and other buildings, forming a transverse line across the picture, the roofs and gables emphasized by walls of white. Here stand trees of light yellow foliage, glowing in the afternoon light. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 8 inches; length, 11 inches aS | HAY* BARRACKS, NEW JERSEY On the level surface of a green field lying before a dark wood are hayricks with conical roofs sheltering them, the hay piled high. In the rear on the left stands a high white farmhouse. Signed at the lower left, J. FRANcIs Murpny, ’77. Height, 7% inches; length, 12 inches ra | vX N y THORN BLOSSOMS In the centre of a green field bordering a middle distance decline is a large thorn tree exhibiting a plenitude of blossoms which brighten the atmosphere. Near by a figure in white is walking through the deep grass. Signed at the lower left, J.-F. -MuRrpay= 7 Height, 8 inches; length, 10 inches IN THE WOODS Dusky trees and brush of russet hue form the boundary of a bit of green field in the foreground, the whole observed in a dull light, and in the obscurity of the wooded background appears the gable of a large white house. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 10 inches; width, 8 inches 50% oS ee ee iw h gt Soe, ee ee } SUMMER Pit20 Vas Va Lie OLE aOR ‘Two very slender trees With delicate branches supporting dark red flowers grow in a green field just beyond a gray picket fence which extends across the picture. Near them are green bushes and a couple of white objects, and outside the fence the uneven ground is covered with grass. Signed at the fower left, J. Francis Murpny, July 27, ’70. Height, 11 inches; width, 9 inches [Illustrated above | - Si 179. THE OL WHITE p eriess een ee 180. /oo- [oie ee lo2, Vk ee An old white house in the country is all but smothered within the dense foliage of green trees which thickly surround it. ‘The corner of a white outbuilding projects nearby, and back of the trees are seen old yellow barns. More thick green trees stand on the right, across the farmyard, which is separated from a rough green field of the foreground by a gray fence, at which a nee faced cow is standing. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpnuy, ’ ee 0 Lines ee DESERTED A log cabin, its logs and mossy roof reflecting sundry lights and exhibiting soft and engaging color qualities, stands at the left, its door closed, a sort of doghouse extension going to pieces on the right, and beyond this a gray outbuilding. Weeds and wild bushes grow in front of it, and occasional trees at its rear, in quiet sunlight under a greenish-blue sky. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. On Board: Height, 8% inches; length, 12 inches WOODLAND sTUDWUyO« A study in the interior of a woo ede near Denmark Pond, New Jersey, in 1877. A study of warm and agreeable tones, tending toward the russet notes of fall and relieved by soft gray passages. “Lhe eye rests upon rocks and stumps bridging a small hollow at the centre of the picture, and upon slender tree trunks of various incline which stand beside it. And all around the ground is covered with leaves and grass and growing ferns and flowers. Signed at the lower left, J. F. Murpny. On Board: Height, to inches ; length, 12 inches 4 DEEP woops C‘¢ rt ‘ Woods of rich russet foliage appear in an orange glow, relieved by a couple of large tree trunks reflecting a white light and by a veiled green in the grass of the rolling foreground. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 12 inches; width, 8 inches THE DISTAN (the | : 7 ; Green fields, with a sprinkling of trees and \bfush, lie in the foreground in a calm and peaceful light. In the irregular wooded land in the background ~ are to be discerned the buildings of a village, the whole under a sky in which fused clouds of a light gray all but block out the soft blue. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 10 inches; length, 12 inches 52 ro yi j Matte oy =i 184. MOONLIGHT Sipe te Light from a full moon part way up the sky illumines a green sward which in the foreground is broken by a tiny pool whose surface shines brightly. Near the centre of the sward stands a sturdy tree, its dark branches without leaves, and back of it is a dark wood. Signed at the lower right, J. FRANcts Mourpuy. Height, 12 inches; width, 9 inches [ Illustrated above | nie jrcluy Deg OLD BARE OVEN An old oven of gray-white stones set up in the woods of New Jersey, where it was painted in 1877, stands under a rustic shelter built over it and in a strong light. Large stones prop it up, and chickens are feeding in the grass beside it. Behind it the woods are a dense mass of autumn color. Signed at the lower right, J. F. Murpuy. On Board: Height, 10% inches; length, 12% inches Ca v y abeus, GRAY ROCK On the left a hillside and a mass of dark foliage, and in front of it a tree in brown leafage. At the foot of the tree and in the foreground a rounding gray boulder, which catches rays of the fading hght from a darkening sky. Signed at the lower right, ip F, Murpuy, Height, 12 inches; width, 8 inches rN Y J ) : MINERS’ BLACKSMITH SHOP, HIBERNIA, NEW JERSE yeeros ‘The blacksmith’s shop is a gray log cabin of rough workmanship, with gable end facing the observer, and open doorway. It stands in a quiet and filtered sunlight and is almost buried by the thick woods that surround it. ‘Their foliage is in mellow russet tones, lightened by flowers, and above on the left is a glimpse of deep blue sky. Signed at the lower left, J. F. Murpny. Height, 10 inches; length, 12 inches 54 188. THE CREEK LL 9. 7 Baler je ‘The creek runs a transverse course ‘through meadow lands, crossing the pic- : Fr ture, and in it near the centre of the composition stands a red cow with a } 3Ee _—-white face. Near the farther bank of the stream a woman is rowing a boat, 3 and on a bench on the hither side another woman is seated. ‘The farther : meadow is wooded, the trees being a deep dark green, and an open spot is \ sunny, under a corner of bright sky. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. a Height, 10 inches; length, 12 inches [ Illustrated above | | 55 189. Eee 190. POE e neu Mtoe 2 | A level field crosses in the. foreground, at its boundary slender trees of grayish and bare trunks and limbs rising against a background hill of rough surface and autumn coloring; grayish rocks forming the spots of high light in a landscape of dark tone under a dark sky. Signed at the lower right, J. F. Murpny. Height, 10 inches; length, 12 inches 4. 2, theme ILL In the foreground a fresh green field in bright sunshine, in which a small and isolated fruit tree is growing at the left and casting its lonely shadow, while other trees grow along the serpentine border and toward the right. Among the larger trees and standing at the left in the background is a single tall poplar. Among the trees but standing out in the full sunshine are seen sundry humble buildings, including the sawmill of the title. Signed at the lower right, J. F. Murpny. Height, 9 inches; length, 14 inches THE WUE BIRCH ES White birches of young growth and very slender stand in groups at the edge of a brownish-yellow field, their trunks distinct and their dark green leafage rising against a darkening gray sky. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 10 inches; length, 12 inches 56 * Py aici ‘ ‘ : i s ” . alias rai, mis mae on ; =; he Lee ~ ae ae = eas, hee eee . ‘ POTN” a a in lem a aah a : SONG 12) i 5 eer SL ate eAVENUE OF TREES ; A landscape of aspect more familiar in France than in America. A narrow and placid river emerging from amid trees and grassy banks in the distance runs its quiet way forward, broadening in the foreground, the low bank on the right forming nearly a straight line while that on the left makes a turn and runs out of view. On that bank is a long line of tall and slender poplar trees, their eccentric foliage a rich and dark green and their shadows boldly reflected on the smooth gray water. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 14 inches; width, 1034 inches [Illustrated above | Si 193. AG k 9 fle THE VILLAGE A river more or less choked by growths of flag is seen in the foreground, a soft green darkened by the shadows of the flag and of the green bank and its slender green trees of lacework foliage. Relieving these shadows are spaces reflecting the light sky and a white house which stands at the centre of a populous village that spreads itself over the countryside. “The houses are mainly of gabled pattern, with grayish-white sides and reddish-brown roofs. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny. Height, 10% inches; length, 14 inches [Illustrated above | 58 - PRS piomls so wo 7 Pegi FRUIT FARM Level lands of a finely kept fruit farm cross the foreground, covered with thick green grass. In the background an extensive house, low with gray stucco walls and dark red-brown roofs, above which an occasional chimney ‘— projects, is in the shelter of green trees, some tall and picturesque and others the shorter fruit trees. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 10% inches; length, 14 inches [J eed above | . 59 200. EDS EDGE Hd: Ataatr The field of the foreground is yellowing in autumn and the sky above it is a cool gray. Across the middle distance are tall trees and bushes, in a line with a thicket at the right, all in green, with a trend toward the russet of autumn. Signed at the lower left, J. F. Murpuy. : Height, 10 inches; length, 12 inches WwoOOD STUMP LY, In a half-light a section of a, woodland is depicted, mainly green in herbage and foliage, with bits of color showing in higher illumination and a few slender second-growth trees. Among them are the dark stumps of larger trees which have yielded to the axe. Signed at the lower right, J. F. Murpuy. — gt OX bte inches; length, 13% inches v THESPOND ; G ; Water of a pom fills the foreground, its surface light from a light gray sky and marked by the dark reflections of tall trees at the left of its farther shore, and of short bushy. green trees which cluster at the right. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny. Height, 14 inches; width, 1034 inches INTERIOR A view in the interior of a countryJlandscape of hills and woods and fields, in a warm afternoon light. In the foreground a level field gray and green in the sunshine, and at the left three tall and slender trees of grayish trunks, the shadows of the trunks marked boldly on the incline of a bank in the middle distance. “Che bank also supports other trees and a bush, and on a higher mound beyond it on the right are more trees, observed against a glow- ing yellow sky. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny. | ' ‘ eight 91 inches ; length, 1334 inches THE CECELE vit lieke De Che ae A hamlet of French aspect, of low cottages with gray walls and brown roofs, and standing among green trees, presents itself in tranquility beneath a darkening gray sky. Green turf and a gray picket fence surround the houses, beyond a brown plowed field. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. v4) Height, 11%4 inches; length, 14 inches AMONG THE TREES trek tte Among the trees the gable end of a large gray building is seen on high land | of the middle distance, standing forth in sunshine which gilds the grass of foreground field of level land below it. A clump of green foliage appears at the right, and on the left are detached trees some of whose foliage is of a delicate autumn hue. Signed at the lower right, J. Francis Murpny. Height, 11 inches; length, 16 inches 60 AU SABLE rw& pteox we Sie ites Murphy in an early period, in which the contrast of his style with that of his later period can be clearly studied. ‘The dark green river crosses the fore- ground between low rocky banks, and on the farther one the sunlight brightly illumines the soil between the rocks. Above the river the bank reaches high, and is densely studded with trees of varying form, all exhibiting rich green foliage whose terminal branches stand out in the sunlight, relieved by dark shadows. Signed at the lower right, J. F. Murpuy, ’74. Height, 15% inches; width, 12 inches [Illustrated above] Ort @4. Solo Y _, . . oa = .— @ kK 61 Oo. OO ae / Boe: 204. 205; ge OT eae a, a i ie es THE DARK TREES Trees with a mass of deep green foliage are dark in the centre of the com- position and on the right, their site declining somewhat and a single large tree detaching itself from the mass and displaying its trunk in sunshine against a green hill. At the top of the hill a gray building stands out against | the background trees, and in the foreground a gray path wanders over a rolling knoll. Signed at the lower left, J. F. Murpuy, 7 Height, 11 inches; length, 16 inches \ Gh Zp NEAR SOUTH CORINTH, N. Y. A sunlit landscape of rolling hills is displayed under a fair sky, the hilltops and sections of their sides well wooded, the foliage all a deep green. ‘The intervening fields mainly green are varied by a field of brown, and in the middle distance rests a group of farm buildings. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 11 inches; length, 16 inches F- | A THE FARM WU ~a Poe ee, A peaceful comfortable looking farm, a corner of a field of which in the foreground is displayed in sunshine, against an abutting hill on the right which is clad in a russet coating. ‘The grass of the field is a soft grayish- green, and beyond the field is a white farmhouse and other buildings, among them a large red barn. Near the farmhouse étands a tall white birch, and another tree spreads its foliage above the barn. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 11 inches; length, 16 inches fr } a THE CLEARING o. os free Woods amongst which tall green pine trees figure above trees of colorful foliage occupy a hollow amid broad green fields of cleared land, standing in a flood of sunshine. Stumps of felled trees dot the landscape, and the fore- ground displays short herbage of warm russet hue. Signed at the lower left, Ae Francis Murpuy. Height, 11 inches; length, 15% inches 62 206. LITTLE COUNTRY The space shown is small but the country is real, an agricultural country of comfortable farms and dotted with white houses and a red barn, which are perched among the hills. From a level field of land plowed and harrowed EES _— in the foreground, bounded on the right by a brush heap, green fields cut — by gray paths rise toward the houses and on to wooded crests before a light , eray sky. Signed at the lower left, J. Francs Murpny. Height, 11 inches; length, 16 inches [[llustrated above | ee eee 207% fee 208. [LG 209. ) 6. PR WOR pe a es SAR pd —en THE BARN An old farmyard with thin grayish-green grass and yellow stubble carpeting it occupies the foreground, in a flood of sunlight. At its far corner on the left stands an old gray barn of large proportions, one door open, ‘To its right the mounds of haystacks raise their grayish masses against a green Jill of the background, whose slopes are marked by hedge lines and dotted with trees. Saned at the lower right, J. Francis Murpny. Height, 11 inches; length, 16 inches THE PRIDE OF THE MEADOWS Tall thistles with purplish flowers grow in a spreading bunch toward the left in a meadow of thick, deep grass, and more of them are seen far at the right. Back of them is a mass of the dark green foliage of woods, under a dark gray sky. Signed at the lower right, J. Francis Murpny. Height, 11 inches; length, 14 inches THE ele WM: Lato A high and rounding hill with neighboring slopes given to green fields forms a high horizon under a grayish sky, the foot of the slope marked by a confused line of trees and brush brownish in tone. At the right a gray stream appears, skirting a bit of green field in the central foreground, which is marked by clusters of tall gray stumps. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis MurpuHy. Height, 11 inches; length, 16 inches y 4 rie — 4 : S NEAR ARKVILLE | Unobtrusive sunlight is reflected from the ends of white, yellow and gray buildings nestling among the trees of a hillside which is observed against a gray sky. “The buildings are near the centre of the composition, and near the outermost ones are detached trees of tall growth. ‘The field in front of them is wild land covered with coarse grasses and other herbage, some green and some brownish. Signed at the lower right, J. Francis Murpuy, 95 Height, 11 inches; length, 16 inches 64 t wy 211. APPROACHING FALL Wild land in a level country is covered with coarse green grass turning ? brownish over large patches. ‘The sky is a cold mixture of grays, and the [S~ atmosphere one of desolation. Near the centre a few gray trees, mostly leafless, group themselves, the monotony relieved by a bunch of red foliage at the right. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny. Height, 12 inches; length, 16% inches [Illustrated above | 65 [St- 212. pO ee 214; EO “THE PUMPKIN, EIELD ee y 2128 Nestling among green trees in a hollow of the background is a Fanner | whose brown Cee aer and a white gable are visible in the sunshine. Great trees of bushy growth and nearer the foreground are silhouetted against the light gray sky, and the foreground itself is given to a green field which con- tains a stack of corn stalks and at their foot lie two plump and yellow pumpkins. Signed at the lower right, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 11 inches; length, 15 inches — yy; 2. Tienes, DRY seco ROAD A sky of fleeting shower clouds is broken: by eae areas of white, 1 : a bland atmosphere prevails over the landscape. Along the right a wavering country road runs from the foreground and loses itself mh the middle distance amid a thick growth of trees, their foliage a soft gray-green in the quiet diffused light. A single tall tree of bifurcate branches is outstanding at the left of the road. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny. Height, 14 inches; width, 12 inches THE TROUT Bee: Saget The trout pool, with grayish surface blending with the greenish reflections of its surroundings, lies at the lower left, at the foot of a hill which mounts on the right and in the background. Its herbage is green and grayish-yellow, with feathery bushes near the water and thick bushes and stunted trees in the middle ground and at the lower right. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpnuy. Height, 11 inches; length, 16% inches 66 ? : 2: ; | - ie Fem Ue ha pe a aa aad loyal Pe ee ee ee ee 4 ep ; ‘S- " sia) te var, a at r r oe fie Tis oe ‘pu! “ a 4 is y , a Py ee Ae hy te a a (i a ae eee ¥ (ss rs ae : he _— ’ m . = . me on vr om ae ee sae —_ a ee ee ee ie oe eo een ; i i roe el oaks r 2. MB ea pie | fi s ion cieel bain 4.4 . Malt | novie ¥ : = : Shere tes Se ee i onl hE ee it ’ ae 5 tee oa > 215. HILLSIDE In the soft light of fading day a hillside slopes from the right, where its height blocks out any sky light, the lowering surface of the earth at the left —_ revealing a bit of soft grayish sky. The hillside and the level foreground are carpeted with green grass intermingled with reddish growths, and are dotted with scattered trees and bushes brown in autumn, and the landscape as a whole seems under the influence of a dull red glow. Signed at the lower right, J. Francis Murpny. Height, 11 inches; length, 16% inches [ Illustrated above | 67 Lee 216. AUTUMN TONE A tonal picture of rich quality, and rare in the atmospheric tones leading to the fine sky. A mass of color with finely related values.: Dominating is a foliage mass of russet-orange hue at the upper right, the mass and the color aD CO, — tones diminishing toward the ground, which is also strewn with russet above a strip of grayish-green. ‘To left the sky is a mass of white cloud, with deep blue -struggling through high at the left. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. | nit 4 Height, 16 inches; width, 12 inches We. Be 217. HILL 6 Wea La ; A round-topped hill, broad and gently sloping, reaches its apex near the centre high in a light gray sky. Diffused sunlight illumines the landscape, WA Vi 5 a series of fields covered with sage-green grass and a nebulous grayish brush. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny. Height, 11 inches; length, 16% inches LtL.ttam oto) bE - GRist A A yellow mill with neighboring buildings of brown and red stands at the LI OO. oo left, the group of buildings skirting the edge of a broad green field extend- i ing over the slope of a hill. Beside the buildings stand several trees, differing in form and in the hue of their varying foliage. Signed at the lower right, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 11 inches; length, 16% inches 68 | . 219. MILL m2. 9 QE ELIE PID + ‘Three gray trees bare of leaveSAtand at thé left on the farther side of a mill | pond, on which in the foreground their pale reflections are marked. ‘The RQ < _ grass and bushy growths about the head of the pond are turning to rosy tones, ' and in the distance in the valley are the mill and the houses of a village. Beyond it a treeless hillside under a blue-gray sky. Signed at the lower . I right, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 11 inches; length, 16 inches | | [ Illustrated above | | 69 | | "290, THICKET 221. GROUP OF TREES Green sward interrupted by. a russet patch oc soft be which brings out sHoueD Ty une : ora 2 so) — OUTSKIRTS OF A VILLAGE A most vigorous painting done in a very bold manner. Fields of rich dark green extend to right and left and in the distance, under an active sky of rich grayish-white clouds. “The tone of the whole, sky and land, is low, subdued, and the whole seems to glisten softly. At left in middle distance a tall and somewhat scraggly tree rises from the level land beside a bushy green tree. Back in the distance and toward the right rich yellow haystacks show themselves dimly, and beyond them appear the scattered buildings of a village. Signed at the lower right, J. Francis Murpuy, 1920. Height, 12 inches; length, 16 inches [ Illustrated above | Jak 220: Wl ee D2, a te YO ON THE FLATS The flats are green with edo grass, and near the edge of a "wyood are the stumps of trees which have been felled. Along the background range | > slender trees of feathery foliage, verging upon russet tones, and back of them the trees are dense. At right trees of curled and bending trunks stand as outposts, their foliage above the picture limits. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny. , | Height, 11 inches; length, 16% inches THE MEADOWS ae Down in the meadows which -are a dark green inde a darkening gray sky trees and brush at the edge of a woodland come into view in the softening light. In front of them are scraggly limbs lying on the ground, and at the distant left appears an old rail fence. Low trees near the left display reddish foliage, and toward the right are bushes in flower. Signed at the lawer left, J. Francis Murpuy. | } | . Height, 11 inches; length, 16 inches 72 COMING woe: , 7 et ; ‘The sere season is heralded by the atmosphere and the chilly swirling sky of grayish clouds. ‘The air seems dark though in daylight and has a reddish cast toward the shadows. On the right is the edge of a wood, thick in its interior, the foliage thinning out as the higher branches are reached. Out- posts of varying height extend from it to well past the middle of the picture. On the ground around the grass is a dark green. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 16 inches; width, 12 inches [ Illustrated above | 2268 TOO 237). ee a LE ODE EL. POOL - Ht The deep pool lies in the central foreground and reflects the light from a grayish sky. It lies in the midst of a rolling country rank with rich vegeta- tion in deep green. Bushy trees stand at the left, and beyond them, in an open field near the centre, is a cluster of yellow and gray barns. Other buildings are to be seen farther off among the trees. pene at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. : \ , abt + Lira. Ca A French cottage, low and long, with gray walls and a brown tile roof, 7 above which two chimneys stand out, lies athwart the picture, the nearmost of a series of parallel buildings on low level fields whose grassy carpet is J : interrupted by patches of yellowish earth. Bushes and short trees vary the — - green of the grass, and at the left stands a dark gray barn. ‘The light is fading and the gray-blue sky shows numerous clouds. Painted in France in 1886. Signed at the lower left, J. Francrs Murpny. Height, 12% inches; length, 16 inches % 74 Height, 11 inches; length, 16 inches a pie , wre = - iy = Bs — 24h. SOO. SEIN FREES A level green meadow of the foreground leads to low hills amid which cottages and farm buildings, yellow, white and red, are assembled in the middle distance, while the hills rise on toward a light gray sky and at the left become heavily wooded. At the boundary of the foreground meadow a light screen of very slender trees extends athwart the canvas. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny. Height, 11 inches; length, 16% inches [Illustrated above | 15 220; SO 220. Gee Ln Spi ee Lt ce Bi a THE COVERED BRIDGE | | | High land bordering a middle distance ravine is green and gray across the foreground of the picture and on the right stands a low gray building amid trees whose foliage is green and russet. In the central distance is indicated the covered bridge. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 11 inches; length, 16 inches » | ig v nN. J Are THE. Ol) ee : An old rail fence zigzags along the left of the picture and a brown footpath wanders through. green grass alongside it, both losing themselves in the middle distance. “Trees grow on both sides, as path and fence lead through a clearing, where mild sunlight falls, the background being wholly woods. Signed at the lower right, J. Francis Murpuy, 797. Height, 11 inches; length, 16 inches C1 Ee. MID-JULY | Silence broods over a landscape of midsummer richness in a mild, subdued light. A green meadow field in the foreground is marked off by a rail fence in the middle distance from a lot filled with trees of thick foliage. In the background and bounding the meadow on the right are low green hills. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 11 inches; length, 16 inches 76 — es 232, THE Peaows 8.0 i Be ep Ca— Level green meadow land of the foreground, lying “n soft sunshine, is streaked with the shadow of a tree standing near the centre and is enclosed within a mass of woodland which is seen green at its sides and a russet brown in the background. Near the central tree is a group of outstanding trees of tall and slender grayish trunks. Signed at the lower left, J. Francts Murpny. Height, 11 inches; length, 16% inches [Illustrated above | Le Saal had i Oa 23308 AAS: ae the t trees ttn Hbeminee a ee An noe Si a waning gray sky. Recon of logs lie about on the the brown. earth of a cultivated field. Signed at hen we Morpry. . ee . . : , 34 THE HILL es 3 lower right. tts a Rie at the en in The. a us, eeu) — creamy 0 gray buildings, in a scattered group. Si : J. Francis Murpny. | ao 1: 225: —_—_ Per PaRAY DAY ‘The delightful atmospheré/of a gray day without showers prevails over a sylvan landscape interrupted by open spaces and threaded by a broad brook. ‘The sky is gray and the bank bordering the brook is a lighter gray, while the water itself is a silvery gray mirror, as the brook winds from the fore- ground and vanishes in the middle distance. Meadow lands back from the waterside are covered with green grass and short brownish growths, a leaning tree holding a few lingering leaves crosses the picture, and in the middle- ground are trees whose foliage has turned a reddish-brown. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny, ’908. Height, 11 inches; length, 16% inches ‘| Illustrated above | 79 XY 226, Ak Hovell | THE VILLAGE A village of low gray cottages with dark red-brown roofs, many gables and numerous upstanding chimneys is depicted at the end of day when the light is fading. ‘The houses are clustered closely together, a few trees rise above the rooflines and shorter trees stand across the front of the group, in thick grass which borders a placid river. The stream winding from the centr4D= -~ distance broadens and occupies most of the foreground, its bosom a mirror of the peaceful village. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 10% inches; length, 14 inches [ Illustrated above | 80 @a7. DRY BROOK ae Kf. if Grass-covered round-topped hills in the distance bound a valley through which runs the course of a dry brook, the dry bed grayish. At left and in the middle distance along its banks are yellow buildings and white cottages, and on the right of the empty bed of the brook are trees of dark russet hue and, Bey others without leaves, similar trees appearing also among the houses on the “left. In the foreground a couple of felled tree trunks lie athwart the pic- ture on the pale green grass, which is withering under the drought. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 11 inches; length, 15% inches [ [/lustrated above | 81 238) (RO ESTE | ln IO0D.— Bright sunshine floods a green landscape under a quiet sky. ‘Trees of green foliage sparkle in the light and cast their shadows on the fresh green grass. Leading through the grass a broad yellow sandy path from the foreground makes a graceful turn to the left in the middle distance, where it continues over a small footbridge crossing a ravine. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy, 798. Height, 11 inches; length, 16 inches [ {llustrated above | §2 ba: 239. moO leOr PHE HILL : The rounding hill covered“with a mass of dark brg#n autumn woods mounts nearly to the uppermost limits of the canvas. Below in the middle ground a green field intervenes, dotted by gray-white buildings and one with a red roof, below which appears a narrow strip of woods. In front of this a green field supporting a group of gray trees, a fruit tree whose foliage forms a circular mass of dark tone, and a meandering gray fence, extends trans- versely along a gray field of land without turf. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 11 inches; length, 16% inches [Zllustrated above | 83 240. bli Dp 242% Lees 47 Gree A SKETCH—BARREN LANDSCAPE A “No Man’s Land” freely sketched and charmingly rendered. Light yellow clayey land declining from right toward the left slopes also forward to a roughly level surface in the foreground which, once clothed in green, is marked by dark brown spots and a trace of russet hue. On the slope are other dark patches to relieve the light buff surface, and at the centre two slender weed-like growths rise above the crest and stand out against the light murky sky. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 16 inches; length, 22 inches f Yel Le SKETCH—A BIT OF WOODLAND A bit of woodland seen in a soft light against a light grayish sky and at a_ time of autumn tones. ‘The vista before the eye is one of rising land wearing a fall carpet, and bounded on either hand by young trees of slender pro- portions and a minimum of feathery foliage. “Those on the right are tall, those on the left of lesser height, and though vague all are sketched in freely and with an obvious note of sympathy. Signed at the lower left, J. FRANcrIs Mourpnuy. Height, 19 inches; width, 14 inches THE CORN STACKS " Soon after the corn harvest when the earth and its vegetation are still green a section of a field is pictured, where the corn sheaves are stacked in tall pointed piles in a corner at the left. Near by on the grass of the foreground les a ripe pumpkin, the warm yellow of its skin frosted by a reflection of the light from a grayish sky. Across the middleground extends a picket fence, separating the field from an orchard-garden at the rear of which a gray gable comes into view, and beyond the corn stacks rises a tall tree of sinuous trunk, displaying masses of full green foliage. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy, ’I1I. Height, 20% inches; length, 16 inches 84 aa. = SUMMER ; Summer is in the air, its influence radiates rom the canvas, which depicts a sunny hillside pasture in a country of many trees. “The land of the pasture rolls downward from the left, bounded in the distance by full and bushy green trees, their foliage dense and reflecting various degrees of sunshine. ‘The foot of the pasture is fenced off from the marshy foreground, where the grass and bushes are deep and through which a brook is winding. ‘The bright summer sky is a screened turquoise and filled with soft billows of white. Signed at the lower right, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 11% inches; length, 16 inches [ Illustrated above | 85 244. 245. Roa LE. Eon LATE AFTERNOON At left a slender tree crowned with a circular mass of russet foliage grows in a level plain covered with short wild grass. A cool grayish green still prevails in the grass, which is yielding, however, to the advances of the autumn season, as russet patches here and there show. Before and to right of the russet tree stands a smaller tree of an unusual growth, its slender branches separating widely soon after they diverge from the low gray trunk only a few inches from the ground. At their tips are considerable sprays of feathery foliage. It is a time of half-lght, and the reflection from the grayish sky of late afternoon causes sections of the trees to be mirrored in a broad andsshallow pond a part of which occupies the lower foreground at the right. Signed at the lower right, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 16 inches; length, 22 inches THE HAYSTAC b A corner of a farm is pictured, the land rising on the right to a dilapidated gray fence separating the foreground from an adjoining field. ‘The grass is green and interrupted by an occasional bushy weed. At the left a woman stands in the middleground, at the head of a wandering path and beside a tree full of green leafage. Near her and just beyond the gray fence a haystack rises, a dark mass, toward a wavering gray sky. ‘The light is dim, toward evening, and calm is settling over the farm. Sgined at the lower right, J. Francis Murpny, 84. Height, 1§ inches; length, 20 inches 86 fe MILL RACE, ARKVILLE An inviting glimpse of a lively mill race coursing downward and forward toward the right, the nearer bank one of coarse loose grass, the farther one massed with bushes, some of which show notes of autumn color, and among them a few scraggling tree trunks. In the background a high red building projects into view and before it on the left is seen the corner of a brown one. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 11 inches; length, 1534 inches [ Illustrated above | 87 é : # oJ een 247. THE PATH JJ: Through a greensward lush and fresh under a sky with lingering shower clouds a gray footpath leads back through the foreground and turning to OO .— the right loses itself in the middle distance. A few posts at the left mark the line of a fence, and opposite them ‘on the right is a growth of trees with bare branches. Across the background is the duskiness of a dense wood, brown in autumn. Signed at the lower right, J. Francis Murpny, 1897. Height, 11 inches; length, 1534 inches [ Illustrated above 88 on t » UP, 248. fee LONE TREE A vision of Arkville, where the artist had a summer home. ‘The lone tree, a pine whose straight trunk is visible, carrying near the top of the picture a single drooping branch, stands on the right in a sunny green field. Near by is a gray-white house and a scattered group of other buildings, partly over- shadowed by the light green foliage of other trees, and back of the whole is a mounting hillside of reddish-yellow hue. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy, Arkville. Height, 11 inches; length, 15% inches [ Illustrated above | 89 249. OPEN Orie es. /378-.- Vase BIRCHES Uneven ground yellow in the sunshine and touched with brownish tones is bounded in the rear by low mounds of orange note, under a sky of faint and even light gray. Near the centre the white limbs of a bifurcate birch rise stark toward the sky, their shadows marked upon the soil, and beyond them a line of trees extends toward the distance on the right. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. u IN JUNE ub Lh_ The full fresh green of early summer seems to surround the observer as he looks at a mass of greenery represented in a sheltered recess where filtered sunlight is everywhere diffused. On the ground the deep verdure fairly billows, and creeps around and partly over a broad brown rock at the centre of the composition. Near one end of this the bending trunk of a slender tree which extends above the picture’s limits is relieved against the background of greenery and a bit of grayish sky. In the background the green foliage of bushes mingles with that of trees whose trunks are buried in the mass and are not visible, and at the left the leafy mass reveals a partial shadow. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny, 1911. Height, 16 inches; length, 22 inches v Height, 16 inches; length, 22 inches I INDIAN SUMMER tytaclett LAAs A white cottage with a built-on wing holds a place of isolatién in a country of hills. The hills, higher on the right, descend to a knoll on which the cottage is situated, to left of centre, and on to the foreground. Dimly seen fences divide them into fields, Back of the cottage is a wood, on higher land, the trees barely perceptible in a haze in which sunlight is nearly lost. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny. Height, 16 inches; length, 22 inches FALL MIST re e¢ The eye looks through a misty atmosphere toward a mixed grayish sky. “The land is wild and uneven and a moderately high middleground is attractive in mingled tones of yellow and a warm brown. On it grow a few saplings with * sparse leafage still clinging to their branches, and in the foreground the land descends to a silvery pool at the right lower corner. “Through the mist the distant higher land is hazy and vague. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. | Height, 22 inches; width, 16 inches go gaya ot asc aE I me Li enh 253. INDIAN SUMMER bit. DPitc CH A tp Sunshine of the late season in a pleasant part of the year illumines through an atmospheric haze a hillside on the left where the remaining grass is bounded by a wood, and in the remaining portion of the picture, comprising the middleground and foreground, shines upon a few trees, a dense mass of -— growing brush of a dark hue, and some yellowish flag. ‘The flag is bordered by the water of a foreground marsh, and the whole is under the soft and somewhat mystic light of a grayish sky. Signed at the lower left, J. Francrs Murpny, ’97. Height, 16 inches; width, 11 inches [T/lustrated above | gli 254. FROSTY MORNI (UM hry J. PaO Cool air’s nipping touch condenses the haze in an autumn atmosphere under a relentless green-gray sky in which some tossing clouds appear. At left is the end of a thick wood, whose taller trees in front rise to the picture limits, still wearing their generous foliage all of which is of light yellow tone. In the denser parts of the wood the foliage is of darker tone, and the autumnal hues are relieved and brightened by light reflected from a large tree stump standing just before the wood. On the right is a rising section of bank covered with brush in according fall colors, and in the open spaces of the “centre and foreground the colors of the herbage are in sympathy. In the centre are evidences of a small pool. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis MurpPuy. | ve | Height, 19 inches; length, 26 inches 255. A°WOOD bio ee Out in a sylvan country a clearing is shown, made in a plenteous wood lot, the woods surrounding it. “The surface of the clearing is a pale gray-green and dotted with short stumps of trees which have been removed. In the background and on the left the woods, rising on a green bank, are more or less thick and their foliage is marked by patches of warm russet, against a grayish sky. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny. ) Panel: Height, 23 inches; length, 33 inches 256. OLD E. / In a green lawn an old gray house of stone and plaster, with dark brown roofs, stands in the sunlight, under a sky active with shifting clouds. On 4 )S: —the right it looks out across the lawn upon a line of trees with full foliage of arich dark green. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny. Height, 16 inches; length, 22 inches [Illustrated above | 0-5 We Pee S50. 257. EDGE OF THE WOODS ssh “at the lower left, iE: FRancis MuRPHY. F lat land of uneven surface is cme in pee anc ry he The eke j is yet denne sad casts a while extending from the left over a large part of th second growth trees, whose slender trunks stand in sil dividually before the light sky. The foliage above | is x Br H Height, 4 ; u tutrated| 94 POG OF THE WOODS Catalogue No. 257 258. GREEN SEASON 7 a /350.- a habe 2598 FROSTY CLEARING Gio Green is the grass of the foreground, which encloses a small pond, and siceua that of the fields which recede toward the centre and left of the composition, | where they are marked by hedge rows and other dividing lines, In middle i distance toward the left are small detached trees of slim foliage, leading up to a dense tree group on the right with masses of dark green foliage. Signe at the lower left, J. Francis Murpnuy.. Height, 17 inches ; length bateoes | Illustrated | A life of observation in the country, which does not seek the shelter of | then = tawn immediately at the close of hot weather, is rewarded by a glimpse of _ the woods on a frosty morning. Man has been at work in these woods, to = such effect that only second growths. are in sight, these slender trees rising a at all sides and with their wavering foliage screening the light from a cold — ae gray sky. In the foreground and through the centre the land has been cleared, leaving the roughage to mark and render picturesque its uneven sur- face. The tones are russet and green with deeper yellows showing in various _ parts of the ground. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Panel: Height, 254 inches; length, 33Y% inches ow <2 tes fla meas se : » s i eee "wry # : ee nT a ae —_ te (2 5 eat” imi de Maiieliog ; zs sd * is x 96 GREEN SEASON Catalogue No. 258 260. Ole ASO. THE Meee Jitt_o_bl 4 The spectator looks through the broad opening between two slender trees which form parts of groups, that on the left more dense than the one on the right, which is formed of saplings in light yellow foliage. “The foliage of the trees to the left is denser and a darker yellow and also dark brown, “The rough foreground is green grass mingled with autumn colors, and as the land rises gently toward the distance its character is little changed. “The sky is gray and soft. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny. Height, 16 inches; length, 22 inches [ Illustrated | MIDSUMMER woop A woodland interior of cool and quiet charm, all fresh green developed to a ripened growth and inviting a midsummer repose. ‘The greensward is soft and beckoning all across the foreground, the surface a bit rolling and irreg- ular, and rising at either side in low and gently sloping banks. At the right the view is confined by the union of the turf on the bank with the fohage of the lower branches, while on the left a vista of a grayish sky is noted between bank and branches. For the rest, the fresh green of the trees, blotting out the sky, confines the view within the umbrageous canopy of verdure which invites to loitering. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny. Height, 24 inches; length, 33 inches 98 plttet -O) bale CNG Catalogue No. 260 262. BENNETT’S HILL A hill broad of surface and easy of slope rises toward a high horizon of grayish tone, the decline of the hill being toward the left and toward the foreground. Its top is mainly covered with brownish woods, short and thick, __ a single clearing crossing it and dividing the left from the right. On the ; = : 7. 50 ES nearer slopes below the timber line are green fields which continue in the ‘ foreground, which they share with cultivated fields. The middle distance is occupied by a cluster of buildings of a small hamlet, the walls mainly white __ _and the roofs red, and other buildings appear near the left foreground, over the tops of reddish-russet trees. Signed at the lower left, J. FRANcIs Murpuy, 1906. | . a Height, 16 inches; length, 22 inches — [Lllustrated | 263. 2 aan PAA ae eee , October the golden month is treated from the arboreal, not the agricultural | point of view. The corner of a cleared field is pictured, occupying the fore- ara s ground, and beyond a fence is observed vaguely a land of brush which Ps <2 extends from right to left across the canvas. At the corner in left middle ~ distance trees are growing, a small number of diverse type, and of those which retain any of their foliage the leaves are a ripe yellow, a cold red and suggestions of brown. Near by is an eloquent stump of an old tree cut low * to the ground. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny, ae Height, 24 inches; length, 36 inches 100 sb, do BILGE | chad BS Bie BENN 262 Catalogue No. : 264. Geer 265. 60-0. - tb. LMer1 LATE. SEPTEMBER The fading year is warmly alive with the-bland =ficepeetnee late Sep- tember, and the countryside is beguiling beneath a soft and vague autumn haze. ‘The grass is a subdued green and gradually yellowing, over broad and slightly uneven fields which rise gradually toward the distant horizon. The sky is just enough veiled by clouds to be in keeping with the landscape. SS At the left of the picture, in the middle distance, is a group of short trees of “a light foliage all in the yellow of the season. A graceful outpost tree is nearly _ ~ bare of leaves. Signed at the lower right, J. Francis Murpuy, 1901. Height, 16 inches; length, 22 inches ; [ Illustrated | f - (ida BATE wr (YO Almost alone on a silent a clearing stands a tree of gray trunk, iver ing a few of its lower branches, all without leaves, the upper part of the tree rising out of the picture. At either side of its base are growing saplings, also. am athe leaves, and distant on the right is another. ‘The ground bristles with small stumps of trees that are gone, and in the close-growing herbage are — notes of green and yellow, brown and red. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy, 1913. Height, 24 inches; length, 36 inches 102 Were otc br Fiver R: Catalogue No. 264 266. THE WILLOWS 650.- art iad nl ks he eS a Vaud MN One of the bright green pictures that Murphy could paint when he got away from his favorite season of autumn. ‘The carpet of lush grass crossinigegs the foreground is soft and moist, betokening the unseen brook where the willows grow. ‘The willows are not pictured as individuals but as a group — of trees whose mass of foliage spreads itself before a mixed white and blue — sky. The leafage is dark green and a light yellowish-green, and is so thick Murpny. [ [/lustrated | me ae LATE AFTERNOON nasfbeoeee The glow of late afternoon warms the russet- red of the foliage of a clump ‘ of trees standing at the centre of the composition and extending by lessening growths toward the right and out of the picture. The sky is a light and es even gray and the foreground a delicate mass of rich coloring in sym- pathetic hues. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny. Height, 24 inches; length, 36 inches 104 Height, 19 inches; length, 26 inches ( ote eh that the tree trunks are Lardy seen. Signed at the lower left, J. FRancts Eire ls LiOswes Catalogue No. 266 268. Wore 2609. AL 00.— AN te L Joma Rail fences going to pieces suggest that the farm is an old one, and there are no visible fields under cultivation. The foreground is a rough surface, broad and covered with coarse green grass and occasional sticks. A little way back — on the right the gray rail fence begins, and extends back toward the middle distance and the left a short distance, where its line is continued by a receding line of old apple trees which retain some of their foliage. Appropriately enough the scene is in autumn, and the gray sky displays only small patches of white cloud. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny. | Height, 24 inches; length, 28 Ni [ Illustrated | EDGE OF A CLEARING Rough land and nearly level has been cleared of trees for the most part, -a single leafless and leaning trunk appearing in the foreground to right of — centre before a transparent screen of sapling-brush which extends to the right boundaries of the picture. Far at left a tree or bush of feathery foliage rises from the ground which is there a pale gray-green and blends with its sur- roundings which trend to a soft and dull buff-yellow, relieved by the darker notes of scattered chips of wood: ‘The sky is gray, with lights in the clouds at the left. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny. Height, 24 inches; length, 36 inches rp... 31/9 -2010969 + Le 106 eles PoAL KRAVE AN 268 O. N Catalogue 270. oie Si a ae 1907 From a high horizon huge broad-topped hills decline to the foreground. ‘They are covered with close russet-orange herbage varying in tone, while down in the foreground the green of the grass persists, toward the left, and on the right stand two small trees bare of leaves. Beyond the green grass on the left stands a building group, gray, red and white, and from a chimney — white smoke is curling. Over the tops of the hills the clouds are gray and dark and cold. Signed at the lower right, J. Francis Murpuy, 1907. Height, 24 inches; length, 30 inches [ Illustrated | cnet INDIAN SUMMER 5 Atmosphere of the summer of Saint Martin reaches the spectator from a landscape having all the charm of summer with the quiet colors of fall. Woods are gray witha russet blend, a mass in the background and on the left, largely a display of foliage, relieved by light gray trunks of trees taking various courses upward and along horizontal lines. The surface of the fore- ground works into trunks and foliage, its weathered herbage blending with the neighboring hues, and the whole under a sky vague and hazy in ‘the grayness of its hue. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. ~ Height, 24 inches; length, 36 ies 108 - ; Pe levi ERs -1/0:0.7 Catalogue No. 270 Digi Pee UPLAND GORNFIELD A real section of the agricultural country, put most naturalistically upon — canvas and in a soft, restrained glow of autumn sunshine. ‘The air and the light are mellow, and mellow are the pumpkins in a pile in the right fore- ground. ‘They have been rolled down a hill which slopes from the left, and its surface is dotted with others which are awaiting the harvest. ‘Ihe hillside has been a cornfield, and together with adjoining fields in the middle distance is filled with stacks of sheaves which have been piled in Indian mound fashion. On the higher hillside at left are trees all but transparent against the sky, so sparse is the foliage they have retained, and at the foot of the hill a farmer with a cart is gathering up his produce. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy, 1880, Height, 24% inches; length, 33% inches From the National Academy Exhibition, 1880 | [/lustrated | CHANGING De Under a blustering and windy sky the landscape is a confusion of soft colors amid the changes of seasons. Green is giving way to the gray and russet notes of autumn, in leafage and herbage. ‘“[rees forming the outposts of a wood on the left mark their gentle silhouettes upon the sky, and below them the foreground and middleground are a nearly level stretch of grass-covered land, dotted with a mixture of markings. In the distance on the right a bank of greenish land projects nearly to the middle of the composition, where it slopes off before meeting an edge of the woodland on the left. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 24 inches; length, 36 inches 110 Persie iN DCO RINE DET D Catalogue No. 272 27 A LARLY SO Case) bits Vash Sa gs ae 2] Jo0- 5- In the balmy atmosphere of early fall, with the sunshine barred by the pres- ence of a plenitude of grayish-white clouds in the low-seeming sky, a section of the countryside is spread before us, diversified in its features and agreeable in the totality of their make-up. ‘Trees stand in different planes at left and right, beyond a rail fence in the left foreground and near piles of brownish brush in the right middle distance. ‘Their foliage is brown and yellowish and has not yet been greatly depleted by the autumn winds. ‘The land between and about them is irregular in its surface and is covered by gray- green grass interspersed by nubs of brownish weed. Signed at the lower _ left, J. Francis Murpny. Height, 24 inches; length, 33 inches on | Illustrated | FROSTY MORNING ~ From the left a mound of yellowish clay slopes to a central depression which is bounded by a slightly higher foreground and rises toward the horizon. There the land seems to meet a lively sky of active clouds low in tone but enlivened by streaks of white nebulae. ‘The pale greenish surface of the ground appears to reflect the yellows of the clay mound, which mingle further with russet and dark brown notes of the foreground. At left a screen of slender saplings, emphasized by a single bolder trunk at centre, defines itself against the landscape and the sky. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. Height, 24 inches; length, 36 inches 112 or OC) Bik R ARI YO 274 gue No. Catalo ) the lower left, J. FRANCIS Murpuy. Departing from his ioe for auiturint contemplation of its rich greens. A full dark green i . covers the foreground and middle distance, and a darker ¢ appearing the gray trunks of detached trees at its ed me the painter here devotes himself to ‘midsummer of the trees. The whole is in diffused shadow under left is a wood with masses of dark foliage rising out of out near the centre. On the right miremtrees) of a wood their foliage seeming to waver in the. quietness of the # Teight, u llustrated 114 IAG Jigee Catalogue No. 276 oes : ad ! FARM ny Pe ra be ie dA : Gaus One of the poetic landscapes of which the artist was fond, a fall landscape with grass still green in the foreground and yellowish hills rising irregularly — | toward a soft gray sky. To right of centre in the middle distance a white farmhouse with a brownish-red roof lies in the midst of the fields, which are scattered over with small trees of little or no foliage, what there is being dark yellow in tone. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. | Height, 24 inches; length, 36 inches | Illustrated | vr | cf EARLY NOVEMBER e : | A day of the gray and melancholy season is warmed by russet and orange hues in the edge of a wood on the left, which impinges upon a rugged open space that rises gently toward the right under a gray and foreboding sky. The land is grayish-green and brownish and is marked by gray boulders and dark brown patches. A day of saddened poesy and melancholy charm. — Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. _ Height, 24 inches; length, 36 inches 116 FARM LANDS Catalogue No. 277 279. 28 0. oe “sky of light gray, intensified by clouds of darker hue. Signed at the lower EARLY AUTUMN Dark grayish clouds shot with eites. of creamy-white ones overhang a ‘ j peaceful American landscape in a somewhat wild country, the wavy surface — of the ground coated with grass still green and marked by areas of russet- a yellow. Broad surfaces of dark gray-brown rocks reflect the light, in spots, “i and on the right are clumps of low dark brown brush. At left near the ? 3 foreground is the corner of a wood, with a few low trees outstanding and pushing their sparse foliage toward the sky. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny. . a Height, 24 inches; length, 36 inches — [ [Zlustrated | : | By THE OLD LOG An old log, the remains of an anciently. felled tree, lies in the left Re ground amid other ancient debris, on ground covered by lush grass and | traversed by shallow depressions. Rocks here and there project and in the — . distance low flat banks arise. Leafage of a tree of dense foliage projects. into the picture from the left, above the old log, and in the middle distance _ i ia are sundry detached trees also of generous foliage. Over the landscape Pe left, J. Francis Murpny. : Height, 24 inches; length, 36 inches 118 i bdr Pos peed ive) ss ARENSON CE Peale AU TOO M.N 2719 Catalogue No. 281. 3/ &0.- : 9.50% a Sil ground. In front of it four slender saplings stand, detached, with varyi THE FOUR TREES On the right is the sloping edge of a Te thick woods, dark against — grayish sky, and its dense leafage shadowing the dull green grass of the fo tufts of gray-green and dull russet foliage. To left the level ground : interrupted by a low and broad yellowish knoll. A simple composition, — dominated by the four slender trees of the title. ‘Sioned at the lower left, — J. Francis Naan eB) | ae = a Height, 24 inches; length, 36 inc [ I/lustrated | THE VISTA ae as Caasd- eee through woodland, with indications of ae labor at ‘mame hand and a surface glory of quiet color. ‘The vista which the eye Regetet joe a right and ee of the clear lane are woodland trees close in their inhi an exhibiting foliage of rich russet hues. “The russet is relieved by gray notes of the trunks of detached trees, at either hand, and across the vista, in the nearer middle distance, hes a felled or fallen log, the major portion of a 5 tree, gray on the russet sward. At the right, on the incline of the ground, © gray rocks are outcropping, and the whole is observed through a light autumn » haze. One of Mr. Murphy’s best productions, at the height of one of his — best periods of painting. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy, IQI4. Height, 30 inches; length, 36 inches E20 Sieist op te) Wate Lak, be Catalogue No. 281 ~~. Pee 8 Pe oe! lt eee 283. RUSSET SEASON Oe a A painting in which the sky is; erectlere noticeable fa 7 of its lights amid its dominant gray. Occupying almos it overspreads a landscape in which the pent ones all 22 & o-0. _ greens in the herbage. ‘The surface of the ground ~ quiet expanse is broken ts eS a gray tree e with ae ie tertiles ane ete ree Orem, a large gray Boulder left, Jk RANCIS Murpny. [ I ae os . | 122 Polto oy ie EAS OLN Catalogue No. 283 norcbct, YLhrrnuss 284. A GROUP OF TREES ‘Twin trees stand detached in the right et before a dark copse, above which trees of russet and dark greenish foliage spread their limbs before a dark grayish sky. Their foliage mingles with the dark green foliage of another tree which rises above a more luxuriant growth of the copse, near ~ ) 3 CO _the centre of the composition. Bordering the edge of the copse, on the left, — : "are shorter and more slender trees. “The whole in the midst of green, uncul- tivated fields lying in a subdued light, slightly more intensified in the left — = foreground. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy. ‘i ‘ Height, 24 inches; length, 36 inches [ Illustrated | | r , JE the 285. EARLY pone 7 be L_ Summer bursting into its full greenery of grass and trees, the foreground and — 4 middleground a smooth sward of soft green, and at the left of the middle — distance a green copse of shallow growth. At right the edge of a wood Ayre Locke projects into the picture, reaching nearly to the centre of the composition. The foliage in the wood edge is dense at its beginning, thinning out as it approaches its finish. Beyond all is a sky of soft gray, gently modulated. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny, 1913. Height, 30 inches ; length, 36 inches 124 Pree) eb) Pal RE ELS 284 Catalogue No. Bele ia pi in cena anda ‘worn n green is the pidge carpet. in the foliage of a group of trees which occupy ‘the? centr ete A F 0. ~The | trees have ua co and fare pee oy C2 oh ee ch me ath ae of saw y and axe. de Francis Morrny. => “+ [Illustrated] oo “Swap ea j 126 a ole eVvisN. Catalogue No. 286 eae 288. G50 MRR ain PO as ii Gray buildings/ with dark roofs in the middle distance on the right back up against a hillside covered with autumn trees, receding into the distance under a grayish sky of light clouds. From the distant left comes sunlight strong enough to throw upon the green surface of harvested land the shadows of two slim trunks of trees in the central foreground, their high leafage not visible within the limits of the picture. In the left foreground is a short gray stump which also casts its small shadow. Back of the trees and before the cottages is a yellow haystack beside a black-roofed barn. Signed — at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny. Height, 24 inches; length, 36 inches [ [llustrated | AUTUMN WOODS Brilliant in sunlight, without direct sunshine, autumn woods are glorious in their mellow coloring, surrounding an open space in the foreground which is carpeted with mellow-tinted leaves among which notes of a pale gray- green appear. The hue of the woods dominates the scene, the woods dense on both sides with leafage of ripe orange-russet and yellow hues, re- lieved by slender grayish trunks of outstanding trees and the richness of a single tree with a canopy of deep red foliage. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy, 1912. | 3 beck Height, 36 inches; width, 34 inches 128 e ae ae t Ca i ee ee tie Ark 287 Catalogue No. 289. A700. WOODS CLEARING Woods manifestly havebeen a aiiiaenihe fedture of the landscape and have been for the most part cleared away. At left in the middle distance a corner of a wood still standing projects into the picture and is illumined by sunshine from the right, the grayish trunks dappled with the hght. ‘Their tops rise above the picture limits, and behind them the sunlight falls upon a rising yellowish bank of land. At their foot a felled trunk lies upon the level foreground, and toward the centre of the composition the remnant of a gnarled trunk still standing rises against the sky. Leaves from the top branches of a copse on the right come into view, wavering over a patch of red in the underbrush. A vigorous presentation of the outer silent world, with mute evidences of the presence of man. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis MurpuHy, 1914. | Height, 30 inches; length, 36 inches | [Zlustrated | 130 CLEARING WOODS 289 Catalogue No. 260, . DHE EVENING TRAIN A record of a moment approaching twilight at a village of scattered houses lying along the base of a bare and rounded hill. The hill rises to near the top of the canvas at left of centre of the picture, its crest reddened by the late rays of the declining sun, which also suffuse with crimson touches the a a One gray-white sky that presides over the landscape. ‘The treeless hill is marked into irregular fields by hedge lines, and at the foot of the slope the scattered __ 4 houses of the village display their white-painted sides and dark brown roofs in the dimming light. To right of centre in the middle distance stands — ~the great shed of the railway station, where a train stands with a white © cloud of steam issuing from the locomotive. Near by in the green and brownish fields of the foreground stands a solitary tree. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy, 1914. ; Height; Sol inches; lenge 41 inches [ Illustrated | Pst 199, Sole Geb 2b | Qu7 ioe ei cE V-E-NcDN'G -F RAIN Catalogue No. 290 291. ee ee b50.- 202, Gray weather of autumn, suffused with a screened sunlight beneath a dense white sky. Green, even of bright note, has not vanished from the landscape, and is seen in strips of field between patches of brown and occasional brownish stumps. It persists in rolling land of the right foreground, near the base of dead trees whose trunks rise stark against the white sky. ‘To the right | beyond them is a slight copse, and in middle distance toward the left are two yellowish trees of massed foliage standing in the semi-obscurity of an atmospheric haze. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy, 1912. Height, 30 inches; length, 36 inches | Illustrated | Wr, Vite. flav ypT A BRAY=DAY Over vast spaces of marshland which may or may not be near the sea broods the misty calm of a gray day, when the hazy atmosphere seems to blend with | the sky of the same tone, one of gray calm. ‘The land is irregular, with upheavals as of the sea displaying varying growths of coarse marsh grass and — flag, and in the central foreground a bit of a pool. Back of it in middle distance a single slender tree rises on a bank of dune land, a neighbor standing © well to left of it. Again at the left of the composition stand two trees of sturdier growth, their gray trunks outstanding, and having as a near neighbor ~ a slight tree of feathery foliage, all the foliage brownish in tone, above the grayish-brown of the marsh growths. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis MuRPHY. - Height, 27 inches; length, 41 inches 134 ones Wel As Lalli, 291 Catalogue No. 293- SPRING J green foliage massed within the wood ‘proper and at the lower left, dh pagent Morpuy, ton. Sunshine in he. tends Sani: ae oe “spring, wl len clouds are just sufficiently dense to filter t the sun’s r the impact of shadows on the grass. Broad fields of gee ar the foreground and toward the right, and seem : | their distant crest to the far horizon. ‘These are cut : by depression lines and in the distance by scraggly field in the middle distance the edge of a green. wood aes sunlight, which is shared by two or three d ieee 136 Seek igN-G - 293 gue No alo at C ia (294. LOWLANDS ~ Meadow lands with grass a gray yi 3 under a whitish-gray sky eee yn work: up green of the rough and wild turf and makes eee L landscapes - . Tn the eo Py transverse ie eof ue LOWLANDS Catalo 294 gue No. e/ 550 against ae ae ee a in ine sites Menor. of ee mellowness of the atmosphere increased by the wart — autumnal herbage, which distributes a soft and dull glow over ‘The land declining to the foreground is marked here and _ grayish stump, and in the middle distance toward the right of thin brownish leafage, one of their number with. denser at the ie es J. Francis BEY ‘191 is \ [I hae a 140 Pere Ha atalogue No. 295 r e 296. / 500. An early morning glimpse. of an autumnal countryside, un a rather high horizon, a rounding hill at the left carrying: th EARLY MORNING | tc Ee ieee sky of grayish-white tone. The land ascends slowly from the somewhat higher. In a hollow cman the left, near the fo and near the foreground it Is Fomogr a a transverse ‘rail fence ae screen of saplings rendered practically transparent | by the spar. ene ss of pices Sigurd at the lower left, J. FRANCIs Morpny, : ee: “eet ake Mustrated ed 142 Baek NGLN: Gr Catalogue No. 296 Pack Y¥ ee ee saith it : BRR ar rus . ce howin a bit of a flaming bush. Part way up the il in oO right, sycamore trees are growing, their trunks — on. beginnings of their branchings and displaying the sl peeled silvery wood with the soft brown of the lower left, abe. F RANCIS Murry. a oe ae 144 * on ie NM ea oe O = < O va MN 207 gue No. Catalo 298. if yes Te KY, Altix THE SPROUT LOT | An atmosphere of the declining year prevails over a considerable extent, of stubble land, its surface uneven, a russet-brown in tone, here and there light- ened by notes of green retained in the withering grass. “The sky is a wan ~ grayish-white, with faint suggestions of the blue beyond. At left the edge of a wood juts into the picture, in middle distance, the fast-yellowing treetops rising above the picture limits. An outpost sapling of sparse foliage leans toward the centre of the composition, bowing over an uprooted stump. Toward the right the line of the sapling is continued by a broken line of — other saplings, some raising their twisted trunks bare toward the sky, others displaying small bunches of yellowing leafage. Signed at the lower right, J. Francis Murpnuy, 1915. Height, 27% inches; length, 41% inches Exhibited at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh [ [Zlustrated | 298 Catalogue No. ere ROU oe LOGE = ‘ See SA tel eee a —ae _ —E——— fn —e al _ Za Veo 299. 300. OCTOBER WOODS Across a somewhat uneven, slightly rolling foreground the withering grass is brownish, with here and there a patch retaining some fading green. A bunch of small*logs partly stacked as for a field fire is at right of centre in the foreground, and beyond it the trunk of a felled tree is lying, extending out of the picture. At left and extending to the background, on rising land, — is the edge of an open wood, the trees retaining some of their yellowish- brown foliage, the hue warmed by an occasional reddish touch. ‘The grayish- white sky presiding over all seems to partake of the hues of the declining year. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy, 1910. Height, 27% inches; length, 4 inches | Illustrated | r¢ cy SAPLINGS Under a lively sky suggesting a windstorm rolling reaches of wild land are portrayed in a lively manner and with vigor. ‘The land is covered with grass of a pale green which is dotted with patches of reddish color and interrupted ever and anon by protruding stones and upstanding short stumps of trees. Across this land, in an irregular transverse line, extends a row of saplings and scraggly brush, almost without leaves but exhibiting here and there touches of rosy color. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpuy, 1912. Height, 27 inches; length, 44 inches ie ie) rei) We CCDS Catalogue No. 299 THER EDav ie Rear Catalogue No. 302 3o1. SPRING, NEW be RSEY, 2, ake A note of a fine day in the spring of the Centennial year, a day of sunshine with a light grayish sky. Apple trees of deep green are grouped in the fore- ground, their foliage percolated by sunshine which dapples the ground with their shadows and their leafage sprinkled with the bright notes of blossoms. / Io : In the background a tree of rosy hue comes into view. Signed at the lower | left, J. F. Murpny. Height, 8 inches; length, 10 inches tet oe KK Je brre =) ~ Lon In this canvas the painter strikes a brighter and more cheering note, in dis- tinction from the suave melancholy presiding over many of his autumnal records. It is none the less a faithful transcript of the autumn season, a gay display of finery during the declining year. ‘The red tree, tall, slender eo) and brilliant, stands in a slight gully of the left foreground, at the base of a massive hill. Flanking the scarlet column are smaller trees of bright yellow leafage, and the group rises from the shaded green of a patch of -herbage whose low tone is almost the only contrast in wild fields of soft and glowing yellow. Even patches of brush in the middle distance toward the right partake of the soft yellow of their ground. ‘The sky above 1s a mass of nebulous white screening the blue, and contributes to the haze of the softly glowing atmosphere. Signed at the lower left, J. Francis Murpny, 1912. 302. Height, 36 inches; length, 40% inches [ Illustrated | [END OF SECOND AND LAST SESSION] 151 a hi rd alec eauenlon eee APPRAISALS FOR NET ED STATES 6 STATE TAX INSURANCE & OTHER PURPOSES ; CATALOGUES OF PRIVATE COLLECTIONS CKTEAP,_» HE American cArt Association, Inc. will furnish appraisements, made by experts under its direct supervision, of art and literary property and all personal effects, in the settlement of estates, for inheritance tax, insurance and other purposes. 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