Art Wanted

Elliott Daingerfield

Elliott Daingerfield (1859 - 1932) was active/lived in New York, North Carolina.  Elliott Daingerfield is known for Poetic landscape and visionary-religious mural painting.

Image copyrigtht by J.K. McKinley, 1922

Born in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, Elliott Daingerfield was a talented watercolorist who earned a strong reputation while very young but was most known for his depictions of the Grand Canyon which he first visited in 1911.

He painted his colorful, mystical landscapes from memory, and his oil painting, The Genius of the Canyon brought $15,000. in 1920.  Likely this was the highest price paid to date for a work by a living painter.  Completed in 1913, it resulted from his being part of a Santa Fe Railroad sponsored trip to the Grand Canyon of eastern artists.  He regarded modernist artists as "anti God" and railed against them.  He later had a studio at Carmel, California and frequently traveled into Arizona from there to paint the Canyon.

He was raised and educated in Fayetteville, North Carolina.  At age 21, he moved to New York City to study with George Inness Sr. and Walter Satterlee at the Art Students League. Inness became   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8807 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 181 auction lots for Elliott Daingerfield (of which 157 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 5 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Elliott Daingerfield as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Elliott Daingerfield in 2 of its research Essays. Elliott Daingerfield has 21 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Elliott Daingerfield available:    William Charles Anthony Frerichs,  Will Henry Stevens,  Hobson Lafayette Pittman,  Francis Speight,  Alfred Hutty,  Addison (Thomas Addison) Richards,  Elizabeth Quale O'Neill Verner,  Thomas Sully,  Eliot Candee Clark,  William Aiken Walker,  James McLean,  Lawrence Mazzanovich,  Emil Holzhauer,  Ralph Albert Blakelock,  William Louis Sonntag Sr,  William Lester Stevens,  Wayman Elbridge Adams,  John Francis Murphy,  Andrew John Henry Way,  John James Laforest Audubon,  Charles Courtney Curran,  Edward B Gay,  George Biddle,  Alexander Helwig Wyant