M. FORD CREECH ANTIQUES
 

ROBERT HOGG NISBET

American (1879-1961)

 

“APPLE BLOSSOMS”

Oil on masonite

 signed lower right

 

Museums: 15, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Smithsonian American Art Museum; National Gallery of Art;

Brooklyn Museum; Butler Institute of American Art; Detroit Museum; The Mattatuck Museum of the Mattutuck Historical Society;

U.S. National Museum

 

Periodicals: 3, American Art Review, 1997, 2003 and 2006

 

Books: 27, including Artists of the Litchfield Hills, Austin;  Art for the New Collector, Spanierman Gallery;

Art Across America (East), Gerdts;  Tranquil America: A Century of Painting, 1840-1940; Spanierman Gallery

 

Note: Nisbet is a member of the Kent (CT) School of painters, along with Willard Metcalf, Ernest Lawson, Emil Carlsen and his

son, Dines Carlsen.  The “Kent School” painters are just coming into their own in status and price.  This is an outstanding example of

Nesbit’s work, comparable in excellence to his highest selling canvas to date.

 

Image size: 25 x 30

 

SOLD

 

#5116

 

 

oTHER pAINTINGS BY robert hogg nisbet:

 

"WINDSWEPT AUTUMN AFTERNOON"

 

 

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NISBET, Robert Hogg (1879-1961)

 

Birth place: Providence, RI

Death place: South Kent, CT

Addresses: NYC; South Kent, CT

Profession: Painter, etcher, teacher, printmaker

 

Studied: Rhode Island School of Design; Art Students League with Henry Snell & Frank DuMond; Europe.

 

Exhibited: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Annual; 1906-10, 1915-17, 1922-15; Art Institute of Chicago; Kent Art

Academy; Connecticut Academy of Fine Art, 1913 (prize), 1915 (prize); Corcoran Gallery biennials, 1914-28 (3 times); National

Academy of Design, 1915 (prize), 1923 (prize), 1931 (prize); Pan-Pacific Expo, 1915 (medal); California Printmakers (prize); Los

Angeles Museum of Art, 1925 (prize); National Arts Club, 1927 (medal, prize); Living American Etchers, 1927-28; Society of

American Etchers , 1932 ( Talcott prize); Great Barrington, MA (prize).

 

Member: Associate National Academy, 1920, National Academy 1928; American Artists Professional League; NY Watercolor Club;

International Jury,  Italian Print Exhibition, 1931; Allied Artists America; Connecticut Academy of Fine Art; National Arts Club; Lotos Club;

Art Students League; Audubon  Artists; Washington Art Association (hon.); Salmagundi Club; Providence Art Club; Society of American

Graphic Artists; Artists Fund Society; Artists  Fellowship; Kent Art Association (Emeritus); Architects League (Emeritus); Philadelphia

Society of Etchers ; American Watercolor Society.

 

Work: Rhode Island School of Design; Rhode Island Hospital; Telfair Academy of Art; Butler Art Institute; Connecticut State

Agricultural College; Rhode Island State College; National Arts Club; Lotos Club; Sherman (CT) Library; Metropolitan Museum of Art;

New York Public Library; Brooklyn Museum; Milwaukee Art Institute; Detroit Institute of Art; University of Nebraska; Oberlin College;

Art Council, NY; Yale University; Bibliothèque Nat.,  Paris; National Gallery of Art; Library of Congress; Montclair Art Museum;

Howard University; Detroit Museum; U.S. National Museum; Birmingham (AL)  Public Library; University of Connecticut;

Stockbridge (MA) Public Library; Wesleyan University, Macon, GA; Litchfield Historical Society; Pennsylvania  State University;

Springfield Museum Art; Hamilton Art Gallery, Canada.

 

Sources: WW59; WW47; Falk, Exhibition Record Series.

 

This biography is drawn from the "Who Was Who in American Art" , the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.

 

Museums (15):

Brooklyn Museum Butler Institute of American Art Detroit Museum Florence Griswold Museum Hamilton Art Gallery, Canada Metropolitan Museum of Art Montclair Art Museum

National Gallery of Art Saint Joseph College Art Gallery Smithsonian American Art Museum Springfield Museum Art; Telfair Museum of Art The John H. Vanderpoel Art Association The Mattatuck Museum of the Mattutuck Historical Society U.S. National Museum

 

 

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