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Samuel Colman

Samuel Colman (1832 - 1920) was active/lived in New York, California, Maine.  Samuel Colman is known for Landscape, animal, genre and botanical painting.

A significant landscape painter of the second generation of Hudson River School painters, Samuel Colman traveled widely and eventually went far beyond the Hudson River for subject matter.  He created many large canvases of European, United States, Canadian, and Mexican subjects, especially scenes along the Hudson River and the White Mountains of New Hampshire.  He also traveled to North Africa in the 1870s, and one of his most impressive works, The Moorish Mosque of Sidi Halou, Tlemcen, Algeria (1875) is in the Edna Barnes Solomon collection of the New York Public Library.

He was a full member of the National Academy of Design and lived long enough to see attention to his work eclipsed by that given to modernism.  He was a key person in establishing watercolor as an independent medium that was good for more than just sketching.

Colman was born and raised in Portland, Maine, and early moved to New York City, where his father, a publisher   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7718 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Research resources

.  askART lists Samuel Colman in 3 of its research Essays. Samuel Colman has 25 artist signature examples available in our database.

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