OLIVE PARKER BLACK
American (New York / Massachusetts) 1868-1948
“STREAM THROUGH A SUMMER LANDSCAPE”
Oil on Canvas
Signed l.r. O.P. Black
Housed in the original carved giltwood frame
Museums: Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Books: 21
Selected Exhibitions:
National Academy of Design 1897/1898, Boston Art Club, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Carnegie Institute,
Copley Society, National
Association Women Artists,
Vose Galleries-Boston
Note:
Olive Parker Black is best known as a landscape painter of the Northeastern United States. Her Hudson River school paintings
also incorporated the influence of her teachers: Barbizon from Hugh Bolton Jones at the Art Students League; free brushwork
and impressionism from William Merritt Chase at the New York National Academy of Design (and probably Shinnecock). She
was considered one of Chase's best students. Usually quite evident in Black's work are atmospheric effects of the season and time of day.
She exhibited at the National Academy of Design from 1897 to 1930, and in Boston with the Boston Art Club, and in
Philadelphia at the Art Club of Philadelphia. In 1910, she moved from her native Cambridge, Massachusetts to New York
City, where she exhibited at the National Academy of Design (1897 to 1930). She also exhibited at the Carnegie Institute.
She was a member of the National Association of Women Artists, the National Academy of Design, the New York
Society of Painters, American Artists Professional League and the Copley Society in Boston.
After moving from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to New York City in 1910, Olive Parker Black continued to summer at
South Egremont, Massachusetts, where she painted many of her finest rural landscapes - many with streams weaving
through the grassy pastoral countryside. "Stream Through a Summer Landscape" is an exceptional example, quite similar
to "Winding Stream" we offered last year, and perhaps depicts the same scene from a different viewpoint.
Image Size: 16.25'' x 24.25''
Price : Please Inquire
#5878
Click below to view another Olive Parker Black
of the same setting from a closer vantage point:
Oil on Canvas
Signed l.r. Olive P. Black; Titled Verso
Image Size: 14” x 20”
OLIVE PARKER BLACK, 1868-1948
Birth: 1868 (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Death: 1948
Lived/Active: New York
Often Known For: landscape, still life
An accomplished landscape painter, Olive Black was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She studied art with
Hugh Bolton Jones at the Art Students League and with William Merritt Chase and Edwin Blashfield at the New York
National Academy of Design in New York. She was considered one of Chase's best students, also attending the
Shinnecock Summer
School of Art (which became known as Chase's school and was primarily
attended by women).
Black became best known for painting landscapes of the eastern United
States, from Maryland to West Virginia and
north to the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts. Her landscapes fuse the influences of the Hudson River
School with the free brushwork of impressionism. The Barbizon influence of her mentor Hugh Bolton Jones also echoes
strongly in her work. Seasonal effects, as well as the light and time of day are depicted in her pastoral and rural scenes.
She exhibited at the National Academy of Design from 1897 to 1930 and also exhibited in Boston and Philadelphia.
To 1910, she lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts and then moved to New York City where she exhibited at the National
Academy of Design from 1897 to 1930. She also exhibited with the Boston Art Club, the Art Club of Philadelphia
and the Carnegie
Institute.
Black lived in New York City, then in Cambridge,
and retained a summer home in South Egremont.
She was a member of the
National Association of Women Artists, the New York Society of painters, American Artists Professional League
and the Copley Society in Boston.
Museums:
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Exhibited:
National Academy of Design 1897 / 1898
Society of American Artists
Boston Art Club
Art Club of Philadelphia
Carnegie Institute
American Artists
Professional League
Copley Society
National Association Women Artists
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Vose Galleries-Boston
Member:
National Association of Women Artist in America
Copley Society
National Academy of Design
American Artists
Professional League
Boston Art Club
Studied:
Art Students League of
New York with Hugh Bolton Jones
National Academy of Design with William Merritt Chase and Edwin Blashfield
Shinnecock
Summer School with William Merritt Chase
Collections:
Louise and Alan
Sellars Collection
Sellars Collection
Books (21):
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson, The Artists Bluebook 2005
Davenport, Ray, Davenport's Art Reference
Vose Galleries of Boston, Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors, Volume XI
Jarzombek, Nancy Allyn, Boston Art Club: Guide for Collectors
Falk, Peter Hastings, Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975
Sternberg, Paul E, Art by American Women: Collection Louise and Alan Sellars
Falk, Peter Hastings, Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design1901-1950
Sternberg, Paul E, Centennial Exhibition 1889-1989: Members National Association Women Artists
Schwarz-Philadelphia, American and European Paintings
Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Falk, Peter Hastings, Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram
Opitz, Glenn B, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary- American Painters, Sculptors, Engravers
Falk, Peter Hastings, Who Was Who in American Art, Artists Active 1898-1947
Petteys, Chris, Dictionary of Women Artists, International Dictionary of Women
Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists
Naylor, Maria, Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design
Collins, Jim L, Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
Cohen, Mildred, Tonalism: An American Interpretation of Landscape
Mallett, Daniel, Trowbridge Index of Artists International Biographical
E. Benezit Dictionnaire
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